ANKARA (AA) – More than 5.25 million people have been displaced by the ongoing fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, according to the United Nations. “Over 5.25 M people have been displaced within and outside Sudan since April when the conflict flared up,” said UN OCHA Sudan (Office […...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UN aid agency, OCHA, on Thursday called for $71.4 million to respond to the most urgent needs of thousands of people affected by the deadly floods in Libya. “The scale of the flood disaster is ‘shocking’ with entire neighborhoods having been wiped off the map and whole families, taken by […]
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – A woman was rescued from under the rubble six days after a devastating earthquake hit Morocco and caused huge damage to residential areas, search and rescue teams announced Thursday. Local sources told Anadolu that the woman was saved and pulled out of the rubble from a building in the village of […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US expressed alarm Wednesday over an increase in indiscriminate air and artillery strikes in Sudan, which have killed a large number of civilians. “The United States is alarmed by the recent increase of indiscriminate air and artillery strikes in Sudan, including in Khartoum, South Darfur and South Kordofan st...
Asni, Morocco — AFP When Moroccan earthquake survivor Khadija Temera was sent to a psychiatrist on Tuesday, she was just one of a hundred newly traumatised patients who would be seen within 24 hours. The powerful quake last Friday killed more than 2,900 people, most of them in remote villages of the High Atlas Mountains. […]
Tikht, Morocco — AFP It was delicate work for the searchers to remove the woman’s body from the rubble of a village that effectively ceased to exist in Morocco’s deadliest earthquake in over six decades. Her 25-year-old fiance Omar Ait Mbarek watched the digging Sunday with his eyes red and full of tears just kilometres [&hel...
Volker Türk, told Human Rights Council in Geneva that attacks had occurred in at least eight locations GENEVA, Switzerland – The head of the U. N’s human rights panel said Tuesday that hundreds of civilians have been killed in ethnically motivated attacks in Sudan’s West Darfur region. The attacks, perpetrated by Sudan’s para...
Derna, Libya – AFP Libya’s eastern city of Derna was counting its dead Wednesday after devastating flash floods unleashed by Storm Daniel with the Red Cross warning that 10,000 are missing. Two river dams burst after the storm hit on Sunday afternoon, releasing an enormous surge of water that tore through the Mediterranean coastal ...
Marrakesh, Morocco – AFP Rescue teams stepped up a massive effort to bring relief to devastated Moroccan mountain villages Wednesday as the chances faded fast for finding survivors from the powerful earthquake which killed 2,900 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless. Vehicles packed with supplies were inching up winding mountain...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden announced Tuesday that the US will send emergency funds to relief organizations for floods in Libya. The US president offered condolences to those who lost loved ones in the devastating floods. “In this difficult hour, the United States is sending emergency funds to relief organizations and coo...
