Netanyahu rejects 2nd phase of Gaza ceasefire
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Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): Donors at a UN conference on Monday pledged close to $1.5 billion to combat the humanitarian crisis in Sudan and help its neighbours host refugees fleeing the fighting. “Today, donors have announced close to $1.5 billion for the humanitarian response to Sudan and the region,” the UN’s humanitarian c...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA): A referendum vote on Mali’s new constitution has been marked by kidnappings of election officials and irregularities, a local observation mission reported after a poll noted that voter turnout was only 27%. More than 8 million Malians were called on Sunday to vote on the draft constitution proposed by the junta, wh...
GENEVA (AA): The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned that essential services are at a breaking point in Sudan due to the ongoing conflict. “Two months into the conflict, hostilities in densely populated urban areas have taken a disastrous toll on civilian infrastructure, especially in locations in and around the capital ...
BRUSSELS (AA): The EU expects Greece to conduct a “thorough and transparent” investigation into last week’s deadly migrant shipwreck near the shores of Kalamata. “We take note that the prosecutor has started an investigation on this incident. It is very important to ensure a thorough and transparent investigation,” Anitta Hipper, the European ...
GENEVA (AA): Violence in Sudan against aid workers and attacks on civilian infrastructure and humanitarian supplies “must stop,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said. Guterres’ remarks came during his opening speech at the high-level Pledging Event to Support the Humanitarian Response in Sudan and the Region in Geneva, which he...
ATHENS (AA): New revelations by both local and international media contradict Greek authorities’ account of last week’s migrant boat accident off southwestern Greece which led to the deaths of at least 78 migrants, including many children, with hundreds more missing and unlikely to be found. According to the log of the Greek Coast Guard boat [...
ISTANBUL (AA): In a neighborhood in northern Khartoum, a group of soldiers broke into a house and raped a woman while they held her husband at gunpoint. They also raped other women in the house, all of them refugees from Eritrea. In another area of Khartoum, two women were violently dragged out of a bus […]
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): A three-day ceasefire, which began on Sunday, appeared to have brought calm to the capital Khartoum on Monday. Several Khartoum residents told AFP they heard no air strikes, artillery or other fighting on Monday, a rare respite for the war-weary suffering shortages of medical care, electricity, water and other essentials...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): An attacker fatally stabbed a security guard on Monday outside Brazil’s embassy in Tunis before being shot and arrested, the Tunisian Interior Ministry said. The guard “was wounded by a sharp object” wielded “by a person he was questioning over the reason for his presence in the perimeter of the em...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA): At least 17 civilians, including five children, were killed, in an airstrike in south Khartoum, Sudanese activists reported on Sunday. The attack targeted a residential neighborhood in Mayo suburb in the Sudanese capital late Saturday, the South Belt Emergency Room said in a statement. Eleven people were also injured in t...
