Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): Some 200,000 people have fled Sudan to escape fighting that erupted in mid-April, in addition to hundreds of thousands who have been displaced inside the country, the UN said Friday. “As violence in Sudan continues for a fourth week, nearly 200,000 refugees and returnees have been forced to flee the country, wi...
Dakar, Senegal (AFP): The Malian army reportedly executed at least 500 people during an operation assisted by French troops in central Mali in March 2022, it came to light in a report released on Friday by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. OHCHR “has reasonable grounds to believe that at least 500 people were […]
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AFP): Sudan’s warring military factions signed a commitment to respect humanitarian principles in their spiralling conflict late Thursday but they did not reach a ceasefire in talks described by US diplomats as difficult. Nearly one month after the eruption of violence that has killed more than 750 people, injured 5...
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): The United Nations top rights body narrowly decided Thursday to beef up monitoring of abuses amid Sudan’s spiralling conflict, despite vehement opposition from Khartoum. The UN Human Rights Council’s 47 members voted with 18 in favour, 15 opposed and 14 abstaining for a resolution calling for an end to th...
ANKARA (AA): The Turkish embassy personnel in Khartoum reached Port Sudan on Thursday amid fighting in the North African nation, said the Turkish foreign minister. Speaking to Turkish news broadcaster AHaber, Mevlut Cavusoglu said: “There are violent clashes in the neighborhood and the street where our embassy is located, we have decided to te...
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): The UN rights chief Thursday called on the international community to exert all possible pressure on the fighting sides in Sudan to resolve the conflict and end “the wanton violence”. The fighting has plunged “this much-suffering country into catastrophe”, United Nations High Commissioner for ...
Metema, Ethiopia (AFP): After a perilous three-day journey from conflict-torn Sudan, Muhamad Yusuf reached the Ethiopian border town of Metema. However, like so many who had fled the deadly chaos, his relief was clouded by anxiety. His immediate prospects were limited to a seemingly interminable wait in a makeshift camp in northwestern Ethiopi...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Fighting continues in the Sudanese capital and a city to the south, residents say, pushing more people to undertake dangerous journeys to safety across the country’s borders. Those unable to escape grapple with shortages of food and other essentials, surviving only thanks to Sudanese charity networks among friends ...
GENEVA (AA): The EU has launched a humanitarian air bridge to meet the rising needs of conflict-hit people in Sudan. Thirty tons of essential items, including water, sanitation and hygiene, as well as shelter equipment, were transported from the UN warehouses in Dubai to Port Sudan, a European Commission statement said. Upon arrival, they were...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): A Tunisian police officer shot dead four people at Africa’s oldest synagogue in an attack that sparked panic during an annual Jewish pilgrimage on the island of Djerba. He gunned down two visitors, including a French citizen, and two fellow officers before he was shot dead himself, the interior ministry said. Anothe...
