Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Gun battles and air strikes on Sunday again flared in Sudan’s capital, which has been rocked by four weeks of fighting despite the latest ceasefire efforts backed by Saudi Arabia and the United States. Multiple truce deals have been declared and quickly violated since fighting erupted between army and paramilitary ...
ISTANBUL (AA) — The UN has warned that nearly 19 million Sudanese will suffer from food insecurity because of ongoing fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group. The World Food Program (WFP) expects that the “number of acutely food insecure people in Sudan will increase by between two and 2.5 [&hellip...
ANKARA (AA) – The official vehicle of Türkiye’s ambassador to Sudan was hit by gunfire on Saturday, as fighting continued between the army and a paramilitary group in the capital Khartoum and its surroundings. No casualties were reported and the source of the gunfire that hit Ismail Cobanoglu’s vehicle was unclear, said Turki...
London, United Kingdom (AFP): A UK court on Friday jailed Nigeria’s former deputy Senate president for nine years and eight months, following his landmark conviction for plotting to harvest a man’s kidney for his sick daughter. In the first UK case of its kind, judge Jeremy Johnson handed Ike Ekweremadu, 60, the prison sentence for...
GENEVA (AA) – Some 4.3 million people in northeast Nigeria are likely to face severe hunger during the lean season from June to August, the UN warned on Friday. Jens Laerke, the spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), told a UN weekly press briefing that the period between harvests, […]
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Air strikes and gunfire rocked the Sudanese capital Friday as fighting showed no signs of abating, despite the threat of renewed US sanctions and warnings of a “protracted” conflict. Hundreds have died including dozens of children in nearly three weeks of fighting between forces of Sudan’s de facto lead...
Bamako, Mali (AFP): Mali’s ruling junta announced Friday a referendum on a new constitution would be held in the west African nation on June 18. Government spokesman colonel Abdoulaye Maiga read out a decree on state television saying the country was called upon “to decide on the Constitution project” in June, after missing a...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): US President Joe Biden on Thursday threatened to impose new sanctions over Sudan’s conflict, saying the fighting “must end”, as gunfire and explosions rocked Khartoum for a 20th straight day. Hundreds of people have been killed in Sudan since battles began on April 15 between army chief Abdel Fattah al-...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN refugee agency said on Thursday it anticipates an outflow of 860,000 refugees and returnees from Sudan and that it will need $445 million from partners to sustain the displaced population until October. The Regional Refugee Response Plan for Sudan will primarily cover immediate support in Chad, South Sudan, Egypt, Et...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Armed clashes fiercely renewed on Thursday morning between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary forces in several areas in the capital Khartoum. Eyewitnesses told Anadolu that clashes were heard near the presidential palace and the Sudanese Army General Command in central Khartoum. In a statement, the Sudanese army sai...
