KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA): The Sudanese capital Khartoum on Monday morning witnessed a cautious calm hours before a new cease-fire between the Sudanese warring parties. Since mid-April, the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been exchanging heavy fire, accusing each other of starting assaults. According to an Anadolu...
Washington, United States (AFP): Warring sides in Sudan have reached an agreement for a seven-day humanitarian ceasefire, the United States and Saudi Arabia said Saturday in a joint statement after talks in Jeddah. Representatives from both army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy turned rival Mohamed Hamdan Daglo vowed not to s...
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (AFP): One man is revered in Western capitals for standing up to Russia’s full-scale invasion of his country. The other is widely reviled for atrocities committed against his own people in a war that has made him dependent on Moscow. At the Arab League summit on Friday, host Saudi Arabia brought Ukrainian […]
ISTANBUL (AA): Qatar has condemned the storming and vandalising of its embassy in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, as clashes continue in the African nation between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group. In a statement, the Qatari Foreign Ministry said the embassy building was stormed by irregular armed forces. “T...
ISTANBUL (AA): Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit has said that Syria’s readmission does not mean the resumption of relations between Damascus and league members. On May 7, the Cairo-based Arab League reinstated Syria after 12 years of suspension over the regime’s brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests. “The decision to reinst...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA): Fierce clashes renewed on Thursday between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group despite their cease-fire talks in Saudi Arabia. Armed clashes were reported in al-Shaqilab district, south of Khartoum, and in Karari neighborhood in the city of Omdurman, according to witnesses. Forces of th...
On the occasion of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Nakba, numerous organizations and the United Nations (UN) came together to remember the historic event and emphasize the ongoing struggle faced by the Palestinian people. The Nakba, meaning “catastrophe” in Arabic, refers to the displacement and dispossession of hundreds of th...
GENEVA (AA): Some 843,130 people have been internally displaced since the start of the conflict in Sudan, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said. The IOM warned in a statement that 1.8 million more are expected to be internally displaced if the war persists. It noted that there were 1.1 million refugees and 3.8 […]
Cairo, Egypt (AFP): Sudan’s brutal war has pitted the traditional urban elite that has long monopolized wealth and power in the capital Khartoum against forces from the marginalized rural periphery, analysts say. For the past month, two rival generals have fought for control of the northeast African country in a war that has spread chaos...
Sittwe, Myanmar (AFP): Residents of Myanmar’s cyclone-ravaged Rakhine state capital queued for rice and drinking water on Wednesday as the United Nations negotiated with the internationally isolated junta for access to hard-hit areas. Cyclone Mocha tore through Myanmar and Bangladesh on Sunday, bringing lashing rain and winds of 195 kilo...
