KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA): Heavy clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) rocked the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Tuesday, according to residents. Sounds of artillery shelling were heard in several neighborhoods. Armed clashes were also reported in Kadro district, 25 kilometres (15 miles) away from Khartoum. There were no reports...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): For one month, Sudan’s capital has been a desolate war zone where terrorized families huddle at home as gun battles rage. Residents of Khartoum have endured weeks of desperate shortages of food and basic supplies, power blackouts, communications outages and runaway inflation. The capital of five million, long a pla...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan’s Supreme Court has postponed until May 23 a crucial review petition by the country’s top election authority asking the apex court to review its earlier verdict of holding elections in the most populous Punjab province. The hearing began a day after the Election Commission of Pakistan failed to hold...
ANKARA (AA): Israel and Palestinian groups in Gaza on Saturday agreed to an Egyptian-mediated cease-fire. Egyptian media including Al-Qahera News TV quoted Egyptian sources as confirming both sides’ commitment to the cease-fire proposal. “In light of the agreement of both sides, Egypt announces a cease-fire between the Palestinian and th...
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israeli air strikes battered Gaza on Saturday as deadly fighting resumed after a night of relative calm, despite efforts to secure a truce. A new ceasefire proposal was circulated late Friday by Egypt, which has been mediating between the two sides, after a previous bid fell through, a Palestinian sour...
WASHINGTON (AA): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed Friday an agreement between Sudan’s warring generals to allow for the safe flow of humanitarian assistance in the country, but emphasized the need for a wider truce. “While humanitarian workers, most notably local partners, have continued to deliver in very difficult c...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA): Israel’s fresh airstrikes on Friday killed two more Palestinians in the blockaded Gaza Strip, pushing the total death toll in four days to 33. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, an Israeli air strike which hit a residence in al-Nasr neighborhood of Gaza, killed two Palestinians and injured five. As Israeli...
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...
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israel and fighters in Gaza traded heavy fire Friday as hopes faded of securing a truce to end days of fighting that have killed dozens, all but one of them Palestinian. The violence has been met with international calls for de-escalation, with the European Union pushing Thursday for an “immediat...
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...
