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...
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...
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...
ISLAMABAD / KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday declared former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s arrest in a corruption case illegal, ordering his immediate release. A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial, hearing a petition seeking the ex-premier’s release asked Khan to approach the Isl...
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israel continued its attacks on Gaza Thursday, the third day of the worst escalation of violence in months that has killed 25 people in the blockaded Palestinian enclave. Air strikes by the Israeli army since Tuesday have killed fighters as well as civilians, including several children, said officials ...
