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 ...
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 ...
ANKARA (AA) – Saudi Arabia has invited head of the Syrian regime, Bashar al-Assad, to attend the Arab League summit for the first time since the country’s civil war began in 2011. The Syrian presidency said al-Assad received an invitation from Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz to attend the summit in the city of Jeddah […]
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...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistani authorities on Wednesday ordered the deployment of the army in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces due to ongoing demonstrations against the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. The federal Interior Ministry approved the provincial caretaker governments’ requests for troops to maintain law and ...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Loud explosions again rocked greater Khartoum on Wednesday, as fighting between Sudan’s warring generals showed no let-up despite talks in Saudi Arabia. “We were woken by explosions and heavy artillery fire,” one resident of Khartoum’s sister city of Omdurman told AFP. During the night, two huge e...
