Nairobi, Kenya (AFP): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday it was “absolutely essential” that the crisis in Sudan not spread beyond its borders and threaten democratic transitions and peace processes in neighbouring countries. Sudan has been rocked by violence since April 15 between the country’s de facto lead...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): A senior UN official in Khartoum on Wednesday demanded security guarantees for the delivery of aid as persistent fighting between Sudan’s rival generals undermined efforts to firm up a truce. The visit by top UN humanitarian official Martin Griffiths comes one day after neighbouring South Sudan announced that the w...
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Palestinian group Islamic Jihad announced a truce around Gaza Wednesday after trading fire with Israel following the death in Israeli custody of a hunger striker from its ranks. One Palestinian was killed and five wounded in pre-dawn air strikes Israel carried out in retaliation for rocket fire from Ga...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): The UN chief on Wednesday said “we failed” to stop war from erupting in Sudan, where persistent fighting between rival generals undermined efforts to firm up a truce. “The UN was taken by surprise” by the conflict, because the world body and others were hopeful that negotiations would be successfu...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): The UN on Monday warned that more than 800,000 people could flee fighting in Sudan, where gun battles and explosions again shook the capital in violation of the latest truce agreed between warring generals. The chaos and bloodshed, now in their third week, have already sparked an exodus of tens of thousands of […]...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Fierce fighting broke out again Monday between Sudan’s army and paramilitaries despite the formal extension of a truce, after the United Nations warned the humanitarian situation had reached “breaking point”. More than 500 people have been killed since battles erupted on April 15 between Sudan’s d...
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): The fighting in Sudan has forced a huge number of people to seek sanctuary in neighbouring countries. The picture is “very chaotic”, UNHCR refugee agency spokesman Matt Saltmarsh stated on Friday. “There are huge numbers of people moving inside the country but also moving towards the borders,”...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan, China and Japan have evacuated hundreds of their citizens from war-torn Sudan in recent days, officials say. The first charter flight carrying 343 Chinese nationals, evacuated from Sudan via Saudi Arabia, landed at the Beijing Capital International Airport, the state-run Global Times reported. On Thursday, the ...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Palestinians embraced at the Egyptian border with the blockaded Gaza Strip on Friday as students returned home after fleeing the violence in Sudan. Gaza’s Crossing and Border Authority said “172 students arrived in the homeland through the Rafah border crossing, as the first batch of students c...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Egypt has evacuated more than 5,300 citizens from conflict-torn Sudan since fighting broke out on April 15. In a written statement, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said the number of Egyptians evacuated from Sudan had reached 5,327, with around 2,600 evacuated on Thursday. A total of 23 planes took off from Egypt for [&hell...
