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...
ANKARA (AA) – France has vowed to continue efforts to expel irregular migrants from the island of Mayotte, one of its offshore territories in the Indian Ocean. “There is no date, and we will leave the number of police officers and gendarmes necessary for Mayotte to once again be a classic and magnificent island,” Interior [&h...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – At least 20,000 people have taken refuge in eastern Chad since clashes erupted in neighboring Sudan some two weeks ago, according to International Organization for Migration (IOM). “Most of the people who came to Chad need urgent humanitarian needs, such as food, water and accommodation,” IOM mission chief in ...
ANKARA (AA) – The Sudan Army has accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of opening fire on a Turkish plane in the north of the capital Khartoum. The army said in a statement that a Turkish C-130 military plane was hit by RSF fire while preparing to land at Wadi Seidna airport, causing fuel […]
KAYSERI, Ankara (AA) – A Turkish military plane evacuating citizens from Sudan landed safely at an airport despite gunfire, Türkiye’s national defense minister confirmed. “As part of plans to evacuate our citizens, one of our C-130 aircraft landed at Wadi Seidna Airport, north of (the capital) Khartoum. There was gunfire from...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Fighting raged in Sudan on Friday, despite rival forces agreeing to extend a truce aimed to stem nearly two weeks of warfare that has killed hundreds and caused widespread destruction. In the capital Khartoum, where foreign nations are scrambling to organise mass evacuations of their citizens, Turkey’s defence mini...
