ISTANBUL (AA): The World Food Program (WFP) and Egypt on Tuesday launched a safe humanitarian corridor to support thousands of Sudanese trapped by the conflict that has been raging in the country for more than two months. In a statement, WFP said the humanitarian corridor was opened between Aswan in southern Egypt and Wadi Halfa […]
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): France announced on Monday nearly 26 million euros (around $28 million) in aid to Tunisia to help curb the flow of irregular migrants across the Mediterranean. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced the “bilateral aid of 25.8 million dedicated to migration issues” during a visit to Tunis. It would ...
GENEVA (AA): The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned that essential services are at a breaking point in Sudan due to the ongoing conflict. “Two months into the conflict, hostilities in densely populated urban areas have taken a disastrous toll on civilian infrastructure, especially in locations in and around the capital ...
ISTANBUL (AA): Egypt and Jordan have condemned an Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin, during which five Palestinians were killed and 91 others injured. “These assaults will only . . . undermine efforts to ease tension in the occupied territories,” the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Jordan called for […]...
GENEVA (AA): Violence in Sudan against aid workers and attacks on civilian infrastructure and humanitarian supplies “must stop,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said. Guterres’ remarks came during his opening speech at the high-level Pledging Event to Support the Humanitarian Response in Sudan and the Region in Geneva, which he...
ISTANBUL (AA): In a neighborhood in northern Khartoum, a group of soldiers broke into a house and raped a woman while they held her husband at gunpoint. They also raped other women in the house, all of them refugees from Eritrea. In another area of Khartoum, two women were violently dragged out of a bus […]
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): A three-day ceasefire, which began on Sunday, appeared to have brought calm to the capital Khartoum on Monday. Several Khartoum residents told AFP they heard no air strikes, artillery or other fighting on Monday, a rare respite for the war-weary suffering shortages of medical care, electricity, water and other essentials...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA): At least 17 civilians, including five children, were killed, in an airstrike in south Khartoum, Sudanese activists reported on Sunday. The attack targeted a residential neighborhood in Mayo suburb in the Sudanese capital late Saturday, the South Belt Emergency Room said in a statement. Eleven people were also injured in t...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA): The deputy leader of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council has termed the situation in the country “catastrophic”. Sudan has been ravaged by clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since mid-April. “The situation in Sudan now is catastrophic,” Malik Agar said during a discussion at the Cairo-based E...
ANKARA (AA): Top US diplomat Antony Blinken is due to arrive in China on Sunday amid diplomatic tension between Washington and Beijing. Blinken will be the first US secretary of state to visit China since former top diplomat Mike Pompeo’s trip in 2018. The two sides will raise issues of bilateral concern, discuss global and […]
