UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UN said on Friday that it is “extremely frustrating” to see the fighting going on despite the ceasefire in Sudan. Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group agreed to extend the humanitarian truce for 72 more hours starting from the end of the previous truce, but violenc...
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP): The United Nations has expressed concern over prison breaks and deepening impunity in Sudan as fighting continues, with a number of suspected war criminals taking advantage of the crisis to escape. Several jailbreaks, including of a high-security prison holding those suspected of war crimes, have taken place since vi...
ANKARA (AA) – Iran has seized Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, the US military claimed on Thursday. The vessel named ‘Advantage Sweet’, was “seized” by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) at approximately 1.15 p.m. local time “while transiting international waters in the Gulf of...
Istanbul, Turkey (AFP): Turkiye’s ailing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday emerged from a two-day absence and spoke by video link with Vladimir Putin at a virtual ceremony unveiling a Russian-built nuclear power plant. The 69-year-old leader suspended all campaigning for Turkiye’s pivotal May 14 election after getting sick...
Beijing, China – (AFP): Chinese navy ships sent to rescue citizens from conflict-hit Sudan have also evacuated nationals from five other countries, the foreign ministry in Beijing said. Multiple nations have scrambled to evacuate embassy staff and citizens by road, air and sea from Sudan, where fighting between the army and paramilitarie...
Cairo, Egypt (AFP): As Sudan has descended into chaos, hundreds of families are heading for Egypt on bumpy and harrowing 1,000-kilometre road trips through the desert, braving military checkpoints along the way. Some of those who have made it across the Egyptian border to safety spoke of their fears as the cramped buses, with infants […...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US confirmed Wednesday the death of a second American in Sudan. “We can confirm the death of a second American citizen yesterday. We extend our deepest condolences to the family,” White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters. Kirby said the leadership of the Sudanese armed forces ...
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (AFP): A ship carrying 1,687 civilians from more than 50 countries fleeing violence in Sudan docked in Saudi Arabia Wednesday, the foreign ministry said, the largest evacuation effort by the Gulf kingdom so far. Saudi Arabia has received several rounds of evacuees by air and sea since fighting broke out in Africa’s [...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Chad has dismissed as “false” a media report that the country has provided support to one of the warring factions in Sudan. The report, citing “a Chadian diplomatic source,” has recently been published. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs…wishes to formally deny this false information,” it said in a statement. The gove...
KIGALI, Rwanda/ DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – The death toll rose to more than 100 Tuesday from an attack last week by men dressed in military uniforms on a village in northern Burkina Faso. Residents calling themselves the Survivors of the Karma Attack said in a statement that the “cowardly and barbaric” killing in Yatenga province, […...
