Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Multiple nations have scrambled to evacuate embassy staff and citizens by road, air and sea from chaos-torn Sudan, where fighting between the army and paramilitaries has killed hundreds. Rescue operations intensified Tuesday as a 72-hour ceasefire took effect, but gunfire still rang out in the capital Khartoum. Some evac...
Kabal, Pakistan (AFP): The death toll from a series of explosions caused by a fire in a munitions cache in a Pakistan police station rose to 16 on Tuesday, police said. The explosions levelled the specialist counter-terrorism station in Kabal town of Swat Valley, in the northwestern region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which neighbours Afghanistan. Sw...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (AFP): About 60 civilians were killed in a village in northern Burkina Faso by men wearing military uniforms, the local prosecutor said late Sunday, announcing an investigation into the latest bloodshed in the insurgency-hit country. Landlocked and in the heart of West Africa’s Sahel, the country is one of the w...
Paris, France (AFP): On April 24, 2013, a clothing factory complex near Bangladesh’s capital collapsed, killing at least 1,138 workers. The disaster at Rana Plaza outside Dhaka was one of the world’s worst industrial tragedies and highlighted the failure of many top Western fashion brands to protect workers in the poorer countries ...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye has expressed concern over the arrest of Tunisia’s Ennahda Party leader Rached Ghannouchi and said a democratic transition process based on a broad consensus involving all segments of society can be “successful” in Tunisia. About the arrest of Ghannouchi, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement that such ac...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group announced a 72-hour humanitarian truce starting from 6 a.m. local time Friday, saying it coincides with the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. “The truce coincides with the blessed Eid al Fitr…and to open human...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called on the Sudanese army and paramilitary forces to immediately stop the fighting. The call came after a meeting convened by the African Union to discuss the dramatic situation in Sudan where at least 270 people have been killed and 2,600 others injured in clashes...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US is increasing the number of troops it has deployed to East Africa as the Biden administration prepares for a potential evacuation of its embassy staff in Sudan, the Pentagon said Thursday. Defense Department spokesperson Lt. Col. Phil Ventura said US Africa Command “is monitoring the situation in Sudan and ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group has denied the presence of its personnel in Sudan, where fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) rages on. “Due to the large number of inquiries from various foreign media about Sudan, most of which are provocative, we find it necessary to infor...
N’Djamena, Chad (AFP): Around 320 Sudanese soldiers have fled the fighting raging in their country to neighbouring Chad, the country’s defence minister said Wednesday. “They arrived in our territory, were disarmed and detained” on Sunday, General Daoud Yaya Brahim told a press conference, saying the troops feared being ...
