WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden urged Congress on Wednesday to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act as the US marked the second anniversary of the ending of the Afghanistan war. The legislation aims to grant Afghans who sought refuge in the US due to the 2021 troop withdrawal the opportunity to seek permanent legal residency. […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is close to carrying out a military campaign against Lebanon, the country’s permanent delegate to the United Nations has warned. Israel is “the nearest to launching military action in Lebanon since the 2006 [war],” Gilad Erdan told Army Radio, citing what he called Hezbollah escalation along the border. The ...
ANKARA (AA) – The United Nations has allocated an additional $20 million for growing humanitarian needs in conflict-ridden Sudan. “As humanitarian needs soar in Sudan with critically low funding, I’ve approved an additional $20M from UNCERF [the UN emergency response fund],” UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said on soci...
GENEVA (AA) – Switzerland’s Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has submitted charges against former Algerian Defense Minister Khaled Nezzar of crimes against humanity committed during Algeria’s civil war between 1992 and 1994. The OAG charged 85-year-old Nezzar at the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, in the Swiss canton of Ticino,...
Port Sudan, Sudan – AFP Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan arrived Sunday in the coastal city of Port Sudan, an official statement said, as the country reels from over four months of war with paramilitaries. Armed forces have been fending off an unceasing offensive on the headquarters by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, led...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudan has condemned comments made by US Ambassador John Godfrey in which he said neither side in the current conflict “is fit to govern.” On Friday, Godfrey called on the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group to end their conflict and transfer power to civilians. “The belligerents, […...
Port Sudan, Sudan – AFP Fighting in Sudan showed no signs of abating Friday as the United Nations issued a dire warning over the impact of a war it said threatens to “consume” the country. Paramilitaries launched a renewed attack on a key armoured corps base in the capital’s south, witnesses said, which the army [&helli...
Geneva, Switzerland – – AFP War and hunger threaten to “consume” all of Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of malnourished children are at risk of dying, the UN has warned, decrying a dire lack of aid funding. After four months of a bloody power struggle between Sudan’s army and its former ally the paramilitary Ra...
Wad Madani, Sudan — AFP Sudan’s army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has been seen outside his headquarters for the first time since fighting erupted more than four months ago with paramilitaries, army videos showed. Some of the footage filmed before dawn on Thursday and posted on the army’s Facebook page showed Burhan s...
‘Scores of people have been killed and thousands displaced. Aid routes are blocked,’ says humanitarian chief WASHINGTON (AA) – The U.N.’s humanitarian affairs chief said Tuesday that he is “deeply concerned” by renewed fighting in Sudan, warning that aid routes have been blocked as food runs out in the war-torn country. Martin Griffiths said f...
