KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – More than 12,000 people have been killed in war-torn Sudan since April, the UN humanitarian affairs office said on Thursday. The deaths include “1,300 people who were killed between 28 October and 24 November,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement. The conflict...
United Nations, United States – AFP At the request of Sudanese authorities, the UN Security Council on Friday ended the world body’s political mission in the African country ravaged by more than seven months of fighting between two rival generals. Following a letter from Khartoum demanding an immediate end to the United Nations Int...
TEHRAN (AA) – Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday the biggest concern of the Islamic world at the moment is “crimes against Palestinians.” Leading a high-level delegation, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani arrived in Tehran on an unannounced visit in the wee hours of Monday morning. The visit came a day after Sudani ...
Tokyo, Japan — AFP Any escalation of military activities will be “catastrophic” for people in the Gaza Strip, the UN high commissioner for refugees has said. More than 4,200 Palestinians have been killed across the Gaza Strip in relentless Israeli bombardments since October 7 when Palestinian resistance movement Hamas launche...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudan has reported an outbreak of cholera, with 18 deaths from the disease in the eastern state of Gedaref and three in the capital Khartoum. There have been 265 suspected cases of intestine infection with Vibrio bacteria. “The first suspected cases of cholera were recorded in the village of Khater, in […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Sudan’s army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has given conditional approval for holding negotiations with his rival Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, head of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group. Burhan said in an interview with the BBC that he would sit down with Dagalo as long as he abided by commitments to […]
NEW YORK (AA) – Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the Sovereign Council of Sudan, met UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Karim Khan on Saturday in New York. Burhan, in his meeting with Guterres, said the government is ready to collaborate with the UN on all matters […]...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – The US has reiterated its call for Sudan’s warring rivals to end their “brutal conflict” and allow Sudanese people to live in peace. “The warring parties must end this brutal conflict,”c, assistant State Secretary, told Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan during a meeting on the sideli...
DOHA (AA) – Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has called for support to the Palestinian people to find a just political solution. He made the statement while addressing the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York City, “It is not acceptable for the Palestinian people to remain prisoners of […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Some important government buildings in the capital Khartoum were hit during heavy clashes between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), local media reported on Sunday, without providing details on the casualties. Images shared on social media show smoke rising from the buildings of the Justice Ministry, S...
