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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AFP) — The UN on Monday warned more than 800,000 people could flee fighting and dire conditions in Sudan, where explosions again shook the capital in violation of the latest truce extension agreed by warring generals. The chaos and bloodshed, now in their third week, have already sparked an exodus of tens of thousands of Sudanese to neighboring countries including Egypt, Chad and Central African Republic. But the United Nations’ refugee agency, UNHCR, […]
Khartoum, Sudan | AFP | Monday 5/1/2023 Gun battles and explosions again rocked Sudan’s capital Monday despite the latest truce formally agreed between the warring parties as the United Nations warned the humanitarian crisis had brought the country near its “breaking point”. The chaos and bloodshed, now in their third week, have sparked a mass exodus of tens of thousands of Sudanese to neighbouring countries including Egypt, Chad and Central African Republic. More than 500 […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AFP) — The top United Nations humanitarian official is heading to the Sudan region due to the “rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis” in the conflict-racked country, the UN chief said. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ announcement Sunday came shortly after rival Sudanese forces announced the extension of a truce they have largely violated, as warplanes roared overhead and fighting continued in the capital Khartoum. The fighting pits the forces of army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan against […]
Deaths from hunger are on the rise in Africa because of droughts worsened by climate change and conflict, UN officials and non-governmental organisations said Thursday. Their warning is the latest in a series of statements from campaigners and experts warning that Africa is facing an unprecedented food crisis. There is a death by starvation every 36 seconds on average in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, the UN’s children’s organisation UNICEF and NGOs Care and Oxfam told […]
NAIROBI, April 27, 2023 (AFP) – Kenya said on Thursday that one of the country’s highest-profile pastors would face charges over the “mass killing” of his followers, just days after the discovery of dozens of bodies in mass graves linked to another church. Ezekiel Odero, the head of the New Life Prayer Centre and Church, “has been arrested and is being processed to face criminal charges related to the mass killing of his followers,” Interior […]
Khartoum, Sudan | AFP | Thursday 4/27/2023 The Sudanese army pounded paramilitaries in the capital Khartoum with air strikes Thursday while deadly fighting flared in Darfur, as the clock ticked down on a fragile US-brokered ceasefire now in its final full day. Ahead of the expiry of a three-day truce at midnight (2200 GMT), the army said late Wednesday it had agreed to talks in Juba, capital of neighbouring South Sudan, on extending it “at […]
by Dylan GAMBA Agence France-Presse MALINDI, Kenya (AFP) — The number of victims linked to a suspected starvation cult in Kenya climbed to 98 on Wednesday as weeping relatives anxiously awaited news of loved ones after investigators unearthed mass graves last week. The discovery of dozens of bodies buried in Shakahola forest near the coastal town of Malindi shocked Kenyans, with cult leader Paul Mackenzie Nthenge accused of driving his followers to death by preaching […]
by Dylan GAMBA Agence France-Presse MALINDI, Kenya (AFP) — Fears were growing in Kenya on Tuesday that there could be more victims of a starvation cult as investigators resumed their searches after finding dozens of corpses in mass graves. Police have spent days scouring the Shakahola forest near the coastal town of Malindi after receiving a tip-off about a cult led by Paul Mackenzie Nthenge, who urged his followers to starve to death in order […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — More than a dozen suspected gang members were stoned and burned alive on Monday by residents in Port-au-Prince, police and witnesses said, as the UN warned that insecurity in the Haitian capital has reached levels similar to countries at war. “During a search of a minibus in which there were armed individuals, the police confiscated weapons and other equipment. In addition, more than a dozen individuals traveling in this […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AFP) — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sudan’s warring generals had agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire starting Tuesday, after 10 days of urban combat killed hundreds, wounded thousands and sparked a mass exodus of foreigners. Previous bids to pause the conflict failed to take hold but Blinken said: “Following intense negotiation over the past 48 hours, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have agreed to implement […]
The UN secretary-general warned Monday that the violence between warring parties in Sudan “could engulf the whole region and beyond.” Antonio Guterres told a meeting of the UN Security Council on multilateralism that the situation in Sudan “continues to worsen.” At least 427 people have been killed and almost 4,000 wounded in ten days of fighting between forces loyal to two rival generals. “The violence must stop. It risks a catastrophic conflagration within Sudan that […]
Khartoum, Sudan | AFP | Monday 4/24/2023 Battles raging in Sudan between the army and paramilitaries have sparked multiple evacuation operations to rescue foreign citizens and diplomats by road, air and sea. The main airport in the capital Khartoum has been the site of heavy clashes, effectively shutting its operations. Fighting elsewhere has forced delays to some planned rescue operations. Many countries unable to send forces into Sudan relied on others to extract their citizens […]
