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Muhamad Yehia.. Cairo  .. That’s how many people experience extreme hunger in Sudan They represent half the war-ravaged country’s population, and many of them are at risk of acute famine, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). The organisation called on all parties involved in the Sudan conflict, which started …

  Dozens of displaced Sudanese arrived Saturday in Tawila town in North Darfur after attacks by Sudan’s notorious paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces. The Rapid Support Forces and allied militias launched an offensive on the Zamzam and Abu Shorouk camps and the nearby city of el-Fasher, the provincial capital …

    Muhamad Yehia.. Cairo Israel’s ambassador to Ethiopia was ejected from an African Union event this week and has described it as outrageous. An Israeli official on Wednesday told The Associated Press the ejection from the annual event commemorating the 1994 Rwanda genocide was at the request of AU …

By Camilla Royle The British state is trying to pose as a peace-maker in Sudan after nearly two years of war have torn the country apart. The Labour government announced on Thursday that it will hold a conference in London on 15 April with foreign ministers from nearly 20 states. …

Muhamad Yehia .. Caoro UN refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi visited a refugee camp Chad and spoke to displaced people. Grandi emhpasized that the humanitarian operation in Sudan and neighbouring countries, which are bearing the burnt of the refugee crisis, must be supported. He said that while assistance has only …

Renewed air strikes by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) on Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, killed five people and injured eight, bringing the total toll after two days of shelling to 39 dead and 20 injured. The bombing also disrupted markets and brought the movement of the public within the city to a …

Muhamad Yehia MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted his Iranian counterpart Friday for the signing of a broad pact between Moscow and Tehran. The Kremlin says the “comprehensive strategic partnership” agreement between Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will take their cooperation to a new level. What to know about …

CAIRO (AP) — Human rights experts working for the United Nations accused Sudan’s warring parties of using starvation as a war weapon, amid mounting warnings about imminent famine in the African nation. Sudan plunged into chaos in April last year when simmering tensions between the country’s military and a notorious …

CAIRO (AP) — International experts portrayed a grim picture for war-torn Sudan in a report Thursday warning that 755,000 people are facing famine in the coming months, amid relentless clashes between rival generals. The fighting has created a hunger catastrophe at a scale not seen since the Darfur conflict in …

The number of internally displaced people in Sudan has reached more than 10 million as war drives about a quarter of the population from their homes, the U.N. migration agency told The Associated Press on Monday. More than 2 million other people have been driven abroad, mostly to neighboring Chad, …