Years of negotiations culminated early Wednesday with countries agreeing the text of a landmark accord on how to tackle future pandemics, aimed at avoiding a repeat of the mistakes made during the Covid-19 crisis.After more than three years of talks and one last marathon session, weary delegates at the World Health Organization’s headquarters sealed the …
Two years into a war that has left tens of thousands dead, Sudan’s RSF paramilitary force on Tuesday announced its own government to rival the army-backed administration it is battling.The United Nations says the conflict that erupted on April 15, 2023 is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with 13 million people displaced — including more …
Two years into a war that has left tens of thousands dead, Sudan’s paramilitary force on announced its own government to rival the army-backed administration it is battling.The United Nations has said that the conflict that erupted on April 15, 2023 is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with 13 million people displaced — including more …
A US jury on Tuesday convicted a Gambian man for torturing opponents of the African country’s former president by burning and beating them, including with molten plastic.Michael Sang Correa, 46, served in an armed unit known as the “Junglers,” which answered to The Gambia’s then-president, Yahya Jammeh. A trial in Denver, Colorado, found that Correa and …
US jury convicts Gambian ‘death squad’ member for tortureTue, 15 Apr 2025 22:11:59 GMT Read More »
Sudan’s paramilitary declared on Tuesday the establishment of government rivalling the army-backed administration, two years into a war that has triggered the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.The war that erupted on April 15, 2023 has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced 13 million, with no sign of peace on the horizon.The fighting has pitted …
Britain and European Union countries led international calls Tuesday for “an immediate and permanent ceasefire” to end the devastating war in Sudan, as nations pledged more than 800 million euros in fresh humanitarian aid.The international community also “stressed the necessity of preventing any partition of Sudan,” a statement at the end of a London conference …
Tanzania’s main opposition party on Tuesday declared its disqualification from upcoming national polls was unconstitutional, only a week after its leader was detained and charged with treason.The east African nation’s authorities have increasingly cracked down on its opposition, with the Chadema party accusing President Samia Suluhu Hassan of returning to the repressive tactics of her …
Nadjala Mourraou held her haggard two-year-old son in her henna-tattooed hands for the medics to examine. Then came the painful diagnosis: little Ahma, like many of his fellow Sudanese refugees, was severely malnourished.The pair were towards the front of a long line snaking out of the doctors’ tent at an already overcrowded refugee camp in …
Sudan on Tuesday marked two years of a war that has killed tens of thousands, displaced 13 million and triggered the world’s worst humanitarian crisis — with no sign of peace.Fighting erupted on April 15, 2023 between the regular army, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, headed by his former …
Sudan marks two years of war with no end in sightTue, 15 Apr 2025 14:34:17 GMT Read More »
Somalia on Tuesday launched voter registration in the capital Mogadishu for the first time in over 50 years, a step towards universal suffrage ahead of presidential elections scheduled for 2026 in the volatile nation.The east African country is struggling to emerge from decades of conflict and chaos, battling a bloody Islamist insurgency and frequent natural …
