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Drone strike hits aid convoy in Sudan, three killed
Khartoum: An aid convoy was hit by drone strikes Thursday, killing three people and wounding four aid workers as it travelled to cities in central Sudan’s Kordofan region, the epicentre of fighting…
- Middle East
Surge in drone strikes in Sudan’s Kordofan kills civilians, disrupts aid
Cairo: A surge in drone strikes in the Sudanese region of Kordofan has taken a growing toll on civilians and hampered aid operations, analysts and humanitarian workers said Wednesday, as the war…
- Middle East
Over 6,000 killed in RSF assault on Sudan’s El-Fasher: UN
Khartoum: More than 6,000 people were killed in over three days when a Sudanese paramilitary group unleashed “a wave of intense violence … shocking in its scale and brutality” in Sudan’s Darfur…
- World
Famine spreads to more towns in Sudan’s Darfur, hunger experts warn
Cairo: Famine is spreading in war-torn Sudan’s western Darfur region and has now engulfed two more towns there, a global hunger monitoring group said on Thursday, February 5. The announcement came after…
- Featured News
When small is ugly: Somaliland, UAE emerge as new pawns of the West
Small is beautiful, but perhaps not in global geo-politics. Fragmenting a sizeable country with rich resources – a phenomenon called balkanization – is a part of the policy of imperialist forces ever…
- Middle East
Celebs recite Palestinian, Sudanese poetry in show of solidarity
World-renowned celebrities, including seven-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton, came together in a video featuring Palestinian and Sudanese poems in a show of solidarity with the two nations in conflict. The virtual…
- Middle East
Sudanese archaeologist races to preserve heritage amid ongoing war
Khartoum: In a dimly lit office in a corner of the French National Institute for Art History, Sudanese archaeologist Shadia Abdrabo studies a photograph of pottery made in her country around 7,000…
- Middle East
Amnesty accuses Sudan’s RSF of war crimes in Darfur
Cairo: Amnesty International on Tuesday, November 25, said that atrocities committed by a Sudanese paramilitary group in a Darfur city constituted war crimes, the latest such accusation in the country’s devastating war.…
- Middle East
At least 23 children die of malnutrition in Sudan’s Kordofan
Khartoum: Almost two dozen children died of malnutrition-related causes within a month in central Sudan, where fierce fighting between the country’s military and a paramilitary group has centred, a medical group said.…
- Middle East
UAE, US discuss urgent ceasefire push in Sudan
Abu Dhabi: Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, deputy prime minister and foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), held a phone call with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to discuss…
- Middle East
UN holds special session on Sudan after hundreds killed in El-Fasher
Geneva: The UN’s top human rights body was holding a one-day special session Friday to highlight hundreds of killings at a hospital in Sudan’s Darfur region and other atrocities committed last month…
- Opinions
Zakaria’s new Middle East fantasy ignores Gulf atrocities in war
When there is widespread condemnation of the stand taken by Gulf monarchies on Gaza carnage and Sudanese civil war, the Washington Post columnist, Fareed Zakaria, deemed it fit to shower praise on…
- Middle East
Sudan’s RSF agrees on truce proposed by US-led mediator group
Cairo: The Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group that has been at war with the Sudanese military for over two years, said Thursday, November 6, it has agreed to a humanitarian truce…
- Middle East
‘Do you know Shah Rukh Khan?’: Indian man kidnapped by RSF fighters in Sudan
A 36-year-old Indian man has been kidnapped by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan’s conflict-ravaged Darfur region, according to media reports. The abduction highlights the worsening security situation in the…
- Middle East
Emirates ad faces backlash over UAE’s arms ties to Sudan’s RSF
Emirates, the flagship carrier of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is facing widespread backlash online after posting an advertisement promoting its luxury A380 business class cabin. The criticism comes as the UAE…