GENEVA (Reuters) -Mass starvation is a “very real risk” in some regions of war-torn Sudan, where conflict has made medical aid broadly unavailable, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. Fighting broke out in the capital Khartoum in April 2023 and quickly spread across the country, reigniting ethnic bloodshed in the …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday named and shamed Israel’s armed and security forces, Palestinian militants Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and Sudan’s warring parties for killing and maiming children in 2023, adding them to an annual global list of offenders for violations against children. In a report …
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By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor is urgently investigating allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur city of al-Fashir which has become a new front between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). In a video statement released on …
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GENEVA (Reuters) -At least 49 migrants died and 140 others were missing after their boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, the U.N. migration agency said on Tuesday. The vessel, which departed from Somalia and was carrying 260 migrants, among them Somalis and Ethiopians, the International Organization of Migration (IOM) statement said. Earlier, a Yemeni …
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By Frank Phiri BLANTYRE, Malawi (Reuters) -Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima and nine others, including former first lady Shanil Dzimbiri, were killed when the military plane they were travelling in crashed, President Lazarus Chakwera said on Tuesday. The aircraft carrying Chilima, who was seen as a potential candidate in next year’s presidential election, went …
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By Kopano Gumbi and Sfundo Parakozov JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Former South African president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party has applied to the country’s top court to block the newly elected parliament from sitting this week on the grounds that the May 29 vote was marred by fraud, it said on Tuesday. The National Assembly …
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By David Lewis NAIROBI (Reuters) – Tunisian border guards have rounded up migrants and passed them to counterparts in Libya where they have faced forced labour, extortion, torture and killing, according to a confidential U.N. human rights briefing seen by Reuters. The two nations are vital partners in the European Union’s efforts to stem the …
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By Giulia Paravicini NAIROBI (Reuters) – Parts of Sudan are in famine, a top U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday, adding that the extent of extreme hunger remained unclear nearly 14 months into a war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). “I think we know we are in famine,” Tom Perriello, the …
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By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Talks to forge South Africa’s post-election unity government will need to bring together parties with goals as contradictory as seizing white-owned farms and mines, ditching Black empowerment policies and tearing up the constitution. How well the African National Congress (ANC) harmonises these divergent and mutually hostile visions will determine …
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By Frank Phiri BLANTYRE, Malawi (Reuters) -Search and rescue operations will continue until the missing aircraft carrying Malawi’s vice president, Saulos Klaus Chilima, is found, the southern African nation’s president said late on Monday. Chilima, 51, was aboard a military aircraft with nine others that left Lilongwe, the capital, at 09:17 a.m. (0717 GMT), Malawi’s …
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