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By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) -British Foreign Minister James Cleverly will leave New Zealand Friday and cut his Pacific tour short, his office said, as he focuses on coordinating Britain’s response to the Sudan crisis. Cleverly had been scheduled to meet with Samoan officials and New Zealand Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta in Samoa on Friday …

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CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said it had agreed to a 72-hour truce on humanitarian grounds, effective from 6 a.m. (0400 GMT) Friday, offering a potential respite from a six-day military conflict with the Sudanese army. “The truce coincides with the blessed Eid Al-Fitr (Muslim holiday) … to open humanitarian corridors …

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan received separate phone calls on Thursday from the United States, Saudi and Qatari foreign ministers, also from the Turkish president and the Egyptian intelligence chief, an army statement reported. The calls come amid efforts to get both the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces to …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is preparing to send a large number of additional troops to its base in Djibouti in case of an eventual evacuation from Sudan, a U.S. official said as renewed heavy gunfire erupted on Thursday. The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, declined to elaborate. Forces commanded by two …

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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed on Thursday for a three-day ceasefire in Sudan over the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr to allow trapped civilians to escape to seek medical treatment, food and other essential supplies. Guterres did not specify when the ceasefire should start. The three-day holiday …

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KINSHASA (Reuters) – The United Nations has painted bright orange its two white helicopters providing humanitarian relief in eastern Congo in an effort to protect them from militia attacks by distinguishing them from other aircraft. Insecurity has worsened in east Congo since a rebel group known as the M23 – one of many armed militias …

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