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Gunfire ripped through residential neighbourhoods of Sudan’s capital Khartoum at the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid al Fitr on Friday. This happened after the army deployed on foot for the first time in its almost week-long fight with a paramilitary force. Soldiers and gunmen from the paramilitary...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says no fewer than 330 people have been killed due to fighting in the capital Khartoum and several other states, including Darfur States. The UN health agency on Thursday also said no fewer than 3,200 have been injured in Sudan since a military power...
India will soon replace China as the world’s most populous country, according to estimates by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). By the middle of 2023, India will have almost 3 million more people than China, according to data from the organisation’s World Population Report published on Wednesday. According...
The violence that broke out in Sudan on Saturday has killed 270 people and injured 2,600, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). “I condemn all loss of lives and we stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in #Sudan,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO’s director general,...
Israel on Tuesday commemorated the Jewish resistance and the millions of Jews murdered during the Holocaust as they prepared for their 80th remembrance. Yom HaShoah, the Holocaust Remembrance Day, has been marked in Israel since 1951. This year the Jewish resistance against German SS troops in the Warsaw Ghetto, which...
Three East African presidents are planning to travel to Sudan as mediators in a bid to resolve the outbreak of violence between rival military camps. Kenya’s President William Ruto, South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and Djibouti’s President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh will arrive in the Sudanese capital Khartoum “at the...
The power struggle between two generals in Sudan and associated violence escalated dramatically on Saturday and Sunday, with at least dozens of civilians and soldiers killed. It remained unclear who has the upper hand in the power struggle, according to media reports, which said fighting around the Sudanese army’s...
Pope Francis has come to the defence of the late pope John Paul II who was accused in a recent documentary film of ignoring allegations of abuse by priests and protecting them by transferring them. Francis said that the former pope, who was born Karol Wojtyla in Poland, is...
A 21-year-old member of the U.S. Air Force National Guard suspected of leaking highly classified military intelligence records online will on Friday make his initial appearance before a federal judge in Boston. Jack Douglas Teixeira, of North Dighton, Massachusetts, was arrested by the FBI at his home on Thursday...
Police on Friday, confirmed the death of four people and 11 others rescued while emaciated from occultation underground in the Kenyan coastal town of Malindi. The police said in a security report that they had been tipped off that there were dozens of people starving to death at a...
Former US president, Donald Trump, having been criminally charged in New York, pledged Tuesday to “never drop out” of the 2024 race for the White House, and insisted Joe Biden is not fit to run again. The Republican real estate magnate, facing 34 felony counts in New York over...
The International Monetary Fund(IMF), COP28 President-Designate and UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance have called for measures needed to accelerate climate action and finance. This is contained in a statement issued by the IMF Press Centre, a copy of which was obtained by the News Agency of...
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has condemned the “abhorrent” attack which claimed the lives of three members of a British-Israeli family. Lucy Dee, 48, died on Monday from injuries suffered during the terrorist attack in the West Bank on Friday which killed her daughters Rina, 15, and Maia, 20....
Pope Francis is expected to celebrate the Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square in Rome on Sunday morning. Once again, tens of thousands are expected to attend the celebration. Last weekend, around 60,000 people took part in the Palm Sunday Mass, according to the Vatican’s gendarmerie. On Easter...
On Holy Saturday, Pope Francis celebrated the festive Easter Vigil commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Around 8,000 spectators attended the celebration, according to Italy’s ANSA news agency. In his homily, the pope condemned the “rampant injustice” and the “icy winds of war”...
China’s military said on Saturday it launched three days of military exercises around Taiwan, after the leader of the self-ruled island infuriated Beijing by visiting the United States. The exercises are being held “according to plan” to the north, south and east of Taiwan, a statement by the People’s...
Pope Francis celebrated the Good Friday service “The Passion and Death of the Lord” in St Peter’s Basilica but was not going to join the Way of the Cross, as initially planned. He officially presided over the celebration, but the sermon was given by Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, the official...
Rwanda on Friday started the commemoration of the 29th anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group that left over one million people dead, with President Paul Kagame calling for self-determination to build a better and more prosperous country through unity, hard work, and perseverance. Kagame made...
Israeli security forces clashed with Palestinians for a second consecutive night at a Jerusalem holy site during a convergence of Islamic and Jewish holidays. Groups of young Palestinians set off fireworks and threw stones at police officers on Wednesday night as they tried to barricade themselves inside the al-Aqsa...