Ukraine’s Zelenskiy warns against excessive expectations
Reuters President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned on Tuesday against expecting too much success too quickly in Ukraine’s campaign to reclaim occupied lands as the military said Russian forces were gearing up for fresh attacks in different sections of the front. There has been little movement along the 1,000-kilometre front line in recent months. A Ukrainian counter-offensive […]
Essay: Hamas was unpopular in Gaza before it attacked Israel – surveys showed Gazans cared more about fighting poverty than armed resistance
In an article first published on The Conversation, NATHAN FRENCH, associate professor of religion at Miami University, look at what polls show about the attitudes of Palestinians in Gaza…
Sudan’s army chief says he favours negotiated settlement to war
New York, US/Cairo, EgyptReuters Sudan’s army chief said on Friday he had not sought military support on a recent regional tour and that his preference was for a peaceful solution to the conflict that has killed thousands and displaced millions of civilians. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan also said in an interview with Reuters that he […]
Essay: Nagorno-Karabakh – longest war in post-Soviet space flares yet again as Russia distracted in Ukraine
In an article first published on The Conversation, STEFAN WOLFF, professor of international security at the University of Birmingham, looks at the background to the latest upsurge in violence…
Climate change hitting fight against AIDS, TB and malaria
London, UKReuters Climate change and conflict are hitting efforts to tackle three of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has warned. International initiatives to fight the diseases have largely recovered after being badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Fund’s 2023 results […]
“They knew”: Fury of Libyans that warnings went unheeded before flood
Reuters reports that the “catastrophe” which shattered the city of Derna this week had been warned about…
Sudan paramilitary threatens to set up authority with Khartoum as capital
Cairo, EgyptReuters The head of Sudan’s main paramilitary group threatened on Thursday to set up a governing authority in areas his forces control if his enemies in the army form a government. Rapid Support Forces commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo has been fighting the army for almost five months in a conflict that has wrecked the […]
Sudanese general warns Kenya against sending peacekeepers
Cairo, EgyptReuters A Sudanese general rejected in threatening language a Kenyan-led proposal that East African peacekeepers help end a more than 100-day war in Sudan in a video released on Monday, drawing sharp criticism from Kenyan authorities. The Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces it is fighting have received multiple international mediation offers, […]
Attacks and displacement spread in Sudan’s Darfur
Reuters The paramilitary force battling the army in Sudan has taken control of a town in South Darfur, triggering clashes, looting and a new wave of displacement, conflict monitors and a witness said on Monday. Clashes between the Rapid Support Forces and the army around the town of Kas had caused up to 5,000 households […]
Sudan conflict: Churches in neighbouring countries offer aid to those fleeing war
TONNY ONYULO reports on humanitarian efforts…