Sudan’s warring parties fuelling world’s “most devastating” aid crisis, say aid officials
United Nations Reuters The conflict in Sudan has created the “largest and the most devastating humanitarian crisis in the world” as the warring parties lay siege to towns and block aid deliveries, top aid officials told the UN Security Council on Thursday. The war erupted in April, 2023, amid a power struggle between the Sudanese […]
Gaza aid stockpiles limited after Israel cuts flows, aid groups warn
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters Food, medicine and shelter stockpiles in Gaza are limited and aid intended for Palestinians in desperate need may spoil following Israel’s suspension of deliveries to the enclave, humanitarian agencies said on Monday. Israel blocked the entry of aid trucks into Gaza on Sunday as a standoff over the truce that has halted […]
MSF pulls out of famine-stricken camp in Sudan’s Darfur due to heavy fighting
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters Medical charity MSF has been forced to suspend its activities in a famine-stricken camp in Sudan’s North Darfur because of heavy fighting in the area, it said on Monday. The charity was one of the few still working in the besieged Zamzam camp which houses around half a million people displaced by […]
Rebel advance causes panic in Congolese border town Uvira
Reuters Volleys of gunfire rang out in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern border town of Uvira on Wednesday, local sources said, as clashes broke out among allied forces amid the advance of Rwanda-backed rebels. Residents and officials described scenes of looting, bodies lying in the street, and government soldiers commandeering boats to flee across Lake […]
Congo’s displaced fear violence, rape if they return home
Lac Vert, Democratic Republic of Congo Reuters Widow Francine Nsengiyumva and her three children have little to eat and sleep on the hard ground, but like many others at a makeshift displacement centre in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo she is scared to return home. On Sunday, she and other women and children gathered outside […]
Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza amid stepped up ceasefire push
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Israeli strikes killed dozens of people across Gaza on Wednesday, Palestinian medics said, as talks to halt the fighting continued in Qatar and Israeli troops recovered the body of at least one hostage from a tunnel near the southern city of Rafah. Palestinian medical workers said an Israeli airstrike killed at least […]
Israel keeps up Gaza bombardment as ceasefire talks intensify
Cairo, Egypt Reuters US and Arab mediators are working round-the-clock to hammer out a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, sources close to the talks said, while in the Gaza Strip medics said Israeli strikes had killed 41 Palestinians on Thursday. The mediators, at talks in Egypt and Qatar, are trying to forge a deal […]
Sudan’s famine-hit Zamzam camp comes under fire, say residents and MSF
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Sudan’s famine-stricken Zamzam displacement camp has been struck by shelling from the Rapid Support Forces, volunteers and medical aid agency MSF said, as the paramilitary group seeks to tighten control of the Darfur region in the country’s war. The RSF denied attacking the camp, hitherto a safe haven from devastating fighting in […]
Doctors Without Borders halts operations in Haiti’s capital as more than two dozen killed on attack on suburb
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Tuesday that it is stopping operations across the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and its wider metropolitan area due to an escalation in violence and threats to its staff from members of the Haitian police. The suspension would last from Wednesday “until further notice”, said MSF. A general […]
Doctors Without Borders ambulance in Haiti attacked, two patients killed
Port-au-Prince, Haiti Reuters Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Wednesday that at least two patients were killed when its ambulance was stopped and attacked earlier this week in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince. The MSF staff said they were violently attacked on Monday after “members of a vigilante group and law enforcement officers” stopped the ambulance. The […]