Israel will keep Gaza buffer zone, minister says, as truce bid stalls
Jerusalem/Cairo, Egypt Reuters Israeli troops will remain in the buffer zones they have created in Gaza even after any settlement to end the war, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Wednesday, as efforts to revive a ceasefire agreement faltered. Since resuming military operations last month, Israeli forces have carved out a broad “security zone” extending […]
Children found malnourished in Greek migrant camp, MSF charity says
Athens, Greece Reuters Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Monday it had identified the first cases of malnourished children in a migrant camp on the Greek island of Samos, which has been criticized by rights groups for dangerous living conditions. MSF doctors have diagnosed six children from Syria and Afghanistan aged between six […]
Sudan’s RSF squeezing relief supplies as famine spreads, aid workers say
Reuters A Sudanese paramilitary force locked in a war with the army has placed new constraints on aid deliveries to territories where it is seeking to cement its control, including areas where famine is spreading, humanitarian workers say. The move comes as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seek to form a parallel government in the […]
Medics struggle to revive Sudan’s hungry with trickle of aid supplies
Sharg Elnil, Sudan Reuters In a nutrition ward at a hospital in Sudan’s war-stricken capital, gaunt mothers lie next to even thinner toddlers with wide, sunken eyes. The patients at Alban Jadeed Hospital are in urgent need of help after nearly two years of battles that have trapped residents and cut off supplies, but doctors […]
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 […]