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UN seeks $US6 billion to ease hunger catastrophe in Sudan

Geneva, Switzerland Reuters UN officials on Monday asked for $US6 billion for Sudan this year from donors to help ease what they called the world’s worst ever hunger catastrophe and the mass displacement of people brought on by civil war. The UN appeal represents a rise of more than 40 per cent from last year’s […]

Humanitarian catastrophe looms in east Congo as rebels push south, official says

Reuters The advance of Rwanda-backed M23 rebels into Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu province threatens to trigger a humanitarian catastrophe in an area already housing thousands of displaced people, the provincial governor said. The Tutsi-led rebels have been inching south since they seized eastern Congo’s largest city of Goma at the end of last […]

US tells UN: We cannot pay forever for Syria camps with Islamic State-linked prisoners

United Nations Reuters US assistance for managing and securing camps in north-eastern Syria with Islamic State-linked prisoners “cannot last forever,” the acting US Ambassador to the United Nations, Dorothy Shea, told the Security Council on Wednesday. Dorothy Camille Shea, Deputy US Representative to the United Nations gives an statement during a Security Council about the […]

Militia kills more than 35 civilians in east Congo village attack

Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo Reuters Armed militants killed more than 35 civilians in an attack on a cluster of villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a village chief and a lawmaker said on Tuesday, with a search for more bodies expected to lift the eventual death toll sharply. The head of the Djaiba […]

Most countries miss UN deadline for new climate targets

Brussels, Belgium Reuters Many of the world’s biggest polluter nations have missed a UN deadline to set new climate targets as efforts to curb global warming come under pressure following US President Donald Trump’s election. The nearly 200 countries signed up to the Paris Agreement faced a Monday deadline to submit new national climate plans […]

War crimes prosecutor first target of Trump’s ICC sanctions, sources say

The Hague, The Netherlands Reuters International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan is the first person to be hit with economic and travel sanctions authorised by US President Donald Trump that target the war crimes tribunal over investigations of US citizens or US allies, two sources briefed on the matter told Reuters on Friday. Khan, who […]

Ceasefire in east Congo appears to crumble as rebels take another town

Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo Reuters Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have seized control of a mining town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu province, eight sources said on Wednesday, in an apparent violation of a unilateral ceasefire they declared this week. The capture of Nyabibwe on Lake Kivu takes the rebels a step closer […]

United Nations chief warns Trump against ethnic cleansing in Gaza

United Nations Reuters United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told President Donald Trump on Wednesday to avoid ethnic cleansing in Gaza after the US leader proposed that Palestinians resettle elsewhere and the United States take over the war-torn enclave. “In the search for solutions, we must not make the problem worse. It is vital to stay […]

Congo’s army and Burundian allies slow M23 rebel’s southern march

Reuters Congolese troops with support from Burundi’s army appeared on Friday to be holding back a push south by Rwandan-backed rebels seeking to expand their grip on eastern Congo in a weeks-old advance that has raised fears of a broader regional conflict. Earlier this week the Tutsi-led M23 rebels seized Goma, the largest city in […]