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‘Armed groups’ terrorising Burkina Faso: HRW 2024-09-18
Al Jazeera

Armed groups with links to al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS) have...

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Biden urges Sudan's warring parties to resume peace talks, allow humanitarian access 2024-09-18
Anadolu Agency

US President Joe Biden urged Sudan's warring parties Tuesday to re-engage in negotiations and facilitate humanitarian access amid a war that has been ongoing for more than 17 months. "I call on the belligerents responsible for Sudanese...

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Sudan reports over 9,500 cholera cases, 315 deaths 2024-09-17
Suryaa

Khartoum, Sep 17 (IANS) Sudan's Ministry of Health said that 9,533 cases of cholera, including 315 deaths, had been recorded in the country. The ministry said in a statement that the cumulative...

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The economic way to reverse demographic decline 2024-09-13
Asiatimes

This is the first installment of a two-part essay. In an April essay published by Asia Times about actual or impending fertility decline to below population-replacing levels in nearly all countries outside sub-Saharan Africa, I observed: No one has shown how to raise birth rates without greater...

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EU fears for its human rights credibility as Tunisia crushes dissent, leak shows 2024-09-13
AOL

The EU fears its credibility is at stake as it seeks to weigh growing concerns about the crushing of dissent in Tunisia while preserving a controversial migration deal with the north African country, according to a leaked document. An internal report drafted by the EU’s diplomatic service (EEAS),...

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Refugees fleeing Sudan conflict facing hunger, disease amid funding shortfalls: charity 2024-09-11
Xinhua

JUBA, Sept. 11 (Xinhua) -- Nearly 800,000 refugees who have fled conflict in Sudan are facing hunger and diseases in South Sudan amid a lack of humanitarian funding and soaring cost of food, a global charity warned Wednesday. Save the Children said about 794,000 refugees and South Sudanese...

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Floods exacerbate humanitarian crisis in Sudan :UN 2024-09-10
Gulf-Times

UN humanitarian workers said that heavy rains and flooding have impacted about half a million people since late June in South Darfur, Red Sea, River Nile and...

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Sudan: Abusive Warring Parties Acquire New Weapons 2024-09-09
Human Rights Watch

(New York, September 9, 2024) – The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), warring parties responsible for widespread war crimes and other atrocities in the current conflict in Sudan, have newly acquired modern foreign-made weapons and military equipment, Human Rights Watch...

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UN Says Floods Affect 710,000 People In South Sudan 2024-09-06
MENA FN

(MENAFN - IANS) Juba, Sep 6 (IANS) The ongoing flooding has affected more than 710,000 people across 30 of 78 counties in South Sudan and the Abyei Administrative Area. Floods caused by heavy rains ... ......

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UN-backed human rights experts seek wider arms embargo, 'impartial force' deployed to war-torn Sudan 2024-09-06
Newsday

GENEVA — U.N.-backed human rights investigators on Friday urged the creation of an “independent and impartial force” to protect civilians in Sudan’s war, blaming both sides for war crimes including murder, mutilation and torture and warning that foreign governments that arm and finance them could be...

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