Conflict
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 07:52
UN says rebels slaughtered hundreds of people when they seized capital of Unity state, urged on by hate speech on radio
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 07:35
Sources from South Sudan have reported the death toll in the Bentiu massacre on Monday and Tuesday of last week has now risen to 406.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 07:32
A group of Darfuri civil society members, united in the Initiative in Support of the Peace Process in Darfur, have handed a memorandum to the head of Unamid in which they call for the resumption of peace negotiations. The Initiative plans to hand a copy to the President of Sudan.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 07:29
El perfil predilecto por Arenas Huertas eran personas humildes y delincuentes comunes, quienes eran engañados bajo la promesa de que iban a realizar un hurto a alguna finca cercana, pero que cuando llegaban al lugar de los hechos, el Ejército los ultimaba.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 07:09
South Sudanese rebels loyal to the former vice-president, Riek Machar, said their forces are on a rescue mission to Bor town, the capital of Jonglei state, which was the scene of the recent massacre of women and children from the Nuer ethnic group at a United Nations base.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 07:04
Jens Mjaugedal, Special Envoy of Norway to Somalia, is frustrated… which is hardly surprising given his mission to try to turn Somalia, which has officially been the world’s most failed state for many years, into a success.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 07:02
Weakened Syrian rebels are making their last desperate stand in Homs, as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad launch their harshest assault yet to expel them from the central city, once known as the capital of the revolution.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 06:59
Gunmen in South Sudan who targeted civilians, including children and the elderly, left “piles and piles” of bodies, many of them in a mosque and a hospital, the United Nations’s top humanitarian official in the country said Tuesday.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 06:39
The United Nations harshly criticized Syria’s decision to hold a presidential election on June 3, amid the ongoing bloody war in the country, saying that the election would ruin any potential political resolution to the problem.
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 06:25
April 20, 2014 - On Friday, April 18 Radio Dabanga reported that Khartoum had expelled yet another critical humanitarian organization working in Darfur, this time Merlin (UK). The reason? Because Merlin had merged with Save the Children, which Khartoum had earlier expelled from Darfur on absurdly contrived grounds (March 2009). For according to Khartoum’s Humanitarian Aid Commission, this merger violated "Sudanese law." Merlin—active in Sudan since 1997—has been providing medical assistance to some 600,000 people, including running 28 permanent health facilities.