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September 25, 2024
Acid attack and abductions: Tanzania's poisonous politics
GENEVA — Starvation in war-stricken Sudan "is almost everywhere", the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has told the BBC's Today program after visiting the country."The situation in Sudan is very alarming... the massive displacement - it's now the largest in the world, and, of course, famine," director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.He said 12 million people were already displaced, adding that attention in the global community to Sudan was "really low" and race was a factor.Thousands of people have been killed since a civil war broke out in April 2023 between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)."Imagine: destruction, displacement, diseases everywhere, and now famine," Dr Tedros told the BBC.He...
September 17, 2024
Starvation in war-hit Sudan 'almost everywhere': WHO
September 11, 2024
Medics plead for vaccines in DR Congo's mpox battleground
September 11, 2024
Anguish as dozens die in Senegal shipwreck
September 09, 2024
Forty-eight killed in Nigeria fuel tanker crash
August 15, 2024
WHO declares mpox global health emergency
August 13, 2024
UN chief calls for permanent Africa Security Council seat
NAIROBI — Sudan is at a “breaking point,” a United Nations agency said Monday, as a growing number of people need food, water, shelter and medical care in a country devastated by intensifying war.Over eight million people have been displaced since fighting erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) last year, plunging the country into what the UN has called “one of the worst humanitarian disasters in recent memory.”“Without an immediate, massive, and coordinated global response, we risk witnessing tens of thousands of preventable deaths in the coming months,” Othman Belbeisi, the Middle East and Africa director for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), said in a statement. “We are at breaking point, a catastrophic,...
August 13, 2024
Sudan at a ‘breaking point’ as civil war rages, UN agency says
August 12, 2024
Tanzania opposition figure Tundu Lissu arrested in crackdown
August 08, 2024
Kenyan youth call for ‘mother of all protests’ as president swears in new cabinet
