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Desperate shortages in Khartoum as Sudan battles intensify

Residents struggle under Sudan’s warring military factions as clashes intensify.

Al Jazeera

Ethiopia rejects ‘ethnic cleansing’ accusation in western Tigray

Human Rights Watch accuses government-backed militias, officials of committing ‘war crimes and crimes against humanity’.

Al Jazeera

Bid to end foodbank use by 2030 reaches Commons amid growing calls for action

Scottish National Party MP Chris Stephens will outline plans to make them redundant by the end of the decade, after the Trussell Trust reported record demand

Daily Mirror

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War in Sudan puts South Sudan in danger too: the world’s youngest nation needs a stable neighbour

Twelve years after independence, South Sudan remains extremely poor and underdeveloped. A peace deal brokered in 2018 has failed to end conflict. And the government has failed to engage the people in state reconstruction, leaving the country without genuine and effective institutions of self-government.

The Conversation

Lawyer: Health of Gadhafi's son, detained in Lebanon, deteriorating 3 days into hunger strike

The lawyer of a son of Libya’s late leader Moammar Gadhafi says his client's health is deteriorating three days into a hunger strike in his prison cell in Lebanon

The Independent UK

Sudanese warring factions to resume indirect talks as clashes intensify

Sudan's warring military factions are restarting ceasefire talks sponsored by the United States and Saudi Arabia, Al Arabiya TV reported on Tuesday, as they clashed by air and on the ground in the capital Khartoum.

Reuters

NGO raises alarm in Sahel as conflict, climate change claim more victims

More than 16 million people affected by conflict and climate change in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger need humanitarian aid, according to an American NGO report published on Monday.

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Even prisons serve regular meals – yet in our camp, Rohingyas go hungry

Prevented by Bangladeshi authorities from working, refugees in the Cox’s Bazar camp are dependent on food aid, which is being cut again and again. We cannot carry on like this, says the founder of Rohingya Women Development Forum

The Guardian - UK

Census data in West Africa is badly out of date: 5 reasons fresh population statistics are crucial

West Africa, an area composed of 16 countries, is one of the fastest growing regions in the world. The region has a population of over 350 million, a five-fold increase since 1950 when 73 million people lived there.

The Conversation

Too Many Critics: Action Against Hunger fundraiser raises record-breaking £121,000 for charity

Critics cooking include Giles Coren, Grace Dent, Tom Parker Bowles and the Standard’s own David Ellis

Evening Standard

Sudan’s war is wrecking a lot, including its central bank – a legacy of trailblazing African American economist and banker Andrew Brimmer

The war in Sudan between two rival generals for control of the country is devastating in so many ways. Hundreds of civilians have been killed, thousands injured and more than 1 million people are now homeless. The fighting is even wreaking havoc on the country’s central bank.

The Conversation

Scotland 'set precedent for UK to follow', top charity says of food bank plans

SCOTLAND has set “a precedent for other governments around the UK to follow”, a leading charity has said ...

The National (Scotland)

Shelling, looting in Sudan's capital as military factions battle for eighth week

Shelling and heavy clashes hit areas of Sudan's capital on Monday, residents said, with reports of spreading lawlessness in Khartoum and in the western region of Darfur after more than seven weeks of conflict between rival military factions.

Reuters

Sudan officials fear for historical artefacts threatened by fighting

Warring factions urged to preserve heritage after video clip appears to show fighters raiding Khartoum museum

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The Independent UK

More than 2 million people displaced, Burkina Faso's government says, as aid falls short

Violence linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group has made Burkina Faso a country with one of the world’s fastest-growing populations of internally displaced people

Al Jazeera

‘Real hell’: Deadly fighting escalates in Sudan as truce expires

New outburst of violence in North Darfur state has left at least 40 people dead, activists and residents say.

Radio France Internationale

Ugandan peacekeepers killed in jihadist attack in Somalia

Some 54 Ugandan peacekeepers died when militants besieged an African Union base in Somalia last week, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said, in one of the worst recent attacks by Al-Shabaab jihadists in the war-torn country.

The Independent UK

US, Saudi Arabia urge Sudan’s warring parties to agree to a new cease-fire, amid fresh battles

Saudi Arabia and the United States have urged Sudan’s warring parties to agree to and “effectively implement” a cease-fire amid renewed fighting in the northeastern African nation

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Asylum system ‘riddled with abuse’ and needs fundamental change, says Robert Jenrick

The Immigration Minister said people arriving in small boats ‘risk cannibalising the compassion’ of the UK public.

The Independent UK

Asylum system ‘riddled with abuse’ and needs fundamental change – Jenrick

The Immigration Minister said people arriving in small boats ‘risk cannibalising the compassion’ of the UK public.

Dynamite News

Pakistan, Afghanistan among global food shortage 'hotspots': Report

Two United Nations bodies Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have foreseen acute food insecurity in Pakistan that is likely to further exacerbate in the coming months, if the economic and political crisis further worsens. Read further on Dynamite News:

Bangkok Post

Uganda says 54 peacekeepers killed in Somalia attack

KAMPALA: Some 54 Ugandan peacekeepers died when militants besieged an African Union base in Somalia last week, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said, in one of the worst recent attacks by Al-Shabaab jihadists.

Daily Mirror

North Korea sends elite to work on rice farms after starvation deaths TRIPLE in a year

Kim Jong-un has ballooned to over 22 stone despite starvation deaths tripling in North Korea in just one year with Pyongyang elite sent to work on rice farms

The Guardian - UK

‘Lives put at risk’ by UK’s failure to fast-track Sudanese asylum claims

Refugee charities are calling on the British government to speed up family reunion visas as fighting continues around Khartoum

The Guardian - UK

The EU pays Africa’s brutal militias to lock up migrants. Britain wants to follow suit

Torture, rape and death are the results of a policy to keep desperate people away from Europe

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