S. Korea to send rotational troops to South Sudan along with medical equipmentSouth Korea was to send additional rotational peacekeeping troops to South Sudan on Monday, along with medical supplies to help the African country handle the new coronavirus, the defense ministry said. The first echelon of the 12th batch for Hanbit....
Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan will resume talks on disputed damThree African countries have signaled their readiness to resume negotiations on a controversial dam that will be the continent's largest. The move by Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan came after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Thursday his country is ready to return to talks.....
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Sudan's bloody tribal clashes threaten fragile transitionAn upsurge in bloody tribal clashes in Sudan has killed at least 59 people and wounded over 100 this month, heaping more pressure on the country's fragile transitional government.....
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Hundreds killed in South Sudan tribal clashes – ICRCJUBA — Hundreds of civilians, including three aid workers, were killed in a series of tribal clashes in villages in South Sudan’s vast Jonglei state, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday. The territory of South Sudan has been plagued for decades by ethnic ....
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60 S. Koreans return home from Africa on chartered flight used for troop rotationSixty South Koreans who had been stranded in Africa returned home Thursday on a chartered plane used to transport the country's rotational peacekeeping troops to South Sudan earlier this week, officials said. After completing the mission to airlift....
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Oxfam to close 18 offices worldwide as virus drains financesLONDON (AP) — Oxfam International, one of the world's leading aid agencies, will severely curtail its work because of the financial strain caused by the coronavirus pandemic, including the closure of operations in 18 countries at the potential cost of 1,450 jobs.
The organization, which current....
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Supreme Court: Victims of 1998 Al Qaeda attacks in Africa can sue SudanThe Supreme Court sided Monday with victims of Al Qaeda's 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa, ruling unanimously that they were eligible for punitive damages from Sudan, which was found to have assisted the terror organization.....
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COVID-19 Arrives in Refugee CampsThe news on May 14 that two Rohingya refugees have tested positive for the coronavirus in the densely-populated camps in Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh, is chilling for those who have been drawing attention to the vulnerability of refugees and other displaced people to the COVID-19 pandemic. It follows si....
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Lockdown 4.0: Centre lists parameters for states to delineate red, orange, green zonesNew Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Sunday listed parameters such as active COVID-19 cases, doubling and fatality rates and cases per lakh population, for states and union territories to follow while categorising areas into red, orange or green zones. It also issued guidelines for delineation o....
COVID-19 confirmed in crowded UN-run camp in South SudanJUBA, South Sudan (AP) — For the first time, COVID-19 has been confirmed in a crowded civilian protection camp in South Sudan's capital, the United Nations said Tuesday, a worrying development in a country that's one of the world's least prepared for the virus' spread.
The U.N. is aware that th....
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South Korea to begin sending rotational troops to South Sudan this monthSouth Korea plans to send rotational peacekeeping troops to South Sudan starting this month, after months of delay due to the coronavirus, the defense ministry said Tuesday. A fresh batch of troops for its 300-strong Hanbit Unit was supposed t....
Sudan appoints first ambassador to U.S. for decadesSudan has appointed its first ambassador to the United States for almost a quarter of a century, its foreign ministry said Monday, in a move to normalise relations after decades of antagonism.....
Highest number of virus deaths in single day in PakistanISLAMABAD: As coronavirus cases surpassed the 15,000 mark with the highest number of deaths in a single day, the government on Wednesday decided to bring back 7,500 overseas Pakistanis in the first week of May.
Moreover, at the request of Afghanistan, the government decided to allow export of n....
Sudan inflation soars to above 80% as economic crisis bitesKHARTOUM, Sudan – Sudan's annual inflation rate has topped 80%, the government said on Tuesday, April 28, as the country grapples with an acute economic crisis.
"The annual inflation rate reached 81.64% in March, compared to 71.36% in February," the Central Bureau of Statistics said in a sta....
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Religious freedom watchdog pitches adding India to blacklistNEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom is urging that the State Department add India to its list of nations with uniquely poor records on protecting freedom to worship — while proposing to remove Sudan and Uzbekistan from that list.
The bipartisan commission, c....
Over 46,500 Pakistanis registered for repatriation, says FM QureshiISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Wednesday said that 46,743 stranded Pakistanis had registered themselves with Pakistan's missions for repatriation to the homeland.
Briefing a parliamentary functional committee on Covid-19 on measures being taken to facilitate the return of st....
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10 African countries have no ventilators. That's only part of the problemSouth Sudan, a nation of 11 million, has more vice presidents (five) than ventilators (four). The Central African Republic has three ventilators for its 5 million people. In Liberia, which is similar in size, there are six working machines — and one of them sits behind the gates of the US Embassy.....
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Concerns of a coup stir in Sudan as capital braces for a virus lockdownA dispute over measures to counter the coronavirus in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, has led to an open confrontation between the country's military and political leaders, underscoring the fragility of the country's transition to democracy.....
Coronavirus could erode global fight against other diseasesLavina D'Souza hasn't been able to collect her government supplied anti-HIV medication since the abrupt lockdown of India's 1.3 billion people last month during the coronavirus outbreak.
Marooned in a small city away from her home in Mumbai, the medicine she needs to manage her disease has run ou....
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8 S. Koreans to head home on Japan-arranged flights from virus-hit India, SudanA total of eight South Korean nationals will head home this week from coronavirus-hit India and Sudan aboard flights that Japan arranged to evacuate its own citizens, a foreign ministry official said Tuesday. The evacuation underscored continued coo....
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OIC members urged to boost cooperation to fight virusISLAMABAD: A health forum of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has urged its member states to enhance cooperation for fighting the Covid-19 pandemic and mitigating its impact.
A statement issued at the conclusion of an emergency virtual meeting of the OIC-Steering Committee on Health....
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States including Kerala demand more testing kits, ventilators, PPE from CentreNew Delhi:Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday held a meeting via video conferencing with health ministers of different states for taking stock of the preparedness regarding the Covid-19 pandemic. Most of the state representatives demanded more quantity of personal protective equipment (PP....
South Sudan reports first coronavirus caseJUBA, South Sudan – South Sudan reported its first coronavirus case on Sunday, April 5, one of the last African nations to confirm the presence of COVID-19 within its borders.
"South Sudan confirms one case of coronavirus," Riek Machar, the country's first vice president, told a press confere....
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101 preachers among 141 more Covid-19 patients in LahoreLAHORE: A woman died of coronavirus in the provincial capital which also witnessed a sharp spike in cases after 101 more members at Tableeghi Jamaat Headquarters at Raiwind City tested positive for the virus besides 40 citizens in other parts of the city during the last 24 hours.
This surge has p....
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UN adopts 4 resolutions, voting by email because of COVID-19UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted four resolutions on Monday, with its 15 members voting by email for the first time because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Members voted to keep troops in Sudan's restive Darfur region until the end of May and maintain the U.N. po....
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About 200 S. Korean peacekeepers return home from South SudanAbout 200 South Korean peacekeeping troops returned home Saturday from South Sudan after completing their nine-month rotational mission. They arrived at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul, shortly before noon on an Ethiopian Airlines plane....
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UN launches virus aid plan worth $2bnUNITED NATIONS: The coronavirus pandemic is threatening the entire human race, the United Nations warned on Wednesday as it launched a humanitarian response plan featuring an appeal for $2 billion to help the world's poorest and most vulnerable people.
"Covid-19 is thre....
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Coronavirus: Sudan orders release of prisonersAuthorities in Sudan have ordered the release of thousands of prisoners to prevent the novel coronavirus from spreading in the country's jails, state media reported....
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New coronavirus threatens both rich, poor across MideastThe new coronavirus continued its spread across some of the most-vulnerable nations of the Mideast on Tuesday as the International Monetary Fund warned that a lack of medical supplies in Iraq, Sudan and Yemen could lead to a surge in prices.....
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S. Korea mulling sending chartered flight to South Sudan to bring home some troopsSouth Korea is considering sending a chartered flight to South Sudan to bring back some of its peacekeeping troops amid coronavirus concerns, the defense ministry said Monday. About 210 rotational troops of the 270-strong Hanbit Unit are expected to....
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S. Korea to bring home part of rotational troops from South SudanSouth Korea will bring back part of its troops from South Sudan without sending a replacement contingent for the time being due to coronavirus concerns, government sources said Wednesday. The decision to bring home about 210 troops of the 270-strong....
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U.N. report calls for political mission in DarfurUNITED NATIONS – A joint UN-African Union report released Monday, March 16, on Sudan and Darfur called for a political mission to replace the peace operation there, raising fears by rights groups that civilians could lose all protection.
The United Nations Security Council will meet on March 26....
Ethiopia won't be forced by US on dam, foreign minister saysADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia refuses to be pressured by the United States into signing a deal with Egypt and Sudan over its controversial dam on the Nile River, says Ethiopia's foreign minister.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Gedu Andargachew said the three countries need t....
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[Graphic News] Huge locust outbreak in East Africa The worst locust outbreak that parts of East Africa have seen in 70 years has reached South Sudan, a country where roughly half the population already faces hunger after years of civil war, officials announced. Around 2,000 locusts were spotted insi....
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Saudi Arabia suspends flight services to India, EU, other countriesSaudi Arabia has temporarily suspended travel of citizens and residents and halted flights with several states due to coronavirus fears, state news agency SPA said on Thursday citing an official source at Interior Ministry. The decision includes the European Union, Switzerland, India, Pakistan, Sri....
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Saudi Arabia suspends travel to and from Sri LankaSaudi Arabia has temporarily suspended travel of citizens and residents and halted flights with several states, including Sri Lanka due to coronavirus fears. An official from the Interior Ministry said the decision includes the European Union, Switzerland, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Su....
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Sudan moves against Bashir loyalists after assassination attemptSudan's ruling council said Tuesday it would step up its drive to remove loyalists of former president Omar al-Bashir, a day after the prime minister of the transitional government escaped an assassination attempt unscathed.....
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Sudan's PM survives assassination attempt after explosionSudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has survived an assassination attempt. His convoy was hit by an explosion as it passed through Khartoum. Report by Barnesj. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn....
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Sudan's post-uprising PM unharmed in assassination bidSudan's post-uprising Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok survived unharmed after a bomb and gun attack targeted his convoy Monday on the way to work in the capital Khartoum, officials and state media said.....
