Aid trucks enter civil war-torn Darfur as Sudan army eases restrictions | Humanitarian Crises News

Aid trucks enter civil war-torn Darfur as Sudan army eases restrictions | Humanitarian Crises News

World Food Programme says a small convoy carrying food enters Sudan via a temporarily reopened border crossing with Chad. The World Food Programme (WFP) says a convoy of humanitarian aid has entered the Sudanese region of Darfur, offering temporary respite after Sudan’s forces sealed sections of the border with Chad…

Ukraine adopts ‘historic’ law to ban Moscow-linked Orthodox Church | Russia-Ukraine war News

Ukraine adopts ‘historic’ law to ban Moscow-linked Orthodox Church | Russia-Ukraine war News

Kyiv has accused the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of complicity in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine has adopted a law to ban religious groups linked to Moscow in a move targeting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which the government has accused of complicity in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The parliament…

After COVID and Ebola, doctors take on mpox amid conflict in eastern DRC | Health News

After COVID and Ebola, doctors take on mpox amid conflict in eastern DRC | Health News

Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo – It’s dawn at the mpox treatment site at Nyiragongo General Referral Hospital, north of the city of Goma, and Congolese medics are already hard at work, calmly and efficiently screening, isolating and caring for patients infected with the disease. Two days prior, the…

Sudan war mediators welcome new pledges on humanitarian access | Conflict News

Sudan war mediators welcome new pledges on humanitarian access | Conflict News

Countries call for ‘unhindered’ access to respond to growing humanitarian crisis in war-torn African nation. The international mediators engaged in talks to bring Sudan’s war to an end have welcomed decisions by the warring sides to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian relief to the country. In a joint statement on…

Russia says Ukraine used Western weapons to destroy bridge in Kursk | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia says Ukraine used Western weapons to destroy bridge in Kursk | Russia-Ukraine war News

Moscow says destruction of bridge in western Russia will hinder the evacuation of civilians amid Ukrainian incursion. Russia has accused Ukraine of using Western rockets – likely made in the United States – to target a strategic bridge over the Seym River in the Kursk region, killing volunteers trying to…

Suicide bomber kills 16 soldiers in southern Yemen, official says | Conflict News

Suicide bomber kills 16 soldiers in southern Yemen, official says | Conflict News

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claims responsibility for the attack that targeted STC fighters in Abyan. A suicide bomber has killed 16 Yemeni pro-government soldiers and wounded 18 others in a military post in the southern province of Abyan, local authorities have said. The attacker “drove a booby-trapped car into…

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 903 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 903 | Russia-Ukraine war News

As the war enters its 903rd day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Friday, August 16, 2024. Fighting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine had taken full control of the town of Sudzha in Russia’s Kursk region, after sending thousands of troops across the border in a…