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UN Security Council demands end to Sudan’s city siege

The UN Security Council has demanded that Sudanese paramilitary forces call off their eight-week siege of El Fasher, a city in Darfur region where fighting has sparked genocide concerns. Sudan’s army has been fighting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than a year, in a civil war that has killed thousands and forced […]

Transitional council in Haiti selects new PM for country under siege by gangs

Garry Conille has been named Haiti’s new prime minister, nearly a month after a coalition within a fractured transitional council had chosen someone else for the position. The long-awaited move comes as gangs continue to terrorise the capital of Port-au-Prince, opening fire in once peaceful neighbourhoods and using heavy machinery to demolish several police stations […]

130 people die at Sudan hospital amid city siege

Over 130 people have died at a single hospital in Sudan’s besieged city of El Fasher, in the Darfur region, according to medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Fighting between rival groups in Sudan’s civil war in the battle for control of the city has recently intensified. The situation was “terrible,” one resident told the […]

Fear and prayers in Sudan city under siege

The threat of invasion darkens the daily struggle for life in El Fasher, the main city in Sudan’s western Darfur region and the last major urban centre still under the army’s control. “We all live in absolute fear and constant worry of what awaits us in the coming days,” says Osman Mohammed, a 31-year-old English […]

Gangs lay siege to neighbourhoods in fresh outbreak of violence in Haiti

Gangs in Haiti laid siege to several neighbourhoods in Port-au-Prince, burning homes and exchanging gunfire with police for hours as hundreds fled the violence early on Thursday in one of the biggest attacks since Haiti’s new prime minister was announced. The attacks began late on Wednesday in neighbourhoods including Solino and Delmas 18, 20 and […]

Amid warnings that siege is causing famine, children begin to die in Gaza

After months of warnings over the risk of famine in Gaza under Israel’s bombardment, offensives and siege, children are starting to die. Hunger is most acute in northern Gaza, which has been isolated by Israeli forces and has suffered long cut-offs of food supply deliveries. At least 20 people have died from malnutrition and dehydration […]

Amid warnings that siege is causing famine, children begin to die in Gaza

After months of warnings over the risk of famine in Gaza under Israel’s bombardment, offensives and siege, children are starting to die. Hunger is most acute in northern Gaza, which has been isolated by Israeli forces and has suffered long cut-offs of food supply deliveries. At least 20 people have died from malnutrition and dehydration […]

Israel bombards Gaza, with biggest functioning hospital under siege

* Nasser Hospital in focus as war rages * Five die in intensive care as power, oxygen cut * Palestinians fear Rafah offensive By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO, Feb 16 (Reuters) – Gaza’s largest functioning hospital was under siege on Friday in Israel’s war with Islamist group Hamas, leaving patients and doctors helpless in the chaos, […]