The United States is preparing to send additional troops to nearby Djibouti in case an evacuation of Americans from Sudan is needed. The United States is preparing to send a large number of additional troops to its military base in Djibouti in case of an eventual emergency evacuation from Sudan of American citizens. Forces commanded…
Text by : NEWS WIRES | Video by : FRANCE 24 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to Sudan’s warring factions to observe a ceasefire over the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday to allow civilians to reach safe areas as rival forces battled for a sixth day on Thursday. Thousands of civilians streamed out of the capital Khartoum as…
Text by : NEWS WIRES Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said it had agreed to a 72-hour truce on humanitarian grounds, effective from 6 a.m. local time on Friday, offering a potential respite from a six-day military conflict with the Sudanese army. The capital, Khartoum, was rocked by bombing and shelling earlier on Friday. There was no immediate comment from the…
Summary The outages continue to hold back economic activity, with economists warning that growth could contract significantly. The energy situation is so dire that experts warn the country could be on the brink of a widespread collapse of its electricity grid. Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa has already warned people to brace for a dark and…
Summary Hemedti’s fighting skills were honed when his loyalists and other irregulars allied with Sudan’s government to help quash a rebellion in Darfur that had erupted in 2003. Burhan now in his early 60s, has proved a deft political operator after rising under Bashir before also dumping him. For now, the battle for Khartoum rages…
By Pumza Fihlani BBC News, Johannesburg The daring prison break, the celebrity girlfriend and the escape across borders had all the elements of a fictional thriller. But in some ways that tempting description serves to glamorise and trivialise what South African rapist and murderer Thabo Bester actually did. While many were open-mouthed after each revelation…
By Rédaction Africanews RSF – SUDAN Sixth day of fighting in Sudan as ceasefire between the army and the powerful paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) failed. This is the second ceasefire they have broken. Thousands of residents have fled the capital, Khartoum. So have some 320 soldiers who were detained in neighbouring Chad. “I…
By Rédaction Africanews CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Authorities in the Central African Republic alleged Wednesday that a leading rebel group was behind the murder of nine Chinese gold miners last month, despite denials by the insurgents. The rebels blamed the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, hired to protect several lucrative gold and diamond mines operated by Russian…
By Rédaction Africanews VLADIMIR PUTIN A Ukrainian Nobel peace prize winner on Wednesday called on South Africa not to allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend a BRICS summit in the country in August. Oleksandra Romantsova, the head of an NGO that became the winner of Ukraine’s first ever peace prize last year, urged the…
Text by : NEWS WIRES The Sudan army on Thursday said 177 Egyptian Air Force troops were airlifted back to Egypt after being held in the northern Sudanese town of Merowe by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The Sudanese army said in a statement the Egyptians were evacuated from the northern town Dongola via four Egyptian military planes.…