Chad’s President Mahamat Idriss Déby has told warring Sudan’s military rivals during a peace summit in Egypt that the plight of civilians caught up in the conflict should not be forgotten. More than 230,000 people out of 700,000 who have fled Sudan are now in Chad. Inside Sudan more...
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BEIRUT, July 14 (Reuters) – Syrians who fled President Bashar al-Assad’s rule fear he may soon be able to choke off badly needed aid as Damascus acts to establish sway over U.N. assistance into the rebel-held northwest, the last major bastion of the Syrian opposition. A tussle...
Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has urged the warring parties in Sudan to stop fighting for talks and to ensure safe passage for the delivery of humanitarian aid. During his opening speech at a summit on the conflict, which is being held in Cairo, he said they were the top two...
Syria is to allow UN humanitarian aid into rebel-held territory through its main border crossing which closed amid a political impasse at the UN, its ambassador there has said. Some 4.1 million people in north-west Syria depend on the aid deliveries. The UN Security council, which has...
Russia has threatened to end UN cross-border aid deliveries to millions of people in rebel-held north-west Syria, after the Security Council failed to pass two resolutions authorising them. Russia, an ally of Syria’s government, vetoed a nine-month extension for the use of the Bab...