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Two months after Ukraine’s defense of Bakhmut seemed doomed, the bloodiest battle of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine is still going against all expectations. A Ukrainian soldier looks out of a rooftop window in the direction of Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, on April 11, 2023. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Making rapid advances at […]

Intense battles leave staff and patients trapped in hospitals for days as doctors try to treat an influx of wounded despite depleting resources. A ward at a hospital in el-Fasher in North Darfur is crowded with people wounded in more than a week of fighting between Sudan’s army and the RSF paramilitary [File: Ali Shukur/MSF/AFP] […]

HARTOUM) – On Tuesday, Shams al-Din Kabbashi, a member of the Transitional Sovereign Council in Sudan, accused two neighbouring countries of providing military support to the Rapid Support Forces (SRF). International and regional organisations have called for an immediate end of the fighting in the capital Khartoum between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary forces. […]

Joint Statement by International Partners on the situation in Laascaanood and Somaliland elections following a joint call with H.E. the President of Somaliland, Muse Bihi Abdi, on 15 April 2023 A group of 15 International Partners (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Türkiye, United Kingdom, and the United […]

Russian occupiers have prepared 1,800 tanks, 3,950 armoured vehicles, 2,700 artillery systems, 810 multiple-rocket-launch systems, 400 fighter jets, and 300 helicopters ready for a new offensive operation in Ukraine. Source: Foreign Policy, citing a Ukrainian military official, speaking on condition of anonymity Quote: “Russia has also begun arming up and digging in for a coming offensive. The […]

April 17, 2023 (KHARTOUM) – At least 97 civilians have been killed in Sudan since the outbreak of armed conflict in the Sudanese capital between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on April 15. On Sunday, the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) intensified its attacks on the RSF positions in the capital […]

April 15, 2023 (KHARTOUM) – The Rapid Support Forces said on Saturday that they took control of several strategic positions in Khartoum amid conflicting reports about who started hostilities. Smoke in the sky after attacks in Suba southern Khartoum on April 15, 2023 Clashes broke out in Khartoum and northern Sudan between the army and […]

Dozens of Danish Cold War-era tanks might reach Ukraine in time for Kyiv’s long-awaited offensive, and probably they’ll be at least a match for anything Russian they might come up against. Danish Leopard 1A5 tanks engage targets at a firing range. Jan. 31 image from the Danish military publication OLFI. A Copenhagen-led three-nation coalition plans […]

Armed FBI officers converged on the home of a Massachusetts Air National Guard member considered to be the main person of interest in the leak of top secret military documents on the Ukraine war. Police block a road in North Dighton, Massachusetts, Thursday, April 13, 2023.   –  Copyright  Michelle R. Smith /Copyright 2023 The AP. All […]

Visiting UN chief Antonio Guterres appealed yesterday for significant international support for Somalia as it battles a desperate humanitarian crisis caused by “a perfect storm” of drought and protracted armed conflict. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud attend a joint news conference at the Presidential palace in Mogadishu, yesterday. Visiting UN […]