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4/26/2023 3:39:44 PM
Earlier this month, Wissam Moustafa travelled from the United States to Sudan to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr holiday with family, only to be caught up in fierce fighting between warring generals.
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4/26/2023 1:58:43 PM
A wanted Sudanese war crimes suspect has confirmed that he and other members of the Islamist regime ousted in 2019 have escaped from prison during recent fighting, raising new fears for a fragile ceasefire that has enabled foreigners to flee.
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4/26/2023 12:31:48 PM
U.N. officials said late Tuesday that one side in the Sudan conflict has seized control of a national health lab in the capital of Khartoum that holds biological material, calling it an “extremely dangerous” development.
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4/26/2023 9:57:58 AM
Sudanese and foreigners streamed out of the capital of Khartoum and other battle zones, as fighting Tuesday shook a new three-day truce brokered by the United States and Saudi Arabia. Aid agencies raised increasing alarm over the crumbling humanitarian situation in a country reliant on outside help.
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4/24/2023 7:13:44 PM
As continued fighting raises fears that Sudan could plunge deeper into chaos, foreign governments are scrambling to get their diplomats and other citizens safely out of the country. Most countries deployed military transport aircraft to fly people out, including France which used its airbase in neighboring Djibouti for the airlift. But not all is going smoothly – about 2,000 British nationals remain in Sudan, and many complain that their government isn’t giving them enough information about evacuation plans.
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4/24/2023 4:29:54 PM
The UN secretary-general warned Monday that the violence between warring parties in Sudan "could engulf the whole region and beyond", in a Security Council's meeting.
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4/24/2023 4:14:25 PM
Ibrahim Mohamed turned in his hospital bed to find the patient next to him had died, but fighting that had erupted in Sudan's capital hours earlier meant the body could not be moved.
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4/24/2023 4:12:00 PM
The Sudanese Armed Forces announced, Monday, that the operational situation is remarkably stable, stressing that it is gradually expanding its efforts to secure the capital Khartoum to avoid damaging the residential areas, according to the German Press Agency (DPA).
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4/24/2023 12:51:01 PM
As foreign governments airlifted hundreds of their diplomats and other citizens from Sudan, Sudanese on Monday desperately sought ways to escape the chaos amid fears the country’s two rival generals could escalate their all-out battle for power once evacuations were completed.
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4/18/2023 8:30:04 PM
Libyans have a "historic opportunity" to tackle the political crisis that has haunted the country since 2011, the UN's special ambassador to Libya said Tuesday, still hoping for elections later this year.
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4/18/2023 5:10:00 PM
The Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have agreed on Tuesday afternoon on a 24-hour ceasefire, which was proposed by international community, to start at 6pm Khartoum Local Time (GMT+2).
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4/17/2023 9:34:00 PM
Fighting between the army and paramilitaries in Sudan has killed around 200 people and wounded 1,800, left hospitals damaged and medical supplies and food in short supply Monday after three days of urban warfare.
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4/16/2023 1:41:00 PM
Intense fighting gripped Sudan's capital on Saturday, 18 months after a military coup that derailed a democratic transition and brought further upheaval to the east African country.
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4/16/2023 11:08:46 AM
The Sudanese military and a powerful paramilitary group battled for control of the chaos-stricken nation for a second day Sunday, signaling they were unwilling to end hostilities despite mounting diplomatic pressure to cease fire.
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4/9/2023 8:51:35 PM
Kuwait announced a new government on Sunday, its seventh in three years of deep political crisis between parliament and the executive.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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4/7/2023 12:51:00 PM
While leading Sudanese figures remain at loggerheads, the people’s eyes are now fixed on the agreement meant to settle the political crisis.
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3/27/2023 2:58:48 PM
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed judicial overhaul has unleashed the most intense social unrest in Israel in decades.
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3/27/2023 12:00:38 PM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's religious-nationalist coalition government on Monday survived no-confidence motions filed by the opposition in protest over its judicial overhaul plan.
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3/27/2023 10:27:00 AM
Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday called for an immediate halt to the government's controversial judicial reforms, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sacked his defence minister for similar demands.
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3/26/2023 11:03:12 AM
A seemingly never-ending political crisis is plunging oil-rich Kuwait's economy into the mire, affecting basic services and causing mounting public concern.
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