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Apr
16
2024
By The African Mirror
Sudan’s year-old war: The build-up and the turmoil

Sudan’s year-old war: The build-up and the turmoil

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
SUDAN is now a year into a war between rival military factions that has killed thousands, forced millions to flee and created a humanitarian catastrophe. Below is a timeline of the events that led up to the conflict and the turmoil that followed: THE BUILD-UP Dec. 19, 2018 - Hundreds protest in the northern city of Atbara against soaring bread prices. Demonstrations spurred by a broader economic crisis soon spread to Khartoum and other cities. Security services respond with tear gas and gunfire. April 6, 2019 - Hundreds of thousands begin a sit-in outside army headquarters in Khartoum. Five days later the…
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Mar
05
2024
By JEFF MASON
Kamala Harris calls out Israel over ‘catastrophe’ in Gaza

Kamala Harris calls out Israel over ‘catastrophe’ in Gaza

WORLD
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris bluntly called out Israel for not doing enough to ease a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza as the Biden administration faces increasing pressure to rein in its close ally while it wages war with Hamas militants. Harris, speaking in front of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where state troopers beat U.S. civil rights marchers nearly six decades ago, called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and urged Hamas to accept a deal to release hostages in return for a 6-week cessation of hostilities. But she directed the bulk of her comments at Israel in…
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Jan
12
2024
By MOHAMMED SALEM, NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI and ANTHONY DEUTSCH
Netanyahu condemns ICJ genocide case; Gazans return to wasteland in north

Netanyahu condemns ICJ genocide case; Gazans return to wasteland in north

WORLD
BENJAMIN Netanyahu condemned South Africa's genocide case against Israel in Gaza as "hypocrisy and lies", as some Gazans returned to scenes of total devastation in the north of the enclave where Israeli forces have begun withdrawing. Three months of Israeli bombardment have laid much of the coastal enclave to waste, killing more than 23,000 people and driving nearly the entire population of 2.3 million Palestinians from their homes. An Israeli blockade has sharply restricted supplies of food, fuel and medicine, creating what the United Nations describes as a humanitarian catastrophe. Israel says its only means to defend itself is by eradicating…
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Dec
14
2023
By NIDAL AL-MUGHRABI and FADI SHANA
Israel suffers worst combat losses since October, diplomatic isolation

Israel suffers worst combat losses since October, diplomatic isolation

WORLD
 ISRAEL announced its worst combat losses for more than a month after an ambush in the ruins of Gaza City and faced growing diplomatic isolation as civilian deaths mounted and a humanitarian catastrophe worsened. Intense fighting was underway in both north and south Gaza, a day after the United Nations demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. U.S. President Joe Biden said Israel's "indiscriminate" bombing of civilians was costing international support. Warplanes again bombed the length of Gaza and aid officials said the arrival of winter rain worsened conditions for hundreds of thousands sleeping rough in makeshift tents. The vast majority of Gaza's…
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May
12
2023
By ADAM MAKARY and DINA SAKR
In Khartoum, civilians face desperate struggle to survive

In Khartoum, civilians face desperate struggle to survive

NEWS
SINCE fighting broke out in Sudan on April 15, Khartoum resident Omar says he and his father have not left their home and believe they are the only civilians left in the neighbourhood. They have limited themselves to one meal a day, hoping their dwindling food supplies will last a month longer. "After that, we don't know what we'll do except survive off water and dates," he said by phone from Sudan's embattled capital. While others have fled, they have stayed in Khartoum, in an area near the airport where there's been intense fighting because they did not want to abandon…
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Jan
20
2023
By The African Mirror
Al-Shabaab is just a symptom of Somalia’s tragedy – the causes are still in place

Al-Shabaab is just a symptom of Somalia’s tragedy – the causes are still in place

SPECIAL FEATURES: ANALYSIS
FOR at least 14 years now, the militant group Al-Shabaab has terrorised the southern region of Somalia. Its ambition is to impose a tyrannical dictatorship over the entire country through fear and brutality. To achieve its aims, it has sought to oust the Somali government and its foreign military allies. I have been a student of Somali political economy for over three decades. I predicted the collapse of the Somali state and political order 33 years ago. That analysis foretold the miserable conditions Somalis have endured since. The political and humanitarian catastrophe predates the terrorist group’s rise – thus, Al-Shabaab…
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Dec
06
2020
By The African Mirror
U.N. warns 2021 shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe

U.N. warns 2021 shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe

NEWS
MICHELLE NICHOLS NEXT year is shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe and rich countries must not trample poor countries in a "stampede for vaccines" to combat the coronavirus pandemic, top U.N. officials have told the 193-member U.N. General Assembly. World Food Programme (WFP) chief David Beasley and World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spoke during a special meeting on COVID-19, which emerged in China late last year and has so far infected 65 million globally. The pandemic, measures taken by countries to try to stop its spread and the economic impact have fueled a 40% increase in…
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