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DRC Health Workers Describe Hardship and Unpaid Wages as Ebola Outbreak Resurges

Health workers on the front lines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak say they are confronting a deepening crisis marked by unpaid wages, persistent danger of infection and, in some cases, violent hostility from the communities they are trying to protect. Their accounts, gathered from responders in affected areas, paint a […]

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Food emergency deepens across Uganda’s Karamoja region

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A deepening food emergency is unfolding across Uganda’s Karamoja sub-region, where prolonged drought, erratic rainfall, and persistent insecurity are pushing already vulnerable communities closer to the brink of hunger. Humanitarian organizations operating in the area have raised alarm over worsening conditions affecting hundreds of thousands of people in one of the country’s most marginalised regions.

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UN Warns of Deepening Hunger Among Displaced Families in Sudan’s El Obeid

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United Nations humanitarians have raised fresh alarm over rapidly deteriorating food insecurity among displaced families sheltering in camps in El Obeid, a major city in Sudan’s North Kordofan state. According to UN officials, more than 100,000 people who have fled ongoing conflict across the country are now living in the city under increasingly desperate conditions,

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Sudan’s war reshapes national demographics as displacement reshuffles population

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Sudan’s prolonged conflict has profoundly reshaped the country’s demographic landscape, emptying entire regions of their populations while placing immense strain on the urban centres that have absorbed waves of displaced people, according to a Sudanese government minister. The remarks underscore the scale of the population upheaval accompanying one of Africa’s most severe humanitarian crises. A

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UN warns of deepening humanitarian crisis as El-Obeid remains under RSF siege

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The United Nations has sounded the alarm over a rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in El-Obeid, a major city in central Sudan that has come under a prolonged siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). As relentless strikes continue and essential infrastructure collapses, civilians inside the city are reporting growing desperation, with food running low

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European Parliament urges EU states to designate Sudan’s RSF as a terrorist organization

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The European Parliament has adopted a resolution urging EU member states to formally designate Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as a terrorist organization, in a significant escalation of European pressure over the spiraling conflict in Sudan. While the measure is non-binding, it carries considerable political weight and reflects a hardening stance among European lawmakers

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Sudan’s War-Weary Communities Confront New Cholera Outbreak

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A fresh cholera outbreak is sweeping through war-torn Sudan, killing more than 100 people and deepening the humanitarian emergency confronting civilians already battered by months of armed conflict. The resurgence of the waterborne disease has raised alarm among aid workers who warn that collapsing health infrastructure and restricted access to clean water are accelerating the

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UN Raises Alarm Over ‘Siege-Like Conditions’ in Sudan’s El-Obeid

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El-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan state in central Sudan, has been under what the United Nations human rights chief described as “siege-like conditions” for approximately 18 months, raising fresh concerns about a potential humanitarian catastrophe in one of the key front-line cities of Sudan’s protracted civil war. A city under pressure El-Obeid has long

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El-Obeid under RSF siege raises fears of a repeat of el-Fasher

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The United Nations has issued a stark warning of a potential humanitarian catastrophe in the Sudanese city of el-Obeid, where the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have tightened their siege in recent weeks. International observers fear the situation could mirror the atrocities documented in el-Fasher last year, where civilians were caught in a protracted siege

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ICRC warns civilian suffering in Sudan is avoidable as fighting persists in Khartoum and al-Obeid

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The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has underlined that the widespread civilian suffering caused by Sudan’s ongoing conflict is not an unavoidable consequence of war, but rather the result of a failure to uphold established protections for non-combatants. The remarks were made during a recent interview by Mateo Jaramillo Ortega, the organisation’s regional

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Escaping Darfur: Mothers Face Starvation Under Trees in Chad

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Women and children who have fled the western Sudanese region of Darfur are sheltering under sparse trees along Chad’s eastern border, where aid workers describe conditions of severe hunger and growing desperation. The refugees, many of them mothers who walked for days to escape violence in their homeland, say they have been left with little

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UN agencies raise alarm over Ebola outbreak in Africa and El Niño-linked food crisis

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Senior officials from the United Nations and international humanitarian organisations convened in Geneva on Monday to draw attention to a cluster of escalating crises, including a deteriorating Ebola outbreak in Africa and a looming food emergency driven in part by El Niño weather patterns. The discussions highlighted the growing strain on global humanitarian response systems

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