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UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Monday called on the international community to intervene immediately to stop more mass killings and other flagrant war crimes against civilians in Sudan. Türk said the call was necessary as the brutal Sudan war shows no signs of ending, “We can only expect worse to come” unless action is taken to halt the …

South Africa has moved to withdraw its peacekeepers deployed at the United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) after nearly three decades of service. President Cyril Ramaphosa, in a statement, said he informed UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on January 12 about the decision,. According to him, the decision is influenced by the need to …

The most volatile president in living memory is becoming ever more driven by the whiplash of his personal whims. The disciplined execution of the early months of President Donald Trump’s second term — when well-drafted executive orders reshaped Washington and America’s global priorities — are now a memory. Shuttering USAID, gutting the federal government, and assaulting the Ivy League curriculum …

Jimmy Lai leaves the Court of Final Appeal by prison van in Hong Kong, on February 1, 2021.Tyrone Siu/Reuters   Hong Kong — Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, ending a years-long legal battle that has come to define Beijing’s transformational crackdown on the once-freewheeling financial hub. The 78-year-old self-made billionaire was among the highest-profile …

The US negotiators will be led by special envoy Steve Witkoff (left), while the Iranian team is headed by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi Senior US and Iranian officials are expected to meet in Oman for direct talks in the coming hours, amid a crisis that has raised fears of a military confrontation between the two countries. The discussions come after …

  No countries from the region are represented, and the board could fragment global conflict response systems that include the AU. The Board of Peace launched by United States (US) President Donald Trump last month has been widely criticised as an attempt by America’s leader to usurp the United Nations (UN) Security Council. For sub-Saharan Africa, there is an additional …

From calls for his Republican party to “nationalize” voting to his repeated false claims of a stolen election, President Donald Trump is ramping up attacks on the electoral system ahead of this year’s US midterms. The latest idea from Trump — who still refuses to acknowledge his 2020 election defeat by Democrat Joe Biden — is to take responsibility for …

The U.S. government says it has deepened its military partnership with Nigeria by deploying a special force team in the country to flush out terrorists. Gen. Dagvin Anderson, Commander of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) disclosed this during a digital news conference on Tuesday. He said the decision follows the talks he earlier held in Rome with President Bola …

Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State, have agreed to testify in the congressional investigation into late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It comes days before a vote on whether to hold the couple in criminal contempt for refusing to appear before the House Oversight Committee after a months-long standoff. Bill Clinton was …

Russia launched its biggest missile and drone attack on Ukraine so far this year on Tuesday, according to Ukrainian authorities, cutting heat to tens of thousands of people and ending a brief reprieve agreed to by Moscow and Washington as Ukrainians grapple with plummeting winter temperatures. CNN staff in the capital Kyiv reported hearing several strong explosions in the city …