U.N. Panel Calls for International Force in Sudan to Protect Civilians
The country’s brutal civil war has led to the killing, rape and torture of civilians, including children, as it threatens to destabilize neighboring countries.
The country’s brutal civil war has led to the killing, rape and torture of civilians, including children, as it threatens to destabilize neighboring countries.
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NPR’s Adrian Ma speaks with Cerian Richmond Jones of The Economist about the decision by Nigerian and Ethiopian governments to float their respective currencies.
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Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi holds the 2,492-carat diamond that was unearthed at one of its mines and will be put on show, on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024, in Gaborone.
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GABORONE, Botswana — The largest diamond found in more than a century has been unearthed at a mine in Botswana, and the country’s president showed off the fist-sized stone to the world at a viewing ceremony Thursday.
The Botswana government says the huge 2,492-carat diamond is the second-biggest ever discovered in a mine. It’s the biggest diamond found since 1905.
The as-yet-unnamed diamond was presented to the world at the office of Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi. It weighs approximately half a kilogram and Masisi was one of the first to get to hold it.
“It is overwhelming,” Masisi said. “I am lucky to have seen it in my time.” He gasped and said “wow” before calling senior government officials over to ..
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Hawa Miso, 70, collects leaves to use as vegetables on the hillside near the Rabang camp for internally displaced persons in Rabang, in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains. Approximately 10 million Sudanese have been displaced by the civil war that broke out in 2023. A team of experts backed by the United Nations believes the country is experiencing famine. But the government does not agree.
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Is there famine in Sudan?
This month a group of United Nations-backed experts looked at the data and concluded the answer is yes.
But no official declaration of famine has been made.
As it turns out, making such a pronouncement comes with its own set of rules and regulations.
So … what constitutes a famineLet’s start with a definition.
In the 1980s, a series of devastating famines struck several countries in Africa — including the infamous famine in Ethiopia in..
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August 19, 202410:40 AM ET
Some 12 million people are displaced in Sudan as the military government battles a powerful paramilitary group. There is acute hunger and risk of famine for many. Peace talks hoping to resolve the crisis are being held in Geneva this week. We hear about the chances that those talks will succeed and details about conditions on the ground in Sudan.
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Sudan’s civil war grinds on, with outside actors accused of fueling the conflict. A growing focus is on the United Arab Emirates, which denies the accusation.
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NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan, Tom Perriello, about peace talks aimed at ending the Sudanese civil war, which has led to famine in parts of the country.
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August 16, 20244:41 PM ET
The government of Sudan has not made an official declaration of famine and denies that famine exists. Aid groups are concerned that without a declaration, international resources won’t be mobilized.
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August 14, 20243:34 AM ET
Peace talks aimed at ending Sudan’s war are expected to start in Geneva Wednesday — as the United Nations warns of an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe.
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Russian sources: Ukraine has destroyed or damaged all three bridges over Russia’s Seym River
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FILE – Collins Jumaisi Khalusha leaves court in Nairobi, Kenya, July 16, 2024. Khalusha, who police say confessed to killing 42 women, escaped Tuesday from a police station along 12 other inmates.
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Nigeria had a terrible showing at the Olympics. Its athletes say they were failed by corruption and mismanagement by the nation’s sports officials.
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August 7, 20244:03 AM ET
Kenya’s antigovernment protestors have a new soundtrack and words of poets to help galvanize their burgeoning movement.
August 3, 20242:14 PM ET
An ambulance is seen on the beach following an attack in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Saturday.
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At least 32 people were killed and 63 others were wounded in an attack that included a suicide bombing and gunfire in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, according to police.
The assault, which began late Friday, took placenear a hotel on Lido Beach, a popular hangout spot for Mogadishu residents. A police spokesperson said one soldier died and the rest of the deceased and injured were civilians.
Islamic extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the Friday attack. Three insurgents died in a gunfight with law enforcement while one was captured alive, according to police.
A woman reacts while walking in a street as smoke billows in the background from an explosive-laden car diffused by the Somali police in Mogadishu on Saturday.
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August 3, 20248:29 AM ET
Nigerians in several major cities are protesting government economic policies that are causing inflation and hunger.
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In Nigeria, even two meals a day is becoming unaffordable to many. Demonstrators are protesting food inflation of more than 40 percent, and fuel costs that have tripled. And in China, live-streamers digitally clone themselves, raising questions about the future of labor in the age of A.I.
Enlarge this imageLabour unionists march in the streets of Lagos, Nigeria on Friday to protest the soaring cost of living under the West African nation’s new president.
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Labour unionists march in the streets of Lagos, Nigeria on Friday to protest the soaring cost of living under the West African nation’s new president.
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Nigeria has one of Africa’s largest economies but is seeing record rates of child malnutrition. Aid groups call it a nearly unprecedented crisis.
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A woman protest against hardship on the street of Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. Thousands of mostly young people poured onto the streets across Nigeria on Thursday as they protested against the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. Security forces fired tear gas to disperse some of the protesters in the capital, Abuja.
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LAGOS, Nigeria -At least seven people have been killed in Nigeria during nationwide protests against the rising cost of living and bad governance. Thousands of protestors have held demonstrations in several Nigerian cities. In some cities, the demonstrations were met with a heavy police presence.
Six people were killed in the city of Minna, northern Nigeria, when police moved to dismantle a roadblock protesters had erected, blocking a major expressway. Another person was killed in the populous northern state of Kano, as police clashed with demonstr..
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Protests turn violent as UK unrest spreads after children’s killings
FILE – Protesters confront police oduring a protest in Whitehall, London, on July 31, 2024, following the fatal stabbing of three children at a dance and yoga class on Monday in Southport. Protesters attacked police and started fires in the city of Sunderland on Friday.
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India’s plans to produce oil palm domestically including in Assam sees setbacks as lack of processing units ruin crops.
WinRed is allegedly overcharging and prompting recurring donations from elderly donors through deceptive practices.
An Israeli air strike killed Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul and his cameraman Rami al-Rifi.
Katie Ledecky wins eighth gold medal as France’s Leon Marchand wins unprecedented two 200m swimming golds in a session.
Qatar, Egypt and the US have been key mediators in talks between Israel and Hamas to end the war in Gaza.
White House slams former president’s attack on Democratic 2024 rival’s identity as ‘repulsive’ and ‘insulting’.
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People find new ways to grow food after severe drought in some regions of Ethiopia.
Judge OKs settlement in lawsuit over US detention of Iraqi nationals
FILE – Khloe Marogi, 8, of West Bloomfield, Mich., wears a T-shirt with her detained father’s photo on it at a rally on June 16, 2017, in Detroit. A judge approved a settlement in a lawsuit challenging the detentions.
UN Security Council meets over Middle East escalations
FILE – The U.N. Security Council meets at the organization’s headquarters, July 13, 2023. It heard on July 31, 2024, an Iranian appeal for considering sanctions against Israel in the killing of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
US veteran arrested for role in failed Venezuelan coup
FILE – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro speaks at the Supreme Court of Justice in Caracas, Venezuela, July 31, 2024. U.S. officials announced Wednesday the arrest of a U.S. veteran who has claimed responsibility for an armed raid in 2020 that failed to remove Maduro.
Superstars Marchand, Ledecky light up Olympic pool
Leon Marchand of France celebrates after winning the men’s 200-meter breaststroke final at the 2024 Summer Olympics, July 31, 2024, in Nanterre, France.