The bodies of 13 migrants have been recovered from a boat off the Greek island of Crete, the Greek coast guard said on Monday. A further 18 people were rescued, with four taken to hospital.
Millions displaced by Sudan's civil war risk losing access to emergency shelter as funding shortages leave aid warehouses empty, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned on Friday.
The UN has warned that intensifying drone strikes on Sudan’s power and fuel infrastructure are disrupting vital hospital services and water supplies, as a deepening diplomatic rift with Ethiopia raises fears of wider regional instability.
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More than 150 people have been killed in a drone strike on a crowded market in the disputed Abyei region, South Sudanese officials said, marking one of the deadliest attacks linked to Sudan's civil war since it began in April 2023.
World leaders are gathering in New York for the UN General Assembly as the world faces one of its most challenging periods in decades. The high-level debates begin Tuesday against the backdrop of wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, AI, climate change and the race for a new UN chief.
The United Nations has called for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan, warning that escalating drone warfare and attacks on civilian infrastructure are deepening the country's already devastating humanitarian crisis.
A record number of humanitarian workers were killed, injured or kidnapped in 2025, with the growing use of armed drones contributing to mounting risks in conflict zones, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
For months, efforts to secure the Red Sea have focused on what is happening in the water. Naval deployments have increased, governments have expanded maritime cooperation and shipping companies have adapted to persistent security threats.
Cancer patients in Sudan are struggling to access life-saving treatment as soaring medication costs, power shortages and damaged hospital infrastructure deepen the country's healthcare crisis after more than three years of war.
Sudan has reopened its National Museum in Khartoum, marking an important milestone in the country's efforts to restore its cultural heritage after years of conflict.
Women and girls in Sudan's Al-Obeid face a dire choice between the threat of drone attacks during the day and sexual violence when they go out to fetch water in the besieged city, UN Women reports.
In el-Obeid, the capital of Sudan's North Kordofan state, residents are contending with a month of intense drone attacks, a near-total siege and the spread of a disease that has already killed 120 people elsewhere in the country.
A Sudanese court has sentenced Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, and 15 other defendants to death in absentia over crimes committed during the conflict in West Darfur.
A cholera outbreak in Sudan is at risk of spiralling further as fighting, mass displacement and the start of the rainy season make it harder to contain the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.
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A United Nations investigation has concluded that Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed atrocities amounting to genocide during their siege and capture of el-Fasher in North Darfur last year, while concern is mounting that similar abuses could be unfolding around al-Obeid.
Another human rights catastrophe is unfolding around the besieged Sudanese city of al-Obeid, the United Nations human rights chief warned on Friday, raising alarm over mounting atrocities and the risk of a worsening humanitarian disaster.
A worsening cholera outbreak and escalating violence are deepening Sudan's humanitarian crisis, with more than 700 suspected cholera cases and 105 deaths reported in West Kordofan since mid-May, according to health authorities.
Sudan's military leadership has welcomed a growing number of defections from the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF), reshaping alliances in the country's civil war while raising concerns among civilians and human rights groups over accountability for alleged wartime abuses.
Farmers in Sudan say the war involving Iran is pushing up fuel and fertiliser prices, forcing many to cut back on planting and threatening food production in a country already struggling with widespread hunger.
Sudan’s armed forces have accused the United Arab Emirates and Ethiopia of carrying out a drone attack targeting Khartoum airport, as a renewed wave of strikes shattered months of relative calm in the capital nearly three years into the civil war.
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