Ex-Mubarak minister Mohamed Mansour donates £5m to Tories
Tory senior treasurer Mansour says he wants to assist ‘very capable prime minister’ Rishi Sunak UK politics live – latest updates The Conservatives have accepted...
Category : Middle East and North Africa
Sudan weeklong ceasefire to take effect to allow delivery of humanitarian aid
Deal to stop fighting comes as journalists’ syndicate accuses paramilitary group of targeting reporters A weeklong ceasefire in Sudan intended to allow the delivery of...
Sudan’s warring factions sign agreement for seven-day ceasefire
US and Saudi Arabia announce deal that comes after six weeks of fighting between Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces Sudan’s warring factions signed...
‘No one saw this level of devastation coming’: climate crisis worsens in Somalia
Torrential rain, coming on top of the country’s worst drought in four decades, has forced 250,000 people to leave their homes Jamal Ali Abdi has...
‘On every corner someone disappears’: the frantic search for Sudan’s missing
Since fighting erupted last month, dozens of people have vanished, but communities are organising to find and bring them home Kamal Ali Osman sent a...
‘The city was underwater’: quarter of a million Somalis flee flooded homes
Climate crisis a key factor in flash flooding of Beledweyne as rains end drought and Shabelle River breaks its banks Floods have caused almost a...
European leaders urged to help Tunisians resist assault on democracy
International academics join effort to highlight crackdown on freedom after jailing of opposition leader, Rached Ghannouchi European powers must stand by pro-democracy Tunisians resisting a...
Airstrikes hit Khartoum as fighting between Sudanese factions intensifies
Rapid Support Forces claim to have captured 700 soldiers at base during new battles in and around capital Airstrikes and artillery fire shook much of...
Tunisian journalist given five-year prison term in ‘attack on press freedom’
Union says increased sentence against Khalifa Guesmi under anti-terrorism law represents ‘dangerous authoritarian drift’ A Tunisian appeals court has sentenced a radio journalist to five...
Sudan: Reports of women being raped in Khartoum by armed men
Refugees are among those receiving support since civil war broke out last month – and officials believes more sexual assault cases are going unreported There...
