Sweden Increases Humanitarian Aid with 775 Million Kronor Package
The Government and Sida are now presenting a package of 775 million kronor in humanitarian aid. The focus is on more support to Ukraine and life-saving efforts.
Swedish politicsThe Government and Sida are now presenting a package of 775 million kronor in humanitarian aid. The focus is on more support to Ukraine and life-saving efforts.
Swedish politicsA drone attack on a market in the besieged city of al-Fashir in western Sudan has killed 15 people.
ConflictsAt least 75 people have been killed in an attack on a mosque that served as a residence for internally displaced persons in the Sudanese Darfur. Their remains were pulled out of the rubble after the drone attack, according to information from the aid organization Emergency Response Room.
ConflictsAt least 50 refugees from war-torn Sudan perished when the boat they were traveling in caught fire off the coast of Libya, according to the UN's migration organization IOM.
WorldSudan's government rejects a peace proposal that warring parties in the ongoing civil war in the country should be excluded from power in a transition to civilian rule.
World politicsUSA, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Egypt on Friday called for a three-month humanitarian ceasefire in Sudan, followed by a permanent ceasefire and a nine-month transition to civilian rule.
ConflictsMembers of an anti-Islamic motorcycle gang in the USA have been recruited to guard humanitarian aid shipments in the Gaza Strip, reports BBC. Several of them have leading roles in the security effort where hundreds of civilian aid seekers have been killed in chaotic scenes.
ConflictsEthiopia has now inaugurated Africa's largest hydroelectric dam. The controversial giant facility "Gerd" is intended, among other things, to help the transition to electric cars in the country, which is the first in the world to ban new petrol-powered vehicles.
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