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KHARTOUM: Smoke plumes billow from a fire at a lumber warehouse in southern Khartoum in this file photo taken on June 7, 2023. — AFP

Sudan marks two years of war with no end in sight

KHARTOUM: Sudan on Tuesday marked two years of a war that has killed tens of thousands, displaced 13 million and triggered the world’s worst humanitarian crisis — with no sign of peace. Fighting erupted on April 15, 2023 between the regular army...

TAWILA, Sudan: People who fled the Zamzam camp for the internally displaced after it fell under RSF control, rest in a makeshift encampment in an open field near the town of Tawila in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region on April 13, 2025. — AFP

Survivors recount escape from attack on Sudan camp

TAWILA, Sudan: Amna Hussein didn’t stop when the bullet hit her hand. She kept on running as paramilitaries attacked Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan’s western Darfur region in the dead of night. “They entered Zamzam and started shooting at u...

LIBREVILLE: Gabon's junta chief Brice Oligui Nguema (center) celebrates winning the presidential in election, at his election campaign headquarters in Libreville on April 13, 2025. — AFP

Gabon’s coup leader wins election with 90.35% of vote

LIBREVILLE: Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a coup in Gabon in August 2023, won Saturday’s presidential election with 90.35 percent of votes cast, according to provisional results, the Central African country’s interior minister said on Sunday. The...

CAIRO: Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel Aty (center), Sudan's Foreign Minister Ali Yussef (center right) and Somalia's Foreign Minister Ahmed Moalim Fiqi (center left) pose for a group photo with other delegations before the opening session of the second ministerial meeting of the "Khartoum Process" in Cairo on April 9, 2025. -- AFP

Paramilitary strike in Sudan’s Darfur region kills 12

KHARTOUM: A strike by paramilitaries on El-Fasher, the last city in Sudan’s Darfur region not under their control, has killed at least 12 people, both the army and local activists said. The deaths are the latest among tens of thousands killed duri...

KHARTOUM: The charred remains of an aircraft are scattered in a hangar at Khartoum's airport, a day after it was cleared of Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters, on March 27, 2025. -- AFP

How social media is fanning tensions in South Sudan

NAIROBI: Misinformation and online hate speech is fuelling panic and division in South Sudan at a time of acute political tensions that observers fear could drive the country back to war. Ethnic divisions, particularly between the largest communitie...

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MoE assisting Kuwaiti students affected by US visa cancellations

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KUWAIT: The participants of the panel discussion pose for a group photo. - KUNA

Petrochemical sector crucial for Kuwait’s economic future

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KUWAIT: Officials pose for a group photo during the third ministerial meeting of the strategic dialogue between the GCC and Central Asian countries on April 16, 2025. - KUNA

GCC, Central Asia eye deeper ties

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NEW YORK: People protest the arrest of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia University student who participated in pro-Palestinian campus protests, during a “Stop The Deportations!” rally on April 15, 2025 in New York City. — AFP

Palestinian student detained at US citizenship interview

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KUWAIT: A side view of the meeting of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Murat Nurtleu, at the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry.- KUNA

KCCI to enhance cargo transport with Kazakhstan