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Foreign doctors in France stage hunger strike over job insecurity

Hundreds of foreign-trained doctors working in France on Wednesday launched a three-day hunger strike, demanding job security and the right to stay in the country. The protest comes after the government failed to deliver on a promised extension of work permits, leaving many at risk of losing their jobs.

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Rwanda slams UK 'betrayal' as sanctions pile up from Canada, Germany over DRC conflict

A week after the announcement of British sanctions against Rwanda for its involvement alongside the M23 in the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kigali is complaining about what it sees as the UK's "betrayal". Meanwhile, Canada and Germany have also announced sanctions for the same…

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USAID’s history shows decades of good work on behalf of America’s global interests, although not all its projects succeeded

The Trump administration’s sudden dismantling of nearly all foreign aid, including the work carried out by the U.S. Agency for International Development, has upended the government agency’s longtime strategic role in implementing American foreign policy.

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The Long Wave: Trinidad and Tobago carnival celebrates African roots

Soca veterans join forces with Afrobeats stars as the diaspora strengthens ties with the motherland. Plus, Angela Davis heads to London

The Guardian - UK

Israel cut off food and supplies to Gaza. Aid groups are scrambling. What's happening on the ground?

Israel’s cutoff of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza’s 2 million people has sent prices soaring and humanitarian groups into overdrive, trying to distribute dwindling stocks to the most vulnerable

The Independent UK

Israel risks breaching international law by blocking aid to Gaza, says minister

Catherine West said humanitarian aid ‘should never be contingent on a ceasefire or used as a political tool’.

Evening Standard

More than 200 children were raped in Sudan since the beginning of 2024, UN children's agency says

The U.N. children’s agency says children in conflict-ravaged Sudan as young as a year old have been raped since the beginning of 2024 and that sexual violence is being used as a tactic of war

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A simple illustrated guide to Ramadan, answers to 10 common questions

The ninth month of the Islamic calendar is special to Muslims around the world for its many unique blessings.

Al Jazeera

UN World Food Program Closes Southern Africa Office

The closure of WFP's southern Africa office due to U.S. aid cuts impacts hunger relief efforts.

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UN food program closes its southern Africa office in the wake of Trump administration aid cuts

The United Nations’ World Food Program is closing its southern Africa office in the wake of the Trump administration’s aid cuts

The Independent UK

Donald Trump is picking fights with leaders around the world. What exactly is his foreign policy approach?

Since returning to the US presidency, Donald Trump has outdone himself, gaining global media headlines and attention with outrageous statements and dramatic decisions.

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Pakistani and Afghan forces clash at vital border crossing

Afghanistan says one member of its security forces is killed and two injured in overnight clashes at Torkham crossing.

Al Jazeera

Sudan reels as US suspends aid amid ongoing war

Sudan has been hit hard by the United States' decision to suspend development aid to the poorest countries. The country has been plunged into a destructive war since April 2023. Despite this, the Trump administration intends to end the budget of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which…

Radio France Internationale

Israel accused again of war crimes for blocking humanitarian aid into Gaza

Israel has been accused of war crimes after it stopped the entry of all food and other supplies into Gaza on Sunday ...

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Arab nations, rights groups condemn Israel’s decision to block Gaza aid

Several countries say Israeli action violates ceasefire deal as well as international law by using starvation as weapon.

The Independent UK

Israel has cut off all supplies to Gaza. Here's what that means

Israel has cut off the entry of all food and other goods into Gaza in an echo of the siege it imposed in the earliest days of its war with Hamas

Radio France Internationale

Ugandan army deploys to town in northeast DR Congo amid fears of wider conflict

The Ugandan army confirmed Sunday it has sent troops to another town in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo to fight local armed groups, amid fears a raging conflict could spiral into a wider war.

Radio France Internationale

Egyptian authorities reject attempts to form parallel government in Sudan

Egypt rejected on Sunday attempts aimed at establishing a rival government in Sudan, warning that such moves jeopardised the "unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity" of the war-torn country.

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The Independent UK

USAID cuts are already hitting countries around the world. Here are 20 projects that have closed

Countries around the world already are feeling the impact of the Trump administration’s decision to eliminate more than 90% of foreign aid contracts and cut some $60 billion in funding

Evening Standard

Starmer presses Egyptian president for release of jailed British man

Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s mother Laila Soueif’s hunger strike has left her in a critical condition in hospital.

The Guardian - UK

‘I am willing to die’: hunger-striking mother of writer jailed in Egypt fights on in London hospital bed

After more than 150 days without food, Laila Soueif says she will continue until there is some positive news from Cairo

The Guardian - UK

Macron says French-Algerian author under ‘arbitrary detention’ in Algeria

French president voices concern for health of Boualem Sansal, who is on hunger strike over his imprisonment

The Independent UK

It's been a month since rebels seized an eastern Congo city. Goma residents say they are struggling

Rwanda-backed rebels captured a key eastern Congo city a month ago Friday

The Guardian - UK

Saudi border forces accused of killing ‘hundreds of Ethiopian migrants’

Witnesses making the crossing from Yemen report coming under machine-gun fire and seeing rotting bodies

The Independent UK

Trump's permanent USAID cuts slam humanitarian programs worldwide: 'We are being pushed off a cliff'

Health groups and non-governmental organizations have expressed surprise and outrage after the Trump administration’s decision to cut 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts

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