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RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show
Up to 150,000 residents of El Fasher are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary Rapid Support Forces
The Sudanese city of El Fasher resembles a “massive crime scene”, with large piles of bodies heaped throughout its streets as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) work to destroy evidence of the scale of their massacre.
Six weeks after the RSF
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60,000 African penguins starved to death after sardine numbers collapsed – study
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds
More than 60,000 penguins in colonies off the coast of South Africa have starved to death as a result of disappearing sardines, a new paper has found.
More than 95% of the African penguins in two of the most important breeding colonies, on Dassen Island
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US considers wider sanctions on Sudanese army and RSF as ceasefire efforts falter
Trump envoy fails to secure deal as Norway prepares to host talks on how to restore civilian government in Sudan
The US is considering a much broader range of sanctions on the belligerents in the war in Sudan, in a tacit acknowledgment of the inability of the US envoy Massad Boulos to persuade the parties to accept a ceasefire.
Last week Donald Trump announced that work had begun
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US and EU critical minerals project could displace thousands in DRC – report
Global Witness says plan to upgrade railway line to Angola puts up to 1,200 buildings at risk of demolition
Up to 6,500 people are at risk of being displaced in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by a multi-billion-dollar infrastructure project funded by the EU and the US, amid a global race to secure supplies of copper, cobalt and other “critical minerals”,
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Uganda stops granting refugee status for Eritreans, Somalis and Ethiopians
Government once seen as progressive on migration says aid cuts to blame for excluding countries ‘not experiencing war’
The Ugandan government has stopped granting asylum and refugee status to people from Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia, citing severe funding shortfalls for the significant policy shift.
Hillary Onek, Uganda’s minister for refugees, announced that the government would
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US airstrike survivors clung to boat wreckage for an hour before second deadly attack, video shows
Footage seen by US senators shows two unarmed, shirtless men struggling to stay afloat before they were killed, sources say
Two men who survived a US airstrike on a suspected drug smuggling boat in the
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US leader of global neo-Nazi terrorist group signals retribution for arrests
Rinaldo Nazzaro says detention of suspected Base members in Spain justifies ‘resistance … by any means necessary’
After Spanish police and Europol’s counter-terrorism section arrested three suspected members of the Base – a globally proscribed neo-Nazi
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“This is war”: Is Trump about to invade Venezuela? – podcast
Donald Trump has in recent months turned his attention to ousting Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro. But the US president and his secretary of war, Pete Hegseth, are under scrutiny over military strikes on suspected drug boats from Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea.
This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian’s Tom Phillips about why people are accusing Trump of war
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Pentagon announces it has killed four men in another boat strike in Pacific
Strike comes amid congressional turmoil over legality of US attacks on suspected drug smugglers
The Pentagon announced on Thursday that the US military had conducted another deadly strike on a boat suspected of carrying illegal narcotics, killing four men in the eastern Pacific, as questions mount over the legality of the attacks.
Video of the new strike was
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Experts urge release of boat strike video as US admiral denies ‘kill them all’ order
Democrat Jim Himes calls footage ‘one of the most troubling scenes’ he’s observed in public service
Top Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Congress on Thursday said
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