‘I’m tired. I’m just really, really tired.’ One woman describes living through Sudan’s crisis
Two men are battling for control in Sudan, but stuck in the middle are the country’s people.
Hundreds have died, tens of thousands have fled. Residents have been stranded at home and in shelters without food or water, and petrol has become an increasingly important commodity.
Since the fighting began last Saturday, CNN has been regularly in touch with Iman Abu Garjah, a British-Sudanese doctor who became stuck while visiting family to celebrate Ramadan.
We got this update from her on Friday. Her words have been edited for clarity.
Iman’s story
“I’m tired. I’m just really, really tired. Exhausted is the right word for it; burnt out. There’s just so much adrenaline.
“We were happy about the 24-hour ceasefire [earlier in the week], which was extended, not because there actually was a ceasefire, but there was spacing out between the attacks.
“[On Thursday] we all just felt really tired, we were still fasting in the midst of all of this, and everybody’s sentiment was Ramadan just has to come to an end.
Murder, alcohol and prostitutes: Wagner convicts pardoned by Putin return to terrorise home towns
Violent criminals who served with the notorious Russian militia in Ukraine are terrorising the communities they return to
He strode up and down the central street of Tskhinvali on Monday, like he did most days, occasionally stopping to chat with passersby.
Locals knew the man, Soslan Valiyev, 38, as an idiosyncratic but popular fixture in Tskhinvali, the tiny capital of the Russian-backed breakaway region of South Ossetia in Georgia.
Tsugri, as Valiyev was affectionately nicknamed by everyone in town, had a developmental disability. “As long as I could remember Tskhinvali, Tsugri was always there, greeting cars as they entered the city with his big smile,” said Alik Puhati, a journalist and South Ossetian native.
Japan military on alert for launch of N. Korea spy satellite
Days after Pyongyang said it was ready to launch the country's first spy satellite, Tokyo has ordered its military to be ready to shoot down any rocket debris that lands nearby.
Japan on Saturday ordered the country's military to prepare countermeasures against any rocket debris that falls on its territory as North Korea prepares a satellite launch. The rocket carrying North Korea's first reconnaissance satellite could be launched within days.
Kyodo news agency cited government sources as saying the SDF would prepare to deploy ground-based Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor missiles and Aegis-equipped destroyer warships carrying sea-based Standard Missile-3 interceptor projectiles.
"We will make preparations to be able to respond to any circumstance that could cause damage to Japan," one of the sources said.
Suspected jihadists attack 'Russian’ military camp in Mali
Suspected jihadists attacked a military camp in central Mali on Saturday, two local elected officials and a diplomatic source told AFP, referring to the site as a "Russian camp".
Mali's junta in 2022 began working with what it calls Russian military "instructors". Opponents say these are mercenaries from the Wagner group.
"We have no toll for the moment -- the situation is still confused -- it is jihadists who targeted the airport and the Russian camp next to it", a local elected official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Two Malian military officials also confirmed the attack had taken place in the town of Sevare, in the Mopti region.
Around 5:30 am (0530 GMT), four loud explosions could be heard, followed by automatic weapons fire, several people on the ground told AFP. Smoke was also seen near the airport.
Health ministry panel OKs oral abortion pill for 1st time
A health ministry panel on Friday approved the manufacturing and marketing of an oral abortion pill in Japan for the first time, paving the way for its formal approval and sale as early as this spring.
As abortions in the early stages of pregnancies in Japan are currently limited to surgical procedures, the pill Mefeego, developed by the British pharmaceutical company Linepharma International Ltd, is expected to be a new option that could lighten both physical and mental stress on women.
The pharmaceutical subcommittee at the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare approved the drug at a meeting after gathering public opinion and carefully debating the matter, amid concerns about the emergency response for possible side effects and the price of the pill, ministry officials said.
Glaciers ‘already lost’: Extreme melt has contributed to 10cm rise in ocean levels
Emma Farge
Global sea levels are rising at more than double the pace they did in the first decade of measurements and hit a new record high last year, the World Meteorological Organisation said on Friday, warning that the trend would continue for millennia.
Extreme glacier melt and record ocean heat levels – which cause water to expand – contributed to an average rise in sea levels of 4.62 millimetres a year between 2013-2022, the United Nations agency said in a major report detailing the havoc of climate change. That is about double the pace of the first decade on record, 1993-2002, leading to a total increase of more than 10 centimetres since the early 1990s.
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