Sudan live news: Reports of a 24-hour ceasefire agreement
- The Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have agreed to a 24-hour ceasefire starting at 6pm local time (16:00 GMT).
- The United Nations says more than 180 people have been killed since the fighting began on Saturday.
- Many hospitals in Khartoum remain out of service, and medical personnel have been unable to reach healthcare facilities.
- The Wagner Group say they have not been active in Sudan for the past two years.
Heavy shelling less than an hour before ceasefire
Reporting from Khartoum, Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan says fighting is still ongoing less than an hour before the agreed ceasefire.
“We have seen on Sunday and Monday two ceasefire attempts fail. We have seen people try to step out of the areas where they are trapped only to get shot at or hit by shrapnel or by heavy shelling as the two sides exchanged fire,” Morgan said.
UN ready for ‘heartbreaking’ decision to pull out of Afghanistan
Officials say it will leave in May if Taliban cannot be persuaded to let local women work for organisation
The UN is ready to take the “heartbreaking” decision to pull out of Afghanistan in May if it cannot persuade the Taliban to let local women work for the organisation, officials have said.
The warning comes after UN officials spent months negotiating with the group’s leaders in the hope of persuading them to make exceptions to a hardline edict this month barring local women from working for it, according to the head of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), Achim Steiner.
The threatened move comes as two-thirds of the population, or 28 million people, are estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance in 2023, and the US government and other G7 members have been threatening to cut aid.
Tunisia: Police raid opposition party office, arrest leader
Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of Ennahda party and a prominent critic of Tunisian president Kais Saied, has been arrested, becoming the latest in a series of opposition figures detained.
Tunisian police raided the main headquarters of the Islamist Ennahda party early Tuesday, party officials said.
The searches came after authorities arrested the leader of the party, Rached Ghannouchi, on Monday.
The 81-year-old is among the most prominent critics of Tunisian President Kais Saied.
While Ghannouchi has been detained for questioning in the past and released, his supporters described Monday's action as a more serious step.
How migrants saved a rural French football team on verge of folding
US Argy, a football club in a small town in rural central France, was on the verge of folding after struggling to recruit players. But now the club, whose history stretches back more than a century, has been revitalised by a group of migrants, many from a nearby centre for asylum seekers, who had wanted to start their own team but lacked the funds to do so.
Israeli police say two men shot near Jewish tomb in Jerusalem in suspected ‘terror attack’
Two men have been wounded in what Israeli police say was a suspected “terror attack” that took place near the Shimon Hatzadik tomb in East Jerusalem early Tuesday local time.
A police statement said the force received a report of a shooting at a vehicle in the area of Shimon Hatzadik, which is located in East Jerusalem where tensions between Palestinians and Jewish settlers have been simmering in recent years.
The Shimon Hatzadik tomb is a revered holy site in Judaism located in the largely Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem.
Two people were “moderately injured,” according to medical officials and were transferred for further medical treatment, the police statement added.
Attack in Wakayama raises alarm about VIP security weeks before G7 summit
By Eimi Yamamitsu, Mayu Sakoda and Tom Bateman
An explosive device thrown at Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at an election rally on Saturday has raised alarming questions about the state of VIP security weeks before Japan hosts G7 leaders.
Kishida was about to speak at a by-election campaign event at a fishing harbor in Wakayama City, western Japan, when a smoking metal cylinder landed within a meter of him.
Kishida was bundled away from the partly enclosed area as police and bystanders subdued a suspect. Seconds later the small device exploded. Media said one or two people were slightly hurt.
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