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RED CROSS workers in South Sudan said yesterday that patients were dying as a result of the country’s civil war.
On the fourth anniversary of the newly independent state, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said that fighting between the two factions vying for control of the country had driven out much-needed medical teams.
It said that on July 5 a hospital in Upper Nile state supported by an ICRC surgical team was caught in the crossfire during heavy fighting in Kodok.
The spectre of ethnic cleansing looms over hundreds of thousands trapped without food, water, or medicines in the North Darfur state’s besieged capital, El Fasher, writes PAVAN KULKARNI
While much attention is focused on Israel’s aggression, we cannot ignore the conflicts in Africa, stoked by Western imperialism and greed for natural resources, if we’re to understand the full picture of geopolitics today, argues ROGER McKENZIE
