‘Militiamen enter homes demanding “where are the girls?” One pregnant 12-yr-old tried to take her own life.’ Leading this week’s BBC Radio 4 From Our Own Correspondent, my dispatch on the horrors of #Sudan’s war & the incredible people supporting their own. bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0j…

The Pandemic Agreement negotiations are really revealing the stark difference between academics with insufficient real world experience in the subject matter they purport to opine on (whether law, science or data engineering) and actual practitioners and experts in those fields.

Around 74,000 children under age ten are estimated to have been vaccinated on the second day of the #polio vaccination campaign in #Gaza, bringing the total number so far to over 161,000. Day three of the campaign is ongoing and the majority of the remaining children in central

Disengaging from the Taliban would hardly help the people of #Afghanistan but why some countries are rushing to embrace the Taliban is forntheir own shappy reasons of self-interest and self-profit. thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2024/… (The New Humanitarian)

China reaps most of the benefits of its relationship with Africa: what’s behind the imbalance? theconversation.com/china-reaps-mo… via The Conversation Africa

#Mongolia asks for understanding why, as Int'l Criminal Court member, it wont arrest Putin during his visit. What a rubbish, self-serving argument. Was this really the courageous nation that once conquered the world? The soul of Chinggis Khan must be cowering under the “deep blue sky”

Did people like Nicholas Winton really exist on Planet Earth and did the UK once give asylum to people fleeing genocide? Both seem like fantasies from a distant age: Prague names street after British Holocaust hero Nicholas Winton bbc.com/news/articles/…

Tonight on the PBS PBS News: Meet the fighters and the funders on the front lines of #Sudan’s bloody war. Tune in at 6.30pm ET/11.30pm BST. #KeepEyesOnSudan

Impressive

Opinion | Gaza is hell for aid workers – and it is doubly difficult if you are a woman - The Guardian apple.news/AMyeAJ5EsTRqYq…

Bravo to every #Sudan|ese person selflessly helping others despite these difficult times, like Muddather, the doctor swimming through floods to respond to #emergency cases. Thanks to TRT Afrika for the story

Simply the coolest machine I have seen for a long time.

#UN Fact Finding Mission #Sudan calls for deployment of impartial force. “Given the failure of the warring parties to spare civilians, it is imperative that an independent and impartial force with a mandate to safeguard civilians be deployed without delay" ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

Since the early 1990s, China has sent tens of thousands of adoptees overseas – with about half arriving in the United States – as its draconian one-child policy forced many families to abandon children, especially girls and babies with disabilities. cnn.com/2024/09/06/chi…

Could Bangladesh’s former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, be extradited to the country to stand trial? theconversation.com/could-banglade… via The Conversation

Absolutely. It is not poverty that is principally responsible for driving Eritreans to flee to become refugees. It is the most brutal regime in Africa

#Sudan's situation goes from worse to somewhere where few words to describe the horror and desperation. .. youtu.be/ptckDwwmmz0?si… via BBC News (World)

Good report from United Nations Fact-Finding Mission #Sudan not just on extensive human rights violations & international crimes but suggesting (difficult) approaches for civilian protection. Unfortunately doubtful if warring groups and external meddlers will allow shar.es/agcRzM

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The Pretoria agreement on #Tigray #Ethiopia should never have been signed on the terms presented there. When a bad. bad agreement is signed in haste, repentance is always at leisure.