Gaza war may fuel much wider Middle East crisis, warns UN rights chief

adminMarch 4, 2024September 18, 202404 mins

“I am deeply concerned that in this powder keg, any spark could lead to a much broader conflagration,” Volker Türk told the Human Rights Council, the UN’s top rights forum. In a scheduled update on global crises to the Council’s 47 Member States, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights insisted that the international community should…

Sudan’s brutal conflict could spill over into wider region, warns Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan

adminSeptember 21, 2023September 16, 202405 mins

In his speech to the annual general debate of the UN General Assembly, Mr. Al-Burhan, who is President of the Transitional Sovereign Council, said that the Sudanese people have been facing a devastating war since April 15 launched against them by the Rapid Support Forces. Describing those paramilitary forces as rebels in alliance with…