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The war in Sudan has created the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.

How did the fighting begin in 2023?

Who are the two main sides?

And what are the main factors driving the war now?

Watch Start Here Sudan explainer with Sandra Gathmann to understand what is happening.

Mahitab Mahgoub – Nonresident fellow, Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy Hi

ba Morgan – Sudan correspondent, Al Jazeera English Ahme

d Soliman – Senior research fellow, Africa Programme, Chatham House Kholoo

d Khair – Founder and director, Confluence Advisory Hager Al

i – Doctoral researcher, German Institute for Global and Area Studies Alan Boswe

Comments to Indian media seem to contradict Trump report that negotiators got the impression he wanted to ‘make a deal’. Russ

ia's Putin says Ukrainian lands will be taken 'by military means or otherwise' Russ

ian President Vladimir Putin has said recent talks with United States negotiators over ending the war with Ukraine were “very useful”, while doubling down on the maximalist demands and territorial designs that are standing in the way of a solution. In advan

ce of a trip to New Delhi on Thursday, Putin told India Today TV that he planned to seize control of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region by force, confirming Kremlin reports that no consensus had been reached in the previous day’s talks with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. “It all boil

s down to this: either we will liberate these territories by force, or Ukrainian troops will leave these territories and stop fighting there,” he said in comments from the interview that were carried by state news agency Tass on Thursday. Putin sent tens

of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022 after eight years of fighting between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian troops in the Donbas, comprising the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. His renewed dete

rmination to take the region appeared to pour cold water on US President Donald Trump’s earlier assertion that Witkoff and Kushner had thought the Russian leader wanted “to end the war”. “Their impression was

very strongly that he’d like to make a deal,” Trump said. Putin’s comments came amid r

eports that special envoy Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Kushner will meet top Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov in Florida on Thursday as a follow-up to the five hours of talks in Moscow on Tuesday. Embattled Ukrainian President Vo

lodymyr Zelenskyy, who has been bogged down by Russia’s advance and a domestic corruption scandal, maintains that he does not have the power to sign away Ukrainian territory and that Russia should, in any case, not be rewarded for its invasion. The Ukrainian constitution also fo

Gaza has exposed the limits of US power and opened space for new centres of global diplomacy.

Humanitarian leader and political analyst from South Africa.

In Gaza, the world has seen the cost of a diplomacy that claims to uphold a rules-based order but applies it selectively.

The United States intervened late, and only to defend an occupation the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled illegal.

Alongside other Western nations that built multilateral institutions, the US increasingly pursues nationalist agendas that undermine them.

The hypocrisy is stark: one set of rules for Ukraine, another for Gaza.

This erosion of credibility marks the structural collapse of unipolar authority, symbolised by the US’s absence from the Group of 20 (G20) in South Africa this past week. As

thousands gather in Qatar over the coming days for this year’s Doha Forum under the theme “Justice in Action: Beyond Promises to Progress”, the failure to prevent genocide demands a reckoning. The impo

sed ceasefire in Gaza has delivered neither political resolution nor safety for Palestinians. Meanwhil

e, the future of Gaza continues to be discussed without Palestinians in the room. This is

Mohammed and his daughter face the emotional fallout of his political activism in Gaza and imprisonment in Israel, that left her to grow up without him.

A fractured family tries to heal itself across borders and generations.

Palestinian Mohammed Dahman, from Gaza, served nearly 20 years in Israeli jails when he was younger.

This powerful observational film follows Mohammed and his daughter, Mai, as they confront the emotional scars left by his years of absence, both in jail and as a political activist.

Now living in Norway, Mohammed fears growing old far from Gaza and sets out to retrieve the prison letters he once sent home, hoping they might help repair his strained relationship with Mai.

His visit back to Gaza stirs memories of political struggle, friendship and sacrifice, while Mai in Norway grapples with the resentment of a childhood without him.

When he finally returns, father and daughter face the painful truths of the past as they read the letters together – moments of love, regret and longing preserved on paper. Th

eir story culminates in a quiet but hopeful attempt at reconciliation, captured in the small, tender moments of family life.

Flamengo add Brazil’s Serie A title to Copa Libertadores crown and have PSG in sight in Intercontinental Cup in Qatar. Fo

ur days after beating Palmeiras to win their fourth Copa Libertadores, Flamengo secured the Brazilian title with a 1-0 success against Ceara at Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Maracana stadium on Wednesday. It w

as a ninth Brazilian crown for the country’s most popular football club, and their third in the last seven seasons. Samuel

Lino, the club’s record signing, scored the only goal of the game against Ceara to maintain Flamengo’s now unassailable five-point lead at the top of Serie A over Palmeiras with just one game to go. The newly

crowned champions squeezed past Palmeiras with a 1-0 win in Saturday’s Copa Libertadores final, which was staged in the Peruvian capital of Lima. They have no

w become only the fifth Brazilian side in history to complete the Serie A-Copa Libertadores double, having also done so in 2019. “In a few ye

ars (the players) will realise what they have achieved,” said Flamengo’s coach Filipe Luis. “They are eternal!

” Pele’s Santos did the

double in 1962 and 1963, and Botafogo managed it last year. Meanwhile, Neymar scored

a hat-trick for Santos in their 3-0 victory over Juventude to boost the Sao Paulo-based club’s hopes of avoiding relegation. Santos are now two points

In the first annual GCC meeting since Israel’s strike on Qatar in September, which killed six people, Bahrain’s foreign minister Abdullatif Alzayani stated that member states stand “shoulder-to-shoulder” against any threat to the bloc.

The UN says the visit comes ‘at a crucial time for the region’, as it seeks to bolster ties with Syria. A Un

ited Nations Security Council (UNSC) delegation has arrived in Syria for its first-ever trip to the country, reported state media, just days before the war-ravaged nation marks the first anniversary of the ousting of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad. The

UNSC delegation arrived via the Jdeidet Yabous border crossing between Lebanon and Syria and “is scheduled to meet a number of Syrian officials” and members of civil society, state news agency SANA reported on Thursday. Shortly

afterwards, the agency said the delegation was visiting the capital Damascus’s heavily damaged suburb of Jobar. The diplom

ats will meet Syria’s new authorities, including President Ahmed al-Sharaa, before visiting neighbouring Lebanon on Friday and Saturday. Al Jazeera’s

Assed Baig, reporting from Damascus, said the UNSC delegation will also visit some of Damascus’s historical sites. “This gives them

[the UNSC delegation] the opportunity to look at Syria away from the political and military dynamics, it shows them the cultural heritage of Syria but also the history that has been damaged during the civil war,” as the country embarks on the initial phases of post-civil war reconstruction. The UNSC visit has b

een “very well” received in Syria, said Baig. “What it does is tell ev

erybody that Syria is trying to reestablish itself on the international stage, it is trying to build relations with the United Nations. It has the support of neig

hbouring countries as well as Arab regional countries. It has the support of the

Dispute over Israeli plan for one-way opening of Gaza's Rafah Crossing

Israel says the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt will open in the coming days, but only for Palestinians leaving Gaza.

The UN is urging a full reopening of Rafah, and Egypt says it will only cooperate if movement is allowed both in and out.

Africa’s minerals and young workforce are attracting global interest as China, the US and Europe compete for influence. Fo

r decades, Africa was defined by aid, debt and development debates. To

day, the continent’s critical minerals, rising consumer markets and young workforce are turning it into one of the world’s most strategic economic battlegrounds. China,

the United States and Europe are all vying for influence there – from infrastructure to clean energy and digital networks. But acro

ss the continent, the focus has shifted – leaders want partnerships that deliver real industry, real jobs and real value for African people. So as glob

al rivals step up their game, can Africa finally choose partners on its own terms?

Government once seen as progressive on migration says aid cuts to blame for excluding countries ‘not experiencing war’ The

Ugandan government has stopped granting asylum and refugee status to people from Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia, citing severe funding shortfalls for the significant policy shift. Hill

ary Onek, Uganda’s minister for refugees, announced that the government would no longer grant the status to new arrivals from countries “not experiencing war”. “I have in

structed our officers not to give refugee status to citizens from those countries … especially those coming from Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia, because there is no war there,” he said late last week. The decision, fr

om a country seen as one of the world’s most progressive in its approach to migration, has raised concerns that thousands of people will be left in legal and humanitarian limbo. Onek put the blame

on a lack of money. “The situation is

dire, and it is our people who shoulder those costs,” he said. “Uganda used to get $2

40m per year from [the UN refugee agency] UNHCR, but with an increased refugee population of almost 2 million people, we now get less than $100m,” Onek said, adding that this year, the country had received only $18m (£14m). The minister was speaking a

t the handover of 2,544 tonnes of rice donated by South Korea to the UN World Food Programme (WFP), which will support about 600,000 refugees across 13 settlements. The contribution, worth $2.

9m, was received at the UN agency’s warehouse in the northern Ugandan city of Gulu. Uganda hosts an asylum and re

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His impressive cover of the “megafires” in California spotlights the climate emergency. Josh

Edelson, independent photographer based in San Francisco, California, has been working with AFP since 2012. “ 10 years covering wildfires in California, I've never seen anything like what this year brought. The ne

w normal now seems to be that every fire season brings a new surprise”, he tells AFP. His cove

rage for AFP of the “megafires” in northern California makes him one of three photographers preselected for the “Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards.”. These prizes are

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will be announced in early October. In this picture take

n late on June 13, 2017, physiotherapist Masayuki Ozaki takes a bath with his silicone sex doll Mayu at a love hotel in Yachimata, Chiba prefecture. Around 2,000 of the

life-like dolls -- which cost around 6,000 USD and come with adjustable fingers, removable head and life-like genitals -- are sold each year in Japan, according to industry insiders. © AFP / Behrouz Mehr

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passes Kenyan police troops during a protest by supporters of the National Super Alliance (NASA) presidential candidate on August 11th, 2017 at the Mathare slum of Nairobi, a stronghold of Kenyan opposition leader. Kenyan politics is ch