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  • Assault on Sudan’s Zamzam refugee camp may have killed more than 1,500 civilians
    Donnerstag, 7. August 2025 06:00 Uhr

    Guardian investigation finds number killed in April attack by Rapid Support Forces far greater than current estimates

    More than 1,500 civilians may have been massacred during an attack on Sudan’s largest displacement camp in April, in what would be the second-biggest war crime of the country’s catastrophic conflict.

    A Guardian investigation into the 72-hour attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on North Darfur’s Zamzam camp, the country’s largest for people displaced by the war, found repeated testimony of mass executions and large-scale abductions. Hundreds of civilians remain unaccounted for.

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  • US destruction of contraceptives denies 1.4m African women and girls lifesaving care, NGO says
    Mittwoch, 6. August 2025 18:24 Uhr

    Incineration of $9.7m of contraceptives to lead to 174,000 unintended pregnancies and 56,000 unsafe abortions, IPPF says

    A decision by the US government to incinerate more than $9.7m (£7.3m) of contraceptives is projected to result in 174,000 unintended pregnancies and 56,000 unsafe abortions in five African countries.

    More than three-quarters of the contraceptives (77%) were destined for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Mali, according to the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF), an NGO global healthcare provider and advocate of sexual and reproductive rights.

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  • US hunter reportedly killed by buffalo during expedition in South Africa
    Mittwoch, 6. August 2025 16:04 Uhr

    Asher Watkins, 52, of Texas died while tracking 1.3-ton Cape buffalo on a hunting trip in the country’s Limpopo province

    An American game hunter was killed by a buffalo he was stalking during a hunting expedition in South Africa over the weekend, according to multiple reports.

    Asher Watkins, 52, of Texas, died on 3 August while tracking a 1.3-ton Cape buffalo in South Africa’s Limpopo province, according to a statement from Coenraad Vermaak Safaris (CV Safaris), the company that organized the hunting trip.

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  • Prince Harry among those criticised in report on dispute at Sentebale charity
    Mittwoch, 6. August 2025 01:00 Uhr

    Watchdog says all parties, including trustees, patrons and chair Sophie Chandauka, should not have had row in public

    The Charity Commission has criticised Prince Harry for allowing a row with the chair of his African charity to “play out publicly”, as the watchdog cleared him of racism.

    The prince was engaged in a public war of words earlier this year with the chair of the Sentebale charity, Dr Sophie Chandauka, after his resignation as a patron.

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  • Rwanda agrees to take up to 250 migrants from the US
    Dienstag, 5. August 2025 18:18 Uhr

    Deal follows deportations to South Sudan and Eswatini despite concerns about international law breaches

    The Rwandan government has said it would accept up to 250 migrants from the US under a deal agreed with Washington but gave no details on who could be included.

    The Trump administration’s deportation drive has included negotiating arrangements to send people to third countries, among them South Sudan and Eswatini.

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  • Trump administration doubles reward for arrest of Venezuela’s president to $50m
    Freitag, 8. August 2025 02:51 Uhr

    Nicolás Maduro was indicted in 2020 on federal charges of narcoterrorism and conspiracy to import cocaine

    The Trump administration is doubling to $50m a reward for the arrest of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, accusing him of being one of the world’s largest narcotraffickers and working with cartels to flood the US with fentanyl-laced cocaine.

    “Under President Trump’s leadership, Maduro will not escape justice and he will be held accountable for his despicable crimes,” Pam Bondi, the attorney general, said on Thursday in a video statement announcing the reward.

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