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Daily Wrap 15 April 2025
Some 400 people are now living in the Omar Haj Musa ​site for displaced people in Kassala, eastern Sudan.
External flow of weapons into Sudan must end, insists UN's Guterres

Two years to the day since Sudan's brutal war erupted between rival generals who rejected the peaceful transition to civilian rule after the overthrow of Omar Al-Bashir, UN chief António Guterres insisted that the world "must not forget" the suffering of the country's people. 

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Peace and Security
Fort of Goree Island, Senegal, was the site of one of the earliest European settlements in Western Africa.
UN forum tackles slavery reparations for Africa, people of African descent

The calls for reparatory justice can no longer be ignored, speakers at the fourth session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on African Descent in New York said on Tuesday. 

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Human Rights
People search through the rubble of a bombed building in southern Lebanon. (file photo)
Israeli strikes in Lebanon continue to kill civilians, UN rights office warns

Israeli military operations in Lebanon have continued to claim civilian lives and destroy vital infrastructure, the UN human rights office warned on Thursday, raising alarm over mounting violations since a ceasefire agreement took effect last November.

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Human Rights
People continue to flee from fighting in the eastern DR Congo. (file)
Flooding displaces thousands amid ongoing unrest in eastern DR Congo

Recent severe flooding caused by torrential rains has displaced nearly 10,000 people in Tanganyika province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday. 

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Migrants and Refugees
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