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Selcuk Bayraktar, chief technology officer of Turkey’s drone powerhouse Baykar, said on Thursday that Turkish companies now control 65 percent of the worldwide market for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Monday said a record 123 million people have been displaced from their homes around the world – a number that has more than doubled over the past decade.

The Biden-Harris administration is scrambling to look useful in Sudan, where conditions deteriorated so much in the past week that Doctors Without Borders had to abandon a disease-riddled and famine-ravaged refugee camp because it could no longer operate safely.

The Center for Information Resilience (CIR), a non-profit human rights group, and the UK Guardian on Wednesday accused fighters from Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of gleefully posting images of themselves committing war crimes, including the burning of civilian homes and the torture of prisoners.

The death toll in Sudan’s conflict regions continues to rise as junta forces block civilians from receiving food and medical equipment.

French police shot and killed a Sudanese national who had attempted to attack passengers on a Paris tram with a butcher knife.

Republicans should refuse to reauthorize the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which offers preferential trade to several African countries, due to South Africa’s behavior in siding with murderous regimes and terrorists against the West.

Joe Biden has a track record of leaving Americans stranded in the middle of crisis situations and disasters with little help on the way.

An illegal migrant from Sudan has been granted the right to reside in the UK, despite concerns raised by MI5 over his support of ISIS.

A mysterious account on TikTok caused a good deal of confusion in the already chaotic nation of Sudan by using artificial intelligence (A.I.) to create convincing fake video clips of former dictator Omar al-Bashir, who was deposed in 2019.

The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday imposed sanctions for human rights violations against Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalo, a senior commander in Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a brutal paramilitary force led by Dagalo’s brother Mohammed Hamdan Daglo.

Russian officials on Monday appointed Gen. Andrey Averyanov, head of covert offensive operations for Russian military intelligence, to supervise the mercenary Wagner Group’s valuable operations in Africa following the reported death of its founders, Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin, in a plane crash last week.

The United Nations said on Tuesday that the situation in Sudan is “spiraling out of control” as food and medicine run out.

President Joe Biden’s DHS has announced the extension of temporary amnesty status for nearly 4,000 Sudanese nationals.

Four men are being held by French authorities on suspicion of involvement in the fatal smuggler boat crossing to England that killed six.

The U.N. International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimated on Wednesday that the number of people displaced by the vicious factional war in Sudan has exceeded 3 million, with some 2.4 of them displaced internally and 730,000 crossing into other countries to seek refuge.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that thousands of mercenaries from the Wagner Group will remain deployed in Africa, even though Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin led a mutiny against the Russian military over the weekend and then sought refuge in Belarus with some of his forces.

Voice of America News (VOA) reported on Tuesday that while the international community is nervously monitoring the brutal war between factions of the Sudanese junta and scrambling to deal with the ensuing humanitarian disaster, Communist China is moving full speed ahead with plans to “advance its own interests” in Sudan’s oil and mineral resources.

Internally-displaced persons (IDPs) in Ethiopia’s Tigray region staged massive demonstrations on Tuesday to protest delays in returning to their homes, the continued presence of hostile tribal militia forces on their lands, and the suspension of humanitarian aid.

Sudan’s Radio Dabanga reported on Monday that churches, mosques, and hospitals in the capital city of Khartoum were attacked over the weekend as the war between two factions of the ruling military junta continued.

The U.N. International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned on Tuesday that over 700,000 people in Sudan have been driven from their homes by fighting between two junta factions.

The United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, said on Friday that over a million polio vaccine doses intended for children have been destroyed during the civil war in Sudan.

The BBC reported “chaos” at Port Sudan, even hours after midnight on Sunday, as thousands of foreigners and Sudanese frantically tried to get out of the country before vicious warfare between rival junta factions resumed in earnest.

The UK vowed to maintain support for Britons trapped in Sudan but said conditions had grown too dangerous to continue evacuation flights.

Britain’s rescue operation in Sudan is to end at midday today, the country’s deputy prime minister has said.

The UK government has told Britons in Sudan that they are on their own when it comes to getting to the country’s evacuation point.

Susan Rice announced on Monday she was leaving the White House, amid another unfolding crisis overseas where Americans were left stranded in a war zone.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Tuesday warned that fighting in Sudan has created a “high risk of biological hazard” because one of the warring factions has seized control of a laboratory that houses measles, polio, cholera, and other pathogens.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday claimed that only “some dozen” Americans out of an estimated 16,000 who may still be in Sudan have expressed interest in leaving.

President Joe Biden’s national security advisor Jake Sullivan stated Monday that U.S. embassy evacuations happen “from time to time” in the wake of the second evacuation in Sudan.

President Joe Biden issued a statement this weekend thanking Saudi Arabia for “critical” aid in evacuating the American embassy in Khartoum, Sudan – a rare expression of praise for a country Biden promised as a presidential candidate to turn into a “pariah” nation.

Rush to evacuate embassy staff amid struggle for power in Sudan intensifies but some feel abandoned as western civilians get left behind.

President Joe Biden on Saturday ordered the evacuation of U.S. embassy staff in Khartoum, Sudan, amid worsening fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, a rival paramilitary force.

The Sudanese army said it was coordinating efforts to evacuate diplomats from the United States, UK, China and France out of the country.

A U.S. Embassy diplomatic convoy came under fire in Sudan on Monday with local paramilitary groups blamed for the assault. No injuries have been reported.

The 52nd session of the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) convened this week — with 70 percent of the membership consisting of autocracies, dictatorships, and other non-democratic nations.