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More than €2 billion ($2.1 billion) in aid for Sudan has been raised at a conference after Germany, France and the EU appealed to the international community for urgent support given the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the country roiled by civil war. "We are not forgetting what is happening in Sudan and we remain mobilized," said French President Emmanuel Macron at the close of the conference in Paris on Monday evening. He spoke of one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world and the risk of famine. "The scale of our commitment will enable us to meet the most urgent needs in the a...
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Germany, France and the European Union appealed to the international community on Monday to provide urgent support for Sudan, in light of the catastrophic humanitarian situation that conflict has wrought on the northeast African state. "If we don't take massive countermeasures now as a global community, Sudan faces a terrible famine catastrophe. In the worst-case scenario, one million people could starve to death this year," German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warned at an aid conference in Paris. "We are making it clear today that we will not lose sight of the suffering of the people in...
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Around 20,000 people are newly displaced every day in Sudan, according to UN figures released on Monday to mark one year of civil war in the country. More than half of them are children and young people, the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. More than 8.6 million people are estimated to have fled their homes since last April. Around 2 million have escaped across the border to Chad, South Sudan and Egypt, the IOM said. "Sudan is on a tragically fast track to becoming one of the world's biggest humanitarian crises in decades," said IOM Director General Amy Pope. "The conf...
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One year after a brutal war erupted between rival factions of Sudan's security forces, France and Germany are leading an international donor conference in Paris on Monday to raise funds for urgently needed humanitarian aid. French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell headline the event that will also feature aid groups working on the ground and representatives of Sudan's neighbours. A bloody power struggle is raging between the forces of Abdel Fattah al-Burha, an army general who is Sudan's de facto ruler, and h...
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The leaders of France, Jordan and Egypt called for a Gaza ceasefire in a joint opinion piece published on Monday. "The war in Gaza and the catastrophic humanitarian suffering it is causing must end now," Egypt's Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, France's Emmanuel Macron and Jordan's King Abdullah said in the article published by the Washington Post newspaper. "We underline the urgent need to bring about a permanent cease-fire in Gaza," the leaders continued, arguing that "violence, terror and war cannot bring peace to the Middle East. The two-state solution will." A two-state solution foresees the peacef...
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said he is not ruling out the deployment of French ground troops in Ukraine. Macron said nothing is off the table in order to ensure that Russia does not win its war against Ukraine, after the conclusion of a Ukraine aid conference in Paris on Monday. The meeting, which was organized at short notice, featured top representatives from many of Kiev's key European backers, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and British Foreign Secretary David Cameron. There was no consensus on the use of ground troops at the meeting of over 20 heads of state and pri...
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said he is not ruling out the deployment of French ground troops in Ukraine. Macron said nothing is off the table in order to ensure that Russia does not win its war against Ukraine, after the conclusion of a Ukraine aid conference in Paris on Monday. The meeting, which was organized at short notice, featured top representatives from many of Kiev's key European backers, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and British Foreign Secretary David Cameron. There was no consensus on the use of ground troops at the meeting of over 20 heads of state and pri...
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French President Emmanuel Macron called for more weapons and resources to be rushed to Ukraine at an aid conference in Paris on Monday. The meeting, which was organized at short notice, featured top representatives from many of Kiev's key European backers, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and British Foreign Secretary David Cameron. "The general realization today is that the security of all of us is at stake," Macron told some 20 heads of state and government at the Élysée Palace. As Ukraine's war enters its third year, Macron said Moscow's behaviour was becoming more aggressive on the ...
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British telecommunications giant Vodafone Group Plc turned down a revised merger proposal from French telecommunications company Iliad for the Italian subsidiaries Iliad Italia and Vodafone Italia, Iliad SA announced on Wednesday. Iliad SA had made a merger proposal to Vodafone on December 18. The terms of the revised merger proposal included a 50/50 merger through the creation of NewCo, and Vodafone to get cash proceeds of €6.6 billion ($7.14 billion) and €2 billion in a shareholder loan. Illiad in turn would get €4 billion in cash proceeds and €2 billion in a shareholder loan. The company re...
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