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But assistance to even those four million could soon stop if the chronic lack of funding continues, Clementine Nkweta-Salami told AFP in an interview on Sunday. The UN's humanitarian coordinator for Sudan said the situation is "catastrophic", eight months into a conflict between rival generals that has torn the country apart. Aid workers have […]

Leverkusen and Stuttgart are the two favourites to win the cup this year, with both Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund already out of the running. Xabi Alonso's Leverkusen are currently four points clear at the top of the Bundesliga, while surprise packages Stuttgart are in third. The two held each other to a high-quality 1-1 draw in the […]

Manchester City snapped their four-game winless streak with a hard-fought 2-1 victory at Luton to close back to within four points of the top. But the crisis across Manchester deepens as United slumped to a shocking 3-0 home defeat to Bournemouth. AFP Sport looks at three talking points from the Premier League weekend. Man Utd crisis is real […]

Since topping the Premier League after beating Crystal Palace on October 27, Tottenham had lost four of their next five games to squander the momentum from their blistering start to the season. Ange Postecoglou's attacking tactics were branded as naive during that losing run, but the Australia stuck to his guns and was rewarded with a goal-spree […]

Leverkusen playmaker Florian Wirtz scored a second-half equaliser as the visitors came from behind to steal a point from in-form Stuttgart and strengthen their grip on top spot. Alonso's side are now four points clear of Bayern Munich at the top of the table, after the champions suffered a shock 5-1 defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday. […]

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) leaders met for a summit in Nigeria's capital Abuja with the region in crisis after coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Niger since 2020 and two attempted coups elsewhere in recent weeks. ECOWAS commission President Omar Touray said a heads of state group from Benin, Togo and Sierra […]

West African leaders on Sunday kept sanctions imposed on Niger after a July military coup and said they would need to see progress towards a transition to civilian rule before easing the measures.

Ireland winger Jordan Larmour scored the game's only try for Leinster moments after both teams were reduced to 14 men as Jonathan Danty and Joe McCarthy were sin-binned following a 12th-minute tussle. Harry Byrne nailed the conversion as Leinster replied to Antoine Hastoy's early penalty for the hosts in driving rain on the Atlantic coast. […]

At least 30,000 people have taken refuge in its grounds between piles of rubble and waste after Israeli forces raided the medical facility last month, an AFP correspondent reported from the hospital. Its medical equipment was heavily damaged and is now virtually unusable. Food is scarce, too, but Gazans still come in search of what little safety […]

There have been repeated exchanges of fire across the border since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza in October, raising fears of a wider conflict. The Israeli army said several soldiers were hut when its missile defences shot down a pair of "suspicious aerial targets that crossed from Lebanon" in the Western Galilee region. "Two IDF […]