Four years of flooding leaves roughly one million South Sudanese in need of humanitarian support
The number of people affected by large-scale flooding in South Sudan has doubled to roughly a million since September, the UN’s emergency response agency has warned. Estimates by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) say some 909,000 people are suffering in the country of 11 million. As...
UN boss calls on Security Council to mobilise and deploy armed forces in Haiti to avert humanitarian crisis
As the security situation in Haiti continues deteriorating, United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres wants the Security Council (SC) to consider deploying armed forces to help the country address “immense” humanitarian concerns. He has written to the SC outlining options for enhanced security support to the Caribbean country. His...
UN report warns debilitating debt has pushed 54 world’s poorest nations further into abject poverty
The United Nations’ Development Programme (UNDP) joined on Tuesday the chorus of institutions and charities warning that a serious debt crisis is now taking hold in the poorest parts of the world. In a new report, the UNDP estimated that 54 countries, accounting for more than half of the world’s...
Crushing feeling of betrayal may force striker Mbappe out of PSG to Liverpool or Madrid
Kylian Mbappe’s relationship with PSG is at breaking point, according to reports in France, because he feels he’s been betrayed by the club after agreeing a new mega deal this summer. The 2018 World Cup winner sensationally revealed his desire to leave for Real Madrid, who bid £154 million for...
Revolution eats its children: The poor voted for Brexit to protest fuzzy authority, MPs wanted parliamentary sovereignty
Let me caricature a specifically Conservative Brexitism. Of course, there was the Brexit of the much angrier and poorer north and Midlands. This was a Brexit more about distant power, wage suppression, neglect and inequality. But the mild, mainstream Tory Brexiters talked a lot about parliamentary sovereignty, which the Whig...
British PM Liz Truss on the brink as Conservative-fuelled Brexit revolution devours its children
Can Liz Truss survive? The humiliating U-turn over the top rate tax cut has won her time in the party and in the markets. But within hours of the first U-turn, her premiership was unravelling further in almost every direction. In the crammed bars of the Birmingham Hyatt hotel, seasoned...
Man United not out of the woods yet as calls for lazy Rashford to improve, push for Garnacho game time rise
Manchester United icon Paul Parker believes Alejandro Garnacho should be thrust into Erik ten Hag’s starting XI. And he has also urged Marcus Rashford to improve his efforts off the ball to help out teammates. United have bounced back from this month’s 6-3 derby defeat at Man City with narrow...
Arsenal’s unappreciated trio with firm grip on the trigger is instilling ‘monster mentality’ in the Gunners
Arsenal’s young attacking stars are not the only players excelling at the Emirates this season. The Gunners have had a stunning start to the season, with the likes of Gabriel Jesus and Gabriel Martinelli grabbing the headlines as they sit atop the Premier League table. But there are also a...
Iran intensifies crackdown on Kurdish human rights protesters after morality police murder detained woman
Iran on Tuesday intensified its crackdown on Kurdish areas in the country’s west as protests sparked by the death of a 22-year-old woman detained by the morality police rage on, activists said. Riot police fired into at least one neighbourhood in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan province, as Amnesty...
How Brazil President Bolsonaro weaponised Covid to cut Black voter numbers to gain advantage over Lula
Last week’s elections in Brazil witnessed belated gains in representation for marginalised and vulnerable communities that have suffered a rise in hate crimes and violence under Jair Bolsonaro. But with the presidential runoff coming on October 30, the fight is far from over. Nearly four years of government led by...
