“There is a ray of hope at last. I can’t express my feeling, my gratitude to the Bangladesh government. We went through hell in the last 15 days. We did not even think we could return home alive.”

The fighting in Sudan has caused more than 330,000 people to flee their homes within the country, with over 100,000 others escaping over the borders, the United Nations said yesterday.

The United Nations has warned of an influx of refugees fleeing to Sudan's neighboring countries

Australia today proposed to tighten e-cigarette laws, including introducing new controls on import and packaging to stamp out vaping especially among kids, in the biggest crackdown on the tobacco industry in more than a decade..The federal government will take steps to ban all disposable v

On donkeys or horses, by cart or by foot, hundreds of Sudanese, most of them women and children, each day cross a small, dry stream to find safety in neighbouring Chad

Air strikes and artillery rocked Khartoum on Saturday as Sudan entered a third week of fighting between rival military forces despite a ceasefire, prompting more civilians to flee and renewed warnings of wider instability if the war is not stopped

Warplanes on bombing raids drew heavy anti-aircraft fire over Khartoum today as fierce fighting between Sudan's army and paramilitaries entered a third week, violating a renewed truce

Stranded Bangladeshis in conflict-ridden Sudan have been requested to contact the hotline numbers of Bangladesh embassy in Sudan for evacuation

A devastating drought that has struck the Horn of Africa could not have occurred without global warming, according to a new report released yesterday from an international team of climate scientists.

It was raining bullets for most of two days near the shop in Khartoum where Monowar Hossain works. He was stuck inside the shop for three days.

A US-brokered ceasefire in Sudan appears to be partially holding but there is no sign the warring parties are ready to seriously negotiate, the UN special envoy on Sudan has said.

A US-brokered ceasefire between Sudan’s warring generals was largely holding in much of the capital yesterday, but witnesses in some areas reported ongoing clashes between the army and paramilitary forces.

Kenyan investigators unearthed another 16 bodies yesterday in a forest where a cult was believed to be practising mass starvation, bringing the number of victims so far to 90 including children.

The death toll in a case involving a Kenyan cult that practised starvation climbed to 73 Monday, police sources told AFP as investigators unearthed more corpses from mass graves in a forest near the coast

Foreign nations yesterday pushed on with frantic evacuations of their citizens from chaos-torn Sudan, where heavy fighting raged for a 10th day between forces loyal to two rival generals.

Australia launched its biggest defence overhaul in decades yesterday, vowing to turn a military that is “no longer fit for purpose” into a fighting force that could deter China or any would-be foe.

The armed forces of the United States and the United Kingdom have evacuated embassy staff from Sudan, while other nations rushed to get their citizens to safety as rival military factions battled in the capital Khartoum on Sunday

Kenyan police have now exhumed the bodies of 47 people thought to be followers of a Christian cult who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death..Police near the coastal town of Malindi started exhuming bodies on Friday from the Shakahola forest.."In total,

Twenty-one bodies have been exhumed in Kenya while investigating a cult whose followers are believed to have starved themselves to death, police sources said Saturday, warning the toll could rise

The foreign ministry of Saudi Arabia today said Royal Saudi Naval Force was able to evacuate 91 people, including Bangladeshis, from Sudan, which is witnessing armed conflict since April 15.