10/26: Sunday Morning

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Sudan civil war escalates as RSF forces reportedly push into beleaguered army stronghold of El-Fasher

[ad_1] Johannesburg — A powerful paramilitary force fighting the government in Sudan’s raging two-and-a-half-year civil war claimed over the weekend to have captured the city of El-Fasher, where hundreds of thousands of civilians have been trapped, cut off from the world for months. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the French news agency AFP that the…

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Half of uncontacted Indigenous tribes “could be wiped out” in 10 years, report says. Here’s what to know.

[ad_1] From the depths of Brazil’s Amazon to Indonesia’s rainforests, some of the world’s most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers — a crisis unfolding far from public view or effective state protection. A new report by Survival International, a London-based Indigenous rights organization, attempts one of the broadest tallies…

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