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UN Chief Warns Sudan Violence Risks ‘Catastrophic Conflagration’

UN Secretary-General Antَnio Guterres listens as Russian Foreign Minister and Security Council Acting President for the month of April Sergei Lavrov speaks during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters on April 24, 2023 in New York City. (Getty Images via AFP)
UN Secretary-General Antَnio Guterres listens as Russian Foreign Minister and Security Council Acting President for the month of April Sergei Lavrov speaks during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters on April 24, 2023 in New York City. (Getty Images via AFP)
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UN Chief Warns Sudan Violence Risks ‘Catastrophic Conflagration’

UN Secretary-General Antَnio Guterres listens as Russian Foreign Minister and Security Council Acting President for the month of April Sergei Lavrov speaks during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters on April 24, 2023 in New York City. (Getty Images via AFP)
UN Secretary-General Antَnio Guterres listens as Russian Foreign Minister and Security Council Acting President for the month of April Sergei Lavrov speaks during a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters on April 24, 2023 in New York City. (Getty Images via AFP)

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Monday that the violence in Sudan "risks a catastrophic conflagration within Sudan that could engulf the whole region and beyond" and called on Security Council members to exert maximum leverage.

"We must all do everything within our power to pull Sudan back from the edge of the abyss," Guterres told the 15-member council, adding that the United Nations was not leaving Sudan.

"We stand with them at this terrible time," he said. "I have authorized the temporary relocation both inside and outside Sudan of some United Nations personnel, families."

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Berlin Calls on Israel to Boost Aid Access to ‘Desperate’ North Gaza

Palestinian children walk among garbage at a landfill as they collect plastic, amid a shortage of cooking gas and fuel, at the Khan Younis refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, 04 November 2024. (EPA)
Palestinian children walk among garbage at a landfill as they collect plastic, amid a shortage of cooking gas and fuel, at the Khan Younis refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, 04 November 2024. (EPA)
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Berlin Calls on Israel to Boost Aid Access to ‘Desperate’ North Gaza

Palestinian children walk among garbage at a landfill as they collect plastic, amid a shortage of cooking gas and fuel, at the Khan Younis refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, 04 November 2024. (EPA)
Palestinian children walk among garbage at a landfill as they collect plastic, amid a shortage of cooking gas and fuel, at the Khan Younis refugee camp, in the southern Gaza Strip, 04 November 2024. (EPA)

Germany calls on Israel to let more humanitarian aid into north Gaza, where a lack of supplies has led to a "desperate" and "unbearable" situation, a spokesperson for the German foreign ministry said on Monday.

"We call on the Israeli government urgently to meet its responsibilities under international law," the spokesperson told a regular news conference in Berlin.

"Israel has the right to self-defense against Hamas within the framework of humanitarian international law," he added.

The spokesperson was responding to a question about an ultimatum set by Washington for Israel to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza this month or face potential restrictions on US military aid.