Mark Townsend
Senior Reporter at The Guardian
Senior reporter at the Guardian covering global development and human rights. DM's open. [email protected]
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Mark Townsend
Pressure is mounting on the United Arab Emirates over its presence at a crucial conference in London aimed at stopping the war in Sudan after a leaked confidential UN report raised fresh questions over the UAE’s role in the devastating conflict. The UAE has been accused of secretly supplying weapons to Sudanese paramilitaries via neighbouring Chad, a charge it has steadfastly denied.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Mark Townsend
A friend had gone missing. Nothing unusual in Sudan’s ruinous war, but Hitham Mohund knew it was vital to act quickly. However, in an abandoned home near the Nile River he stopped searching after making a grisly discovery: wedged inside a bathroom were three bodies. Hands tied, eyes staring upwards. “They were shot in the chest,” said the 28-year-old, as he walked towards Maigoma Street, a dusty thoroughfare in north Khartoum, Sudan’s capital.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Jason Burke |Mark Townsend
Sudanese officials say they have rejected a request from the US to discuss taking in Palestinians displaced from Gaza under Donald Trump’s plan to turn the territory into a “Riviera on the Mediterranean”. According to an Associated Press report, the US and Israel contacted officials in Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland about resettling uprooted Palestinians.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Mark Townsend
Almost 1,000 civilians have been killed and hundreds more injured in military drone attacks across Africa as the proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles continues unchecked on the continent, according to a report. At least 50 separate deadly strikes by armed forces in Africa have been confirmed during the three years up to November 2024, with analysts describing a “striking pattern of civilian harm” with little or no accountability.
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1 month ago |
genocidewatch.com | Mark Townsend
'Here you will die': Executions, Starvation and Beatings at Hands of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces By Mark TownsendHaunting accounts of torture in newly found detention centre lead to calls for an investigation into what experts say could be among the worst atrocities of Sudan’s civil warLying between the makeshift graves is a mattress, a large bloodstain visible in the midday sun. A name is scrawled in Arabic on its ragged fabric: Mohammed Adam. Who was Adam?
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Report from Sudan, only made possible because of the help and energy of Colonel Hassan, killed by an RSF attack on Khartoum’s presidential palace on Friday. Thanks Hassan for everything, you will not be forgotten. https://t.co/yhC7csMd4W
RT @JudiRever: A must read: Rwandan troops ‘dying in large numbers in DRC’, despite official denials of role. An investigation by @michelaw…
Questions to be answered. https://t.co/9rS9KpOHwg