
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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3 days ago |
theguardian.com | Mark Townsend
A UN aid convoy carrying critical food supplies to a famine-threatened city in western Sudan has been targeted in a brutal attack that appeared to have caused “multiple casualties”. A number of trucks belonging to the UN’s food and children’s agencies were attacked as they headed towards El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, which has been besieged by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than a year.
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Mark Townsend
The new president of Somaliland says his state, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, is on the brink of securing international recognition – a development that would inflame tensions in the already tumultuous Horn of Africa.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Helen Livingstone |Tom Ambrose |Amy Sedghi |Mark Townsend |Jason Burke |Maya Yang | +1 more
Trump backs aid for Palestinians, saying 'a lot of good things are going to happen over the next month'Donald Trump on Friday backed aid for the Palestinians, saying people in Gaza are starving and adding that he expected “a lot of good things” in the next month. According to Reuters, when asked whether he supported Israeli plans to expand the war in Gaza, the US president told reporters: I think a lot of good things are going to happen over the next month, and we’re going to see.
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3 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Mark Townsend
Acute food insecurity continues to rise at an alarming rate, with almost 300 million people at risk of death through starvation, new analysis reveals. Escalating conflict and cuts to humanitarian aid along with climate and economic shocks forced an additional 13.7 million people into chronic food insecurity last year.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Mark Townsend
Scotland Yard has received a dossier of evidence documenting myriad alleged war crimes committed by a paramilitary group during the conflict in Sudan. Lawyers have submitted a 142-page file of evidence to the war crimes unit of the Metropolitan police containing details of numerous atrocities perpetrated by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Compiled by a London-based team of barristers specialising in international law, it documents killings, torture and mass rape.
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