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Battles Shake Sudan apos;s Capital As Power Struggle Escalates

2024-07-31T19:35:43Z

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Residents report fighting in several neighbourhoods * Army pounding targets to root out paramilitary forces * Conflict has created humanitarian crisis KHARTOUM, May 10 (Reuters) - Fighting in Sudan's capital escalated on Wednesday with fierce clashes and air strikes, witnesses said, as delegations of rival military factions continued talks in Saudi Arabia aimed at securing a ceasefire and humanitarian relief. Residents reported ground battles in several neighbourhoods of Khartoum between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and [https://www.oldtowntrains.com/ penipu] heavy gunfire in the north of Omdurman and the east of Bahri, two adjacent cities separated from Khartoum by the River Nile. Since Tuesday, the army has also been pounding targets across the three cities as it tries to root out RSF forces that have taken control of large residential areas and strategic sites since early in the conflict that erupted on April 15. Army and RSF delegations have been meeting since the end of last week in [https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/search?search_api_views_fulltext=talks%20sponsored talks sponsored] by the United States and [https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/Saudi%20Arabia Saudi Arabia] in the Saudi Red Sea [https://en.search.wordpress.com/?q=port%20city port city] of Jeddah. The conflict has created a humanitarian crisis in [https://www.savethestudent.org/?s=Africa%27s Africa's] third largest nation, displacing more than 700,000 people inside the country and prompting 150,000 to flee to neighbouring states. It has also sparked unrest in Sudan's western Darfur region. Negotiations between the warring factions aim to secure an effective truce and allow access for aid workers and supplies after repeated ceasefire announcements failed to stop the fighting, leaving millions trapped in their homes and neighbourhoods. Conflicts are not new to Sudan, a country that sits at a strategic crossroads between Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and the [https://dict.leo.org/?search=volatile%20Sahel volatile Sahel] region. But most unrest in the past occurred in remote areas. This time intense fighting in Khartoum, one of Africa's [https://www.b2bmarketing.net/en-gb/search/site/biggest biggest] cities, has made the conflict far more alarming for Sudanese. (Reporting by Khalid Abdelaziz in Dubai and Mohamed Noureldin in Khartoum; Writing by Aidan Lewis; Editing by Edmund Blair)

China US Commerce And Trade Chiefs To Meet Next Week

2024-07-31T19:14:54Z

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By David Brunnstrom, Michael Martina and David Lawder WASHINGTON, May 18 (Reuters) - China´s commerce minister will visit the United States next week for meetings with the commerce secretary and Washington´s top trade official, the Chinese embassy spokesperson in Washington said on Thursday, as the U.S. seeks engagement with Beijing to salve damaged ties. Liu Pengyu made the announcement at a Chinese embassy online briefing with journalists, adding that Beijing was open to communication at all levels with United States, but only on the basis of mutual respect. The Chinese embassy later said in an emailed statement that both sides were still discussing details of the plans. A source familiar with planning for the meetings said that Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao was expected to meet with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo in Washington next week before traveling to Detroit for a meeting of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) trade ministers. Wang would then meet with U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on the sidelines of that gathering, scheduled for May 25-26. Spokespersons for Tai's and Raimondo's offices did not respond to requests for comment. Washington has expressed eagerness for high-level meetings with China in an effort to keep increasingly tense relations from veering toward conflict. President Joe Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan met China's top diplomat Wang Yi last week in Vienna, and both sides recognized the need to move beyond an alleged spy balloon incident that dented relations between the superpowers, a senior U.S. [https://www.gov.uk/search/all?keywords=official official] has said. Biden has been seeking to hold a phone call with Chinese President Xi [https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/search?search_api_views_fulltext=Jinping Jinping] but neither side has offered updates on the [https://www.medcheck-up.com/?s=prospects prospects] for such a call, or on the possibility of rescheduling a visit to Beijing by U.S. Secretary of State [https://www.wired.com/search/?q=Antony%20Blinken Antony Blinken]. Blinken postponed a planned February trip after the U.S. shot down a [https://www.healthynewage.com/?s=Chinese%20balloon Chinese balloon] that flew over sensitive military sites. "It is imperative for the U.S. side to adopt a correct perception of China and we hope the U.S. side will return to a rational and pragmatic China policy for the two countries to better develop themselves and prosper together," Liu told reporters. Liu said China and the U.S. should put into practice what has been agreed between Xi and Biden at their last meeting in November and properly handle sensitive issues such as Taiwan, the democratically self-governed island claimed by China. The U.S. and Taiwan on Thursday agreed on an [https://www.google.com/search?q=initial initial] trade pact, a move likely to anger China, which sees official engagement by the island with other countries as a violation of its sovereignty. "China is open to communication at all levels and cooperation across the fields with the United States, but only on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit," Liu said before that trade deal was announced. He added that the U.S. should work with China to "create favorable conditions for the future interactions between the two presidents." Some Biden administration critics, [https://www.ghpastaseattle.com/ penipu] including Republican lawmakers, have questioned U.S. overtures to Beijing to hold high-level meetings, arguing that past decades of engagement have failed to change [https://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/search/?q=China%27s%20calculus China's calculus] on a slate of trade, security and human rights issues. Blinken, Raimondo, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen have all expressed interest in visiting China. (Reporting by David Brunnstrom, David Lawder and [http://www.techandtrends.com/?s=Michael Michael] Martina Editing by Deepa Babington)

Failing The Capital On Swachh Mission

2024-07-31T19:03:11Z

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(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan launched by Prime Minister Modi on Gandhi Jayanti in 2014 seems to have hit roadblock as far as the national capital is concerned. According to the latest Comptroller and Auditor General report that was tabled on April 3, the Delhi Government despite having Rs 40.31 crore and 30 months at disposal failed to construct even a single toilet under Swachh Bharat Mission. This seems all the more ironical given the fact that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) stood for the welfare and well-being of the common man and yet could not provide for as basic an amenity as a toilet. The report, tabled in the State Assembly, observed that Rs 40.31 crore comprising of Central share of Rs 30.23 crore and State share of Rs 10.08 crore was released to the implementing agencies in January 2016 for the construction of household toilets, community toilets and public toilets. But all those funds allocated for this purpose now remain idle in banks. According to the CAG report, the Delhi Government did not give adequate importance to the implementation of the mission despite the Economic Survey of Delhi, 2016-17 revealing that 350,000 households in Delhi (about 10.5 per cent of all households) do not have toilet facility and 22 per cent slums lack toilet facility. The AAP, in its manifesto had promised to construct 200,000 toilet blocks in slums/JJ clusters and unauthorised colonies. However, post the formation of the Government, when a high-powered committee requested the Government to identify the sites and blocks for constructions, the latter assessed that the Capital would need to construct only 11,117 household toilets, 25,097 community toilets (including 16,050 for slums and JJs) and 605 public toilets under the Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan by October 2019. This marked a [https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=major%20departure&gs_l=news major departure] from the details published in the manifesto. The problem got further exacerbated due to the south and north Delhi Municipal Corporation (DMCs) not considering unauthorised colonies for projecting requirement of [https://www.travelwitheaseblog.com/?s=individual individual] household toilets. This was due to the fact that municipal corporations did not have jurisdiction over them. This left unauthorised colonies effectively out of the mission coverage with regard to household toilets. The Delhi Government's inability to target individual households for the construction of [https://openclipart.org/search/?query=household%20toilets household toilets] and to identify sites and blocks for construction of community toilets and public toilets, and ignoring the toilet requirements in unauthorised colonies shows its deficient concern for public convenience facilities. 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The UN report further states that 65,000 tonnes of uncovered, [https://www.dict.cc/?s=untreated%20faeces untreated faeces] equal to the weight of around 180 Airbus A380s were being introduced into the environment in India every single day. Thanks to the lack of toilets and toilet hygiene. With staggering statistics such as these, it is painful to note that funds for preventing the same are lying unused. Apart from the Government inability, there is also another factor in getting all of India's households and communities to use latrines, and to take collective responsibility for their upkeep. Many of the current practices responsible for the abysmal state of sanitation in the country are rooted in traditional notions of purity and hygiene often the same ones that normalise the allocation of sanitation work to the oppressed castes. Transforming sanitation in India will require a large-scale change in these beliefs, yet here again the Swachh Bharat Mission is faltering. 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