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Crop Comments: Mid-Season Corrections for Horrible Weather
That’s the title of Tom Kilcer’s June 2025 monthly newsletter, available at advancedagsys.com. Kilcer is a Certified Crop Advisor who served for 28 years as a field crops agent working for the Extension service in Columbia County, NY. He then...

Call for urgent investigation as Sudan mine collapse claims ‘at least 11’ lives
Several parties have called for an urgent investigation into the collapse of the Karsh El Fil mine in the Howaid area of Sudan’s Red Sea state, while the foreign ministries of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, the UAE, and other countries, as...

Kenya, France reaffirm commitment to climate goals, regional security
Speaking from Seville at a high-level forum on global cooperation, President Macron emphasized his common vision with President William Ruto: no country should be forced to choose between economic progress and environmental protection. French...

Culture workers feel the pain of Sudan’s endless civil war
Sudan’s brutal civil war—driven by a power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)—has devastated the country for the past two years. UN and human rights organisations report war crimes,...

UN chief says aid surge needed to face 'climate chaos, ragin...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the world to "rev up the engine of development" at an aid conference in Spain on Monday at a time when US-led cuts are jeopardising the fight against poverty and climate change. Dozens of world leaders...

LiFE and death: Indian government’s climate doublespeak
The climate crisis, already wreaking havoc across the world, requires urgent action. Among those claiming to be at the forefront of this is India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. With his penchant for labels and acronyms, in 2021 he presented the...

UN chief seeks aid surge to check ‘climate chaos’
SEVILLE: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged the world to “rev up the engine of development” at an aid conference in Spain on Monday at a time when US-led cuts are jeopardising the fight against poverty and climate change. Dozens of world...

The Media Line: Sudan Gold Mine Collapse Kills 11 in Red Sea State
Sudan Gold Mine Collapse Kills 11 in Red Sea State By The Media Line Staff At least 11 miners died and seven others were injured when a gold mine collapsed in northeastern Sudan, the state-run Mineral Resources Company confirmed on Sunday. The...
Gold miners killed in pit collapse in war-torn Sudan
At least 11 miners have been killed and seven others injured in a partial gold mine collapse in war-torn Sudan’s eastern Nile State, according to local officials. The incident occurred over the weekend at the Karsh al-Fil mine in the Houeid desert...
11 killed, 7 injured in Sudan gold mine collapse
KHARTOUM, June 29 (Xinhua) -- At least 11 people were killed and seven injured after a gold mine collapsed in northeastern Sudan, state-run Mineral Resources Company said on Sunday. The incident occurred at the Kersh Al-Feel mine in the Houeid...

11 killed, 7 injured in Sudan gold mine collapse Khartoum
At least 11 people were killed and seven injured after a gold mine collapsed in northeastern Sudan, state-run Mineral Resources Company said. The incident occurred at the Kersh Al-Feel mine in the Houeid area, between the cities of Atbara and Haya...

Starving Sudanese people eating weeds to survive amid brutal war
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Gold Mine Collapse Leaves Over Fifty Dead in Sudan
(MENAFN) More than 50 people lost their lives when a gold mine collapsed in northeastern Sudan, according to reports from local media on Sunday. The incident occurred on Saturday in the Howaid desert, situated in Sudan's Nile River State, a...

Floods expected in Khartoum following failure in Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam operation
The Professor of Geology and Water Resources at Cairo University, Abbas Sharaky, said there is a high probability of flooding on both sides of the Blue Nile and the Nile rivers near the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, at the end of August, similar...
UN official: Armed conflict in Sudan puts civilians at jeopardy
[Sat, 28 Jun 2025 16:46:41 +0300] New York - Saba: The United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Martha Poubey, said that too many lives have been lost in Sudan, causing significant psychological trauma, and the threat of a regional...

Otumfuo speaks on war in DR Congo, Somalia, Sudan during King Mswati's visit
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has called on countries embroiled in conflict on the African continent to make peace reign. He stated that the conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Chad, and Sudan do not reflect well on the...

Sudanese youth launch peace campaign in Uganda
Prepared by Sudanile.com for Sudan Media Forum Sudanese youth have launched a new peace campaign from Uganda’s capital Kampala, aiming to leverage social media and traditional arts to foster reconciliation and end the ongoing conflict in their...

From Climate Crisis to Climate Resilience: In Africa at Local and Regional Levels
Call to Action Engages Continents, Countries, Nations, Cities Around the World Vatican African Conference on Climate Resilience, Nairobi, 30 June – 1 July, 2025 NAIROBI, Kenya (26 June 2025) – The Pontifical Academy of Sciences (PAS) and the...

Kenya Hits Back at Sudan After Claims of Backing RSF Militia
Kenya has strongly hit back at the government of Sudan following fresh accusations by the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) alleging Nairobi's interference in Khartoum’s internal affairs. In a statement issued by the Office of the Prime Cabinet Secretary,...

The New Reality of Port Sudan
Across Africa, people can no longer afford the cities and neighborhoods they've long called home. OkayAfrica has developed a series exploring the housing crisis transforming African cities and communities, and what happens when basic shelter...