Zeit Online
Zeit Online has highlighted the warning given by the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, about the effects of the increase in unrest in Sudan. It quoted Guterres addressing the United Nations Security Council saying that the perpetrators of the war in Sudan are inciting violence and foreign countries are exacerbating the conflict. The country's citizens are living in the midst of horrific killings and unspeakable atrocities including rape, infectious diseases spreading rapidly and ethnic conflicts.
Furthermore, the online newspaper has quoted Guterres as saying that the people who were forced to leave their homes in North Darfur are facing severe food shortages and starvation.
In recent days, there have been horrific reports of genocide and sexual violence in villages in Al Jazeera's region. Figures from the United Nations and a medical organization show that more than 120 people were killed in an attack carried out by fighters of the RSF group in the region.
The United Nations Children's Fund says several children were among those killed and at least 43 children were injured. The war in Sudan broke out in April 2023 due to tensions between the official army of the country and the fighters of the RSF group. According to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data organization that monitors conflicts, more than 24,000 people have been killed since the war broke out. More than 11 million others have been forced to flee the fighting and three million of them have fled to neighboring countries.
die tageszeitung
die tageszeitung has written about the action of the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to prevent the peacekeeping mission of the United Nations, MONUSCO from leaving the Congo contrary to what was previously planned.
In addition, this newspaper has quoted the minister of foreign affairs, Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, who spoke in London on Tuesday saying that the departure of the Congolese forces will be a difficult issue due to the current security situation.
According to the current agreement, the presence of the peacekeeping troops in the country will end on December 20 this year. Since May, the soldiers have been present in the eastern regions of North Kivu and Ituri which are facing chaos.
Wagner has said that there is a need for these soldiers to continue to be present in the Democratic Republic of the Congo due to the alleged presence of 4,000 fighters from Rwanda on the side of the M23 rebels in North Kivu. United Nations peacekeepers have been helping the Southern African Development Community, SADC, who are cooperating with the government to put an end to the rebellion.
Diplomatic efforts made by Angola to resolve the conflict between the national government and the M23 rebels have so far not borne fruit and the rebels have continued to advance again in North Kivu.
Neue Zürcher,
This week, Neue Zürcher has highlighted the cry of civil organizations in Tunisia who are complaining about being suppressed by the government of President Kais Saed.
It explains that, once again Kais Saied won by a landslide in the recent elections. However, the hope of many people for the political stability has faded. Non-governmental organizations in particular feel that they are being harassed by the authorities.
The head of the Al Kawakibi democracy center in the country, Amine Ghali, has been quoted by this newspaper as saying that unfortunately the organizations have the right to be afraid. He says many prison sentences due to helping immigrants, investigations against organizations defending human rights and democracy, and discussions against those organizations are at the highest level in the government.
Ghali has said that this is happening despite the fact that there has been good cooperation between civil organizations and the public sector in the country for a decade.
Neuer Zürcher goes further and says that right now many civil society organizations are under great pressure and are often not ready to talk openly about the issue.
Siwar Gmati of the I Watch organization has explained how the authorities persecuted the organization. They have been called and asked to explain themselves to the authorities 16 times in the past year. I Watch, which primarily fights corruption, is known to be one of the most complex organizations with a strong voice.
At the beginning of September, the Electoral Commission in the country, ISIE, announced that the organization and another one monitoring the elections were not given permits to monitor the elections because they received controversial funds from abroad to disrupt the affairs of the nation. The decision, according to Amine Ghali of the Kawabiki democracy center, had an impact on the transparency of the election. Normally there were 20,000 election observers, but this time there were only 1,700 observers in nearly 5,000 polling stations.
The newspaper has written a lot about the situation but ends by writing that there have been repeated attempts to pass laws against corporations. The leaked draft and the official draft have one thing in common. All of them aim to restrict the civil organizations that Tunisia had hoped for after the 2011 revolution.
