UNITED NATIONS: International medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Thursday told the United Nations Security Council that the Sudanese people have been met with “indifference and inaction” amid nearly two years of war.
“Two years of unrelenting violence have plagued Sudan, two years of devastation, displacement and death, millions uprooted, tens of thousands killed,” MSF Secretary General Christopher Lockyear said at a Security Council meeting.
“Two years of suffering met with two years of indifference and inaction.”
Since April 2023, Sudan has been engulfed in a war between the nation’s army, led by General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhane, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) helmed by General Mohamed Hamdane Dagalo.
“The war in Sudan is a war on people, a reality that grows more evident by the day,” Lockyear said, accusing the parties of not only failing to protect citizens but also “actively compounding their suffering.”
Lockyear critiqued the Security Council’s repeated calls for a ceasefire, calling their actions “hollow.”
“Whilst statements are being made in this chamber, civilians remain unseen, unprotected, bombed, besieged, raped, displaced, deprived of food, of medical care, of dignity,” he said.
The ongoing violence led MSF last month to suspend all activities in the famine-stricken Zamzam IDP refugee camp.
“This Council’s failure to translate its own demands into action feels like abandonment to violence and deprivation,” Lockyear said.
In UN meet, MSF slams ‘indifference’ toward war-torn Sudan
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In UN meet, MSF slams ‘indifference’ toward war-torn Sudan
- “Two years of unrelenting violence have plagued Sudan,” MSF Secretary General Christopher Lockyear said
- “Two years of suffering met with two years of indifference and inaction“
Ankara city hall says water cuts due to ‘record drought’
- Dam reservoir levels have dropped to 1.12 percent and taps are being shut off for several hours a day in certain districts on a rotating schedule in Ankara
ANKARA: Water cuts for the past several weeks in Turkiye’s capital were due to the worst drought in 50 years and an exploding population, a municipal official told AFP, rejecting accusations of mismanagement.
Dam reservoir levels have dropped to 1.12 percent and taps are being shut off for several hours a day in certain districts on a rotating schedule in Ankara, forcing many residents to line up at public fountains to fill pitchers.
“2025 was a record year in terms of drought. The amount of water feeding the dams fell to historically low levels, to 182 million cubic meters in 2025, compared with 400 to 600 million cubic meters in previous years. This is the driest period in the last 50 years,” said Memduh Akcay, director general of the Ankara municipal water authority.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called the Ankara municipal authorities, led by the main opposition party, “incompetent.”
Rejecting this criticism, the city hall says Ankara is suffering from the effects of climate change and a growing population, which has doubled since the 1990s to nearly six million inhabitants.
“In addition to reduced precipitation, the irregularity of rainfall patterns, the decline in snowfall, and the rapid conversion of precipitation into runoff (due to urbanization) prevent the dams from refilling effectively,” Akcay said.
A new pumping system drawing water from below the required level in dams will ensure no water cuts this weekend, Ankara’s city hall said, but added that the problem would persist in the absence of sufficient rainfall.
Much of Turkiye experienced a historic drought in 2025. The municipality of Izmir, the country’s third-largest city on the Aegean coast, has imposed daily water cuts since last summer.
