Intensifying drone attacks in the Port Sudan area — the UN humanitarian aid hub for Sudan — are increasing threats to aid delivery, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday. “Our humanitarian colleagues said they’re deeply concerned by the intensifying drone attacks on civilian infrastructure in Port Sudan, in theContinue Reading
Mali on Monday announced the decision to close its airspace to all civilian and military aircraft traveling to and from Algeria, effective immediately and until further notice, as tension escalates between the two countries after Algeria shot down a Malian drone. The Malian Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure saidContinue Reading
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger issued a joint statement on Sunday, recalling their ambassadors to Algeria in protest against the downing of a Malian military drone by Algerian forces. The three governments “strongly condemned” Algeria’s actions, stating that the drone strike “disrupted an operation targeting a group planning aContinue Reading
Three people were killed and eight others injured in an overnight Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian capital, Ukraine’s interior ministry said in a statement Sunday. Among the killed were a five-year-old girl and her father, the statement said. The drones and their debris hit apartment buildings inContinue Reading
