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As the humanitarian situation in the area worsens, thousands more Sudanese people are fleeing the country’s bloody war.

According to the most recent data that the UN has confirmed, more than 4.3 million Sudanese have emigrated to neighboring countries since the government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) joined the civil war in April 2023.

Nearly 12 million people are being forced to flee their homes in Sudan because of the worst displacement crisis in history.

Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese people are reportedly preparing to travel to eastern Chad because they think it will be safer and where they can get food. However, they are traveling to a nation where about 7 million people, at least 50% of them children, already require aid from the humanitarian system.

Every day, thousands of families visit Tine, a border town between Sudan and Chad.

Abdulsalam Abubakar, a Tine resident, informed Ahmed Idris that the same amount of money he used to purchase food and other essential items a few days ago will no longer be able to purchase the same amount.

He said, “Nothing in the market here is cheap, everything is expensive.”

The food producers claim that the price of food is going up because of the dramatically increased demand during the most severe wartimes.

More than 10,000 Sudanese people came here after their country collapsed, according to trader Khadijah Kurgule, adding that “now food is expensive.”

She told Al Jazeera, “There are goods everywhere, but people can’t afford them.”

More than one million people have entered Chad since the start of the Sudanese war thanks to the thousands who have fled the RSF-led mass killings in and around El-Fasher.

Idris, a journalist for Al Jazeera, claimed that Sudan’s refugees’ constant arrivals have increased the need for food, shelter, and water.

He claimed that humanitarian aid workers worry that this could cause host and refugee communities to rift.

Long lines have developed at distribution points for water and aid collection, and overextended hospitals and schools have also become a common occurrence.

UNHCR representative on the ground, John-Paul Habamungu, claimed that there are no schools for the majority of the new Sudanese population.

“We lack the funds to build, at least temporarily, learning spaces. He claimed that we lack the resources to find teachers.

Aid workers have warned that the worst may still be coming as the conflict in Sudan continues to rage indefinitely, despite the UN’s efforts to relocate several thousand refugees to nearby areas.

Abdul Rahim Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy leader of the RSF, and Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo’s brother, were subject to sanctions by the European Union on Thursday for crimes committed during the El-Fasher storm.

According to the European Commission, the sanctions place Dagalo under an EU-wide travel ban, freeze potential assets, and forbid him from making indirect or direct profits from other resources within the bloc’s 27 nations.

An aviation emergency is brewing in Nepal.

One of the world’s most hazardous places to fly is the South Asian nation, which is located in the Himalayas.

Nearly 40 crashes involving all types of aircraft, from helicopters to double-engine planes, have claimed hundreds of lives since 2010.

Nepal’s tourism sector, one of the country’s main economic drivers, benefits enormously from aviation, but critics claim that more people must be killed before it can be.

Israeli settlement violence against Palestinians is at an all-time high in the West Bank, despite little mainstream media coverage. The few journalists who attempt to cover it frequently experience self-aggrandize.

Despite the state’s explicit support for the settlers, the settlers are frequently portrayed as fringe actors when the violence is covered up. The West Bank is currently in the process of de facto annexation, but the majority of the world’s media is still on the fence.

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Bangladesh was shaken by a low-magnitude tremor a day after a serious earthquake struck the capital, Dhaka, killing at least 10 people.

Disaster management official Ishtiaqe Ahmed, who updated earlier tolls from Friday’s magnitude 5.5 earthquake, reported on Saturday that “a few hundred were hurt while the casualties have reached 10”.

Dhaka and the nearby districts experienced widespread destruction and panic as a result of Friday’s earthquake.

Another minor jolt was reported on Saturday at 10:36 a.m. (04:36 GMT), according to Omar Faruq of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department.

The meteorologist told AFP that Ashulia, north of the capital, was at the epicenter of the 3.3 tremor.

Aftershocks are common following powerful earthquakes, but some in Bangladesh are concerned about even greater disasters.

“I don’t feel safe yet because Ashulia experienced another jolt this morning. Shahnaj Parvin, who lives close to the epicenter of Friday’s earthquake and has never been in the same situation before, speculated that we might be the next.

She claimed that dozens of her neighborhood’s homes have developed cracks.

When the tremor struck, Parvin continued, “I was hanging my children’s clothes on the washing line.”

To coordinate relief and rescue operations, the government has activated Bangladesh’s emergency operation center.

The country of 170 million people are earthquake-prone due to Bangladesh’s geography, according to Rubayet Kabir of the Meteorological Department’s Earthquake Observation and Research Centre.

After any significant earthquake, Kabir predicted that there would be some minor tremors. Bangladesh has been vulnerable for a while, he told AFP, “but there hasn’t been a major earthquake in the last 100 years or more.”

A Dhaka resident named Shadman Sakif Islam told Al Jazeera on Friday that a “massive shake” started to occur as the earth shook as a result of “small ripples” he noticed in his coffee.

He continued, “My chair and the table started shaking wildly, and I spent ten to fifteen seconds staring blankly at what was happening.”

The resident continued, “I’ve never felt this in my entire life; I felt like going on a boat and riding massive waves one after another.”

As England meekly surrendered in the Perth Stadium cauldron on Saturday, Travis Head’s makeshift opener smacked a 69-ball century to win the first high-speed Ashes Test.

Head slammed 123 in a 205-win innings as the hosts won by eight wickets on day one of the five-match series. Steve Smith and Marshall Labuschagne both had 51 and were on two.

After lunch, the marauding pace pair Scott Boland and Mitchell Starc unleashed a stunning England collapse, leading to Head’s heroics.

With four wickets in as many overs, Boland and Starc left the visitors reeling, but they were 65-1 and extending an ominous lead.

Ben Duckett (28), Ollie Pope (33), and Harry Brook (23), all accounted for in 11 balls by a ruthless Boland, and Joe Root was ordered to pack up for eight more with two deliveries later.

England were flailing at 88-6 when Starc removed skipper Ben Stokes (2), and the veteran paceman had only managed to get a 10-wicket haul in his third start, a career-best 7-58.

Before being rolled for 164 at tea, England were only partially rescued by a crucial 50-run stand between Brydon Carse (20) and Gus Atkinson (30).

Usman Khawaja struggled back stiffness when they returned, with Australia signaling their intentions by sending in Head.

Head, who has opened nine times in Test cricket, quickly adapted to his destructive rhythm, scoring big sixes off Mark Wood and Carse.

He scored a half-century in 36 balls, passing 4, 000 Test runs in the process, making it look easy on him by mocking the struggles other batsmen faced on the bouncy track.

Jake Weatherald, the debutant, also launched an attack in an effort to emulate him, but it cost him, who was knocked out for 23 after Ben Duckett off Carse with a mistimed pull shot.

On the way to a 10th Test century, Jofra Archer was sent a six back over the head of an unruffled Head, who kept the pressure on.

He eventually sided with Carse, who had hoped for a bigger hit.

Starc stars

Australia regrouped with a paltry 123-9 lead in their opening innings, adding just nine before Carse removed Lyon for four as England’s 40-run lead was taken.

Stokes won the game’s opener by winning 5-23 off just 36 balls, giving England the first-ever Test win in Australia since the 2010-11 series.

They had all already lost on Starc for 172.

The 35-year-old’s ability to emulate his success in the second innings was stoked by the sold-out Perth Stadium crowd when he removed Zak Crawley in his first over.

Crawley was given a pair by the veteran, who jumped to his left in an incredible athleticism for a memorable caught-and-bowled.

At 59-1, Duckett and Pope made their way to lunch.

When they returned, Scott Boland started to notice his radar.

After Duckett edged to Steve Smith in the slips, Pope beat wicketkeeper Alex Carey, and Brook then performed the same to Khawaja.

Joe Root dragged a thick edge onto his stumps to cap a poor series start after a first-inning duck. However, the relentless Starc could not match him.

After that, Brendan Doggett cleaned Jamie Smith (15), Carse (15), and Archer (15).