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A United Nations helicopter attempting to evacuate South Sudanese soldiers has come under fire near the town of Nasir, the UN mission (UNMISS) there said, resulting in the death of one crew member and several troops.
The attack came on Friday as the helicopter was trying to airlift soldiers following heavy clashes in Nasir between South Sudanese forces and the White Army militia, a group which President Salva Kiir’s government has linked to forces loyal to his rival and First Vice President Riek Machar.
“The attack … is utterly abhorrent and may constitute a war crime under international law”, said Nicholas Haysom, the head of UNMISS. “We also regret the killing of those that we were attempting to extract, particularly when assurances of safe passage had been received. UNMISS urges an investigation to determine those responsible and hold them accountable”.
The president’s office said Kiir would address the nation on Friday afternoon.
The White Army, whose members are mostly from the Nuer ethnic group, fought alongside Machar’s forces in the 2013-2018 civil war that pitted them against predominantly ethnic Dinka troops loyal to Kiir.
Machar’s spokesperson this week said security forces had arrested the petroleum minister, the peacebuilding minister, the deputy head of the army and other senior military officials allied with Machar, raising fears for the country’s fragile peace process.
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President Bola Tinubu has extended his heartfelt condolences to the family, friends, and associates of Dr. Doyin Okupe, a medical doctor, politician, communicator, and strategist, who played a significant role in Nigeria’s political landscape.
Okupe was a prominent son of Iperu-Remo in Ogun State and had served as ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs and ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s Special Assistant on Media.
He was also the National Publicity Secretary of the National Republican Convention (NRC) and played key roles in the United Nigeria Congress Party (UNCP), the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and the Accord Party, which he led as national leader.
In his condolence message posted on X by Mr. Bayo Onanuga the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy on Friday, Tinubu recalled Dr. Okupe as “a bold and articulate advocate for national development”, expressing deep sorrow over his passing.
“His wealth of experience and insight were still invaluable to the nation”, President Tinubu said.
He said: The President also commiserated with the government and people of Ogun State, particularly the Iperu-Remo community, who have lost an esteemed son and leader.
“He recognises Prince Okupe’s enduring impact on his home state and the deep void his passing leaves in the hearts of those who came in direct contact with him.
” President Tinubu prays that God will grant repose to the departed patriot’s soul and comfort all. “
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Millwall goalkeeper Liam Roberts has had his three-match ban for a dangerous challenge on Crystal Palace striker Jean-Philippe Mateta extended to six games.
The 30-year-old was sent off eight minutes into his side’s 3-1 FA Cup fifth-round defeat at Selhurst Park after kicking Mateta in the head as he tried to clear the ball.
Palace’s French striker was given oxygen before being taken to an ambulance and needed 25 stitches for a severe laceration to his left ear.
The clash initially went unpunished by referee Michael Oliver – it was only after a video assistant referee (VAR) intervention that Roberts was sent off.
Roberts ‘ red card meant he automatically received a three-game ban, but the Football Association (FA) said the punishment was “clearly insufficient” and submitted a claim to a regulatory commission to increase it.
Roberts faced criticism after the incident with Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parrish telling BBC Sport it was the “most reckless challenge I’ve ever seen”, while Eagles boss Oliver Glasner described it as a “terrible foul”.
Millwall head coach Alex Neill defended his player after the game saying his challenge was not deliberate.
The goalkeeper suffered what Millwall described as ‘ “disgusting” online abuse after the incident, and in a statement Roberts said he was “devastated by what happened”.
“I am devastated by what happened. I unequivocally accept the red card as awarded and accept my punishment.
” Furthermore, it has been extremely unpleasant to observe suggestions that I intended to harm a fellow professional. I have categorically never stepped onto a football pitch with the intention of hurting anyone.
“Misleading articles and comments have resulted in an unthinkable amount of abusive messages and threats towards my family and I.
The written reasons for the Independent Regulatory Commission’s decision will be released in due course.
The FA said:” The standard punishment for this offence was clearly insufficient, and Liam Roberts subsequently denied this.
“Following a hearing, the Regulatory Commission upheld the FA’s claim, set aside the standard three-match punishment, and instead imposed a six-match ban”.
Roberts has been Millwall’s reserve goalkeeper for much of the season – he has played in just two Championship matches after first choice Lukas Jensen suffered an injury in January.
It is hoped Mateta will be fit enough to return after the international break when Palace travel to Fulham, with Glasner saying the striker will go on a training trip to Spain next week.
The 27-year-old is Palace’s top scorer with 12 Premier League goals in 27 appearances this season.
“He had no fractures or concussion. Healing from the huge wound is going as we expected”, he said ahead of his side’s Premier League game with Ipswich Town on Saturday.
“He will go to Marbella with us next week and be just training individually. If everything goes how we wish, he will be available versus Fulham.
“To the People of Gaza: A beautiful Future awaits, but not if you hold Hostages. If you do, you are DEAD! Make a SMART decision. RELEASE THE HOSTAGES NOW OR THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY LATER”!
These were not the words of some far-right provocateur lurking in a dark corner of the internet. They were not shouted by an unhinged warlord seeking vengeance. No, these were the words of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, the most powerful man in the world. A man who with a signature, a speech or a single phrase can shape the fate of entire nations. And yet, with all this power, all this influence, his words to the people of Gaza were not of peace, not of diplomacy, not of relief – but of death.
I read them and I feel sick.
Because I know exactly who he is speaking to. He is speaking to my family. To my parents, who lost relatives and their home. To my siblings, who no longer have a place to return to. To the starving children in Gaza, who have done nothing but be born to a people the world has deemed unworthy of existence. To the grieving mothers who have buried their children. To the fathers who can do nothing but watch their babies die in their arms. To the people who have lost everything and yet are still expected to endure more.
Trump speaks of a “beautiful future” for the people of Gaza. But there is no future left where homes are gone, where whole families have been erased, where children have been massacred.
I read these words and I ask: What kind of a world do we live in?
A world where the leader of the so-called “free world” can issue a blanket death sentence to an entire population – two million people, most of whom are displaced, starving and barely clinging to life. A world where a man who commands the most powerful military can sit in his office, insulated from the screams, the blood, the unbearable stench of death, and declare that if the people of Gaza do not comply with his demand – if they do not somehow magically find and free hostages they have no control over – then they are simply “dead”. A world where genocide survivors are given an ultimatum of mass death by a man who claims to stand for peace.
This is not just absurd. It is evil.
Trump’s words are criminal. They are a direct endorsement of genocide. The people of Gaza are not responsible for what is happening. They are not holding hostages. They are the hostages – trapped by an Israeli war machine that has stolen everything from them. Hostages to a brutal siege that has starved them, bombed them, displaced them, left them with nowhere to go.
And now, they have become hostages to the most powerful man on Earth, who threatens them with more suffering, more death, unless they meet a demand they are incapable of fulfilling.
Most cynically, Trump knows his words will not be met with any meaningful pushback. Who in the American political establishment will hold him accountable for threatening genocide? The Democratic Party, which enabled Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza? Congress, which overwhelmingly supports sending US military aid to Israel with no conditions? The mainstream media, which have systematically erased Palestinian suffering? There is no political cost for Trump to make such statements. If anything, they bolster his position.
This is the world we live in. A world where Palestinian lives are so disposable that the president of the United States can threaten mass death without fear of any consequences.
I write this because I refuse to let this be just another outrageous Trump statement that people laugh off, that the media turns into a spectacle, that the world forgets. I write this because Gaza is not a talking point. It is not a headline. It is my home. My family. My history. My heart. My everything.
And I refuse to accept that the president of the United States can issue death threats to my people with impunity.
The people of Gaza do not control their own fate. They have never had that luxury. Their fate has always been dictated by the bombs that fall on them, by the siege that starves them, by the governments that abandon them. And now, their fate is being dictated by a man in Washington, DC, who sees no issue with threatening the annihilation of an entire population.
So I ask again: What kind of world do we live in?
And how long will we allow it to remain this way?