00:02For almost four years now, the civil war has been raging in Sudan, one of the countries in Africa with the highest reserves.
00:08of oil and gold.
00:09The clash was between the national army led by the de facto head of government, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan,
00:17and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
00:20But according to Roberto Roggero, editor-in-chief of the Assa Daka News agency,
00:25There are also foreign actors fueling the conflict.
00:30For several years now, Russia has been the leading country with interests in Sudan.
00:35There are obviously Chinese interests, then there are the interests of the United Arab Emirates which, it is said or not
00:41he says,
00:42they would be funding the real rebel soldiers.
00:46Then there is of course the Israeli side.
00:50Israel recognized Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia, which is an Israeli outpost on the Red Sea.
01:00It is estimated that heavy rains that caused floods in the Gaza Strip between the 7th and 8th
01:06November,
01:07At least 100,000 people have lost everything, had their tents damaged or swept away by the torrential waters,
01:14and with them also the few remaining possessions.
01:16Many families have thus lost their homes for the umpteenth time since the outbreak of the war in 2023.
01:23Madata Bhushanab, vice-president of the Land Research Center, reported this.
01:28which also distributes food parcels to displaced persons in Gaza.
01:33The families, explains the humanitarian worker, without new tents or prefabricated modules,
01:38They are forced to settle in unsafe and dilapidated buildings, due to the bombings,
01:45or create makeshift tents with worn-out tarps and pieces of wood and plastic.
01:51In El Salvador, Fidel Zavala was sentenced to 15 years in prison,
01:56activist committed to the defense of human rights and director of the non-governmental organization Unidec,
02:03arrested in February 2025. The charge, local media report,
02:08It concerns aggravated fraud and damages of three people for $4,025.
02:15The Central American NGO Christosal has denounced persecution and criminalization
02:21of human rights defenders under the presidency of Naib Bukele, in power in El Salvador since 2019.
02:28Unidec is ready to appeal against the sentence.
02:342026 will be remembered as the year of unquenchable fires in Indonesia,
02:39hit by months of drought fueled by climate change.
02:43As forests and cultivated fields burn, the cloud of dust makes the air unbreathable,
02:50while food prices skyrocket.
02:53Many citizens protested in Jakarta and Surabaya,
02:57while in Yogyakarta over 150 people ended up in handcuffs following clashes with the police.
03:04The emergency is urging governments to take part until November 20th
03:08at the COP31 climate conference in Antalya, Türkiye.
03:13The appeal of scientists and experts is the same.
03:15Bold action is needed to shift from fossil fuels to renewables,
03:21with funds for the transition and to help the most fragile countries
03:25to cope with increasingly extreme climate disasters.
