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Newsday: 01/05/2023 05:06 GMT : UN relief chief heads to Sudan

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01/05/2023 05:06 GMT : UN relief chief heads to Sudan

UN relief chief heads to Sudan

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UN Humanitarian Affairs chief Martin Griffiths has been sent to the region.

Martin Griffiths said he would explore how to bring immediate relief to the millions of Sudanese people whose lives have been turned upside down overnight.

The United Nations Secretary General is sending a special envoy to Sudan to coordinate humanitarian operations there, as fighting between rival military factions entered its third week.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that Turkey's intelligence service has killed the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Hussein al-Qurashi, in Syria.

And one of Argentina’s “death flight” airplanes is set to be repatriated from the US.

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