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Sudan's warring parties signed a commitment late Thursday on guidelines for allowing humanitarian assistance.

Following a U.S. announcement that the two sides battling each other in Sudan were ready to negotiate a truce and would respect civilian needs, little has changed in fighting across the country.

Fighting in Sudan's capital has escalated with air strikes, as delegations of rival military factions continue talks in Saudi Arabia.

China has objected to the proposal from India to add Abdul Rauf of the JeM to the UN Security Councils 1267 ISIL and Al Qaida Sanctions list.

The Global Report on Food Crises, an alliance of humanitarian organizations founded by the U.N. and European Union, said people faced starvation and death in seven of those countries: Somalia, Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Haiti, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen.

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) sounded the alarm on Wednesday after locusts were spotted in the country’s north and northeast.

The UN World Food Program (WFP) said food insecurity remains at severely high levels in Yemen despite the decrease in the number of households unable to meet their minimum food needs. In a report released earlier this month, it added that “52 percent of the surveyed households in the south and 44 percent of those in the north reported inadequate food consumption during March 2023.”

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's April 15, 2008, trip to theU.S. is a valuable opportunity to affirm the strategic importanceof the U.S.-South Korea bilateral partnership and repair thestrains wrought by the previous South Korean administration'spolicies.

The House and Senate are both in action this week, as the clock ticks toward the federal government hitting the debt ceiling as soon as June.

Sudan’s two warring generals sent their envoys on Friday to Saudi Arabia for talks aimed at firming up a shaky cease-fire after three weeks of fierce fighting that has killed hundreds and pushed the African country to the brink of collapse, three Sudanese officials said. The negotiations would be the first between Sudan’s military, led…