The UN, the International Rescue Committee and other aid organizations temporarily suspended many of their humanitarian operations in Sudan as fighting between the military and a powerful rival paramilitary group raged for a third day on Monday.
The big picture: Three World Food Program workers are among the 180 civilians killed in the fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to the United Nations.
Seven Ukrainian MPs who serve on a commission that coordinates arms requests and deliveries with partner countries briefed reporters on Monday that the window for a Ukrainian counter-offensive is now opening, but Kyiv is still desperately short on much-needed supplies.
A power struggle between rival generals has exploded into three days of urban warfare in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, with around 180 civilians dead and growing fears the fighting may plunge Sudan into civil war.
The big picture: Army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan joined forces with Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, the head of the powerful Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, to mount a coup in October 2021. Now their pact has broken down, and they're waging what analysts believe both see as an "existential" fight.
Chinese surveillance giant Hikvision has repeatedlydenied reports that the company is complicit in human rights abuses targeting Uyghurs in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang.
But new details from an internal review of its contracts with police agencies in the region reveal the company has known since at least 2020 that some of its Xinjiang contracts were a "problem" because they included language about targeting Uyghurs as a group, according to a recording of a recent private company meeting obtained by technology trade publication IPVM and exclusively shared with Axios.
Why it matters: The Chinese government is perpetrating an ongoing campaign of genocide and mass detention of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the country's northwest region of Xinjiang.
An American warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait Sunday — days after China's military conducted live-fire drills around the island and as diplomats from the Group of Seven nations gathered in Japan to discuss increasing threats from Beijing.
The big picture: The U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet in a statement Monday described the guided-missile destroyer USS Milius' transit through the strait as a "routine" demonstration of "the United States' commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific."
Fighting between the Sudanese military and the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group continued for a second day on Sunday, with a Sudanese physicians' association reporting that dozens of soldiers and civilians have been killed and hundreds of others injured.
Why it matters: It's some of the worst unrest the country, particularly the capital Khartoum, has seen in years. It also exacerbates the political crisis Sudan has faced for months and makes it even harder for the country to return to the democratic transition process.
