Briefly

SUDAN

Shelling leaves 56 dead in Khartoum

Artillery shelling and airstrikes killed at least 56 people across greater Khartoum on Saturday, according to a medical source and activists, the latest bloodshed in Sudan's devastating conflict between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. RSF shelling killed 54 and injured 158 people at a busy market in Omdurman, overwhelming the city's Al Nao Hospital, according to a medical source and the Health Ministry. The RSF denied carrying out the attack. In Khartoum proper, an airstrike on an RSF-controlled area killed two civilians and injured dozens, local volunteer group Emergency Response Rooms said.

CHAD

French troops formally pull out of country

Chad held a ceremony on Friday to mark the formal withdrawal of French troops from the country. At the ceremony, France handed over its main military base in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, marking the end of its 125-year military presence in the country. "We are not breaking our relationship with France, but we are putting an end to the military dimension of this cooperation," Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno said.

ALBANIA

Blow for Meloni as migrants return

Dozens of migrants left Italian-run facilities in Albania on Saturday after judges in Rome refused to approve their detention, in another setback for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. An Italian boat carrying 43 migrants departed from the Albanian port of Shengjin for the Italian port of Bari, according to an AFP journalist. The migrants arrived in Albania on Tuesday, the third group transferred under Italy's effort to outsource migrant processing to a non-European Union country and speed up repatriations of failed asylum-seekers.

Agencies - Xinhua