SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Chucky Lozano was greeted to a nice ovation today at Snapdragon Stadium, as the soccer super star and new San Diego FC forward met with the media. Lozano has had a nice career on the pitch playing professionally for LigaMX, the Dutch professional soccer league Eredevisie, as well as the top league in Italy Serie A. He has also been a big part of the Mexican national team. He will begin play with San Diego FC in 2025.

“I am excited to get ready for the season and joining San Diego FC.”

In his 12 professional season’s Lozano has been about winning and scoring goals. He has 94 career goals in league play, and now his number goal will be to bring an MLS championship to San Diego.

“My objective is to work hard, to give my all, and to give my all for the city of San Diego. We will work hard to give San Diego championships and titles, as I think we will be a great team in MLS. I think the base is there and I am sure we will do great.”

Meeting with the media was very exciting for Lozano, and it was also proved to be very emotional.

“I think it was because of my family being here, and because my first head coach was here, I felt all those emotions just come to me. I couldn’t hold back as it was a natural moment and it was just beautiful my family was here as well.”

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — It has been 18 years since the killing of a 31-year-old man in the Lincoln Park neighborhood, and San Diego police investigators are still working to solve the case.

On the evening of Dec. 23, 2005, authorities found a man who had been shot in front of a home in the 5000 block of Manomet Street, San Diego County Crime Stoppers along with the San Diego Police Department said in a news release Thursday.

The victim, identified as Thomas Johnson, died from his injuries.

Authorities determined Johnson had left his home at around 10:30 p.m. and returned there ten minutes later.

A witness told law enforcement they heard several gunshots after a loud commotion near the front of the home.

Anyone with information on the identity and or location of the suspect(s) linked to the killing of Johnson is asked to call the SDPD’s Homicide Cold Case Unit at 619-531-2293 or the Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at 888-580-8477.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Thursday demanding that Sudan’s paramilitary force halt its siege of the only capital in the vast western region of Darfur that it doesn’t control where more than a million people are reportedly trapped.

The resolution, which was approved by a vote of 14-0 with Russia abstaining, expresses “grave concern” at the spreading violence and credible reports that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are carrying out “ethnically motivated violence” in El Fasher.

Sudan plunged into conflict in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between its military and paramilitary leaders broke out in the capital Khartoum and spread to other regions including Darfur, which became synonymous with genocide two decades ago. The U.N. says over 14,000 people have been killed and 33,000 injured.

Two decades ago, Darfur became synonymous with genocide and war crimes, particularly by the notorious Janjaweed Arab militias, against populations that identify as Central or East African. Up to 300,000 people were killed and 2.7 million were driven from their homes.

That legacy appears to have returned, with the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor, Karim Khan, saying in January there are grounds to believe both sides may be committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide in Darfur.

The RSF was formed from Janjaweed fighters by former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who ruled the country for three decades before being overthrown during a popular uprising in 2019. He is wanted by the ICC on charges of genocide and other crimes during the conflict in Darfur in the 2000s.

The resolution demands that the RSF and government forces ensure the protection of civilians, including allowing those wishing to move in El Fasher or leave the North Darfur capital to safer areas.

It calls for an immediate halt to the fighting and de-escalation around El Fasher, and for “the withdrawal of all fighters that threaten the safety and security of civilians.”

The resolution calls on both sides “to seek an immediate cessation of hostilities, leading to a sustainable resolution to the conflict, through dialogue,” supported by U.N. envoy Ramtane Lamamra and the African Union’s High-Level Panel on Sudan.

It also calls on all nations to halt interference fomenting conflict and instability instead of peace efforts and to remind countries supplying weapons to the combatants that they are violating a U.N. arms embargo and could face sanctions.

U.N. political chief Rosemary DiCarlo told the council on April 19 that the year-long war has been fueled by weapons from foreign supporters who continue to flout U.N. sanctions aimed at helping end the conflict. “This is illegal, it is immoral, and it must stop,” she said.

She didn’t name any of the foreign supporters.

But Burhan, who led a military takeover of Sudan in 2021, is a close ally of neighboring Egypt and its president, former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. In February, Sudan’s foreign minister held talks in Tehran with his Iranian counterpart amid unconfirmed reports of drone purchases for government forces.

Dagalo, the leader of the RSF, has reportedly received support from Russia’s Wagner mercenary group. U.N. experts said in a recent report that the RSF has also received support from Arab allied communities and new military supply lines running through Chad, Libya and South Sudan.

The resolution expresses concern at “the catastrophic and deteriorating humanitarian situation, including crisis-level or worse acute food insecurity, and the imminent risk of famine, particularly in Darfur.”

The U.N. humanitarian office said Tuesday that the U.N. and aid organizations “are working against the clock to stave off famine and mitigate the most pressing humanitarian needs in Sudan.

But the U.N. said this is “incredibly challenging” because this year’s humanitarian appeal for Sudan is just 16% cent funded — with less than $441 million received of the $2.7 billion required.