Tavares Cebola & Philip Kleinfeld
- Dec 22, 2020
Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado: Militants advance as aid access shrinks
‘Where are they going to strike next? We don’t know.’ MAPUTO The small group of militants were dismissed as bandits and machete-wielding gangs by Mozambique's government after they began launching attacks in the country's northernmost Cabo Delgado province in October 2017. A little more than three years later, the jihadists count thousands in their ranks and end 2020 having seized towns, launched deadly cross-border raids, and displaced more than half a million people – the v
Thomas Fessy | Human Rights Watch
- Dec 21, 2020
DR Congo’s Yumbi Massacre Survivors Desperate for Justice
Two Years On, No Accountability for 535 Killed Published by HRW on December 16, 2020. Voting in the presidential election was postponed in Yumbi and two areas of North Kivu province. (AFP) In late December 2018, Father Nestor Longota, a Catholic priest, returned to Bongende, his home village in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo. “What I saw was unimaginable,” he said last week. “There were putrefied bodies, some were mutilated, others had been burned in houses, and house
Ewelina U. Ochab | Forbes contributor
- Dec 21, 2020
What Happened To The Promise Of Never Again?
What happened to the promise of Never Again? Time and time again, the promise is repeated following new mass atrocities, yet it is never fulfilled. It is a promise that will shame us for generations to come. Our children and their children will ask us: what did we do when the Yazidis and Christians were slaughtered by Daesh? What did we do when the Burmese military were killing the Rohingyas in Myanmar? What did we do when millions of Uyghur were forced into so-called re-educ
Belkis Wille | Human Rights Watch
- Dec 20, 2020
Why Are Russians Paying for Bombing Schools in Syria?
A woman and her daughter walk through a street filled with rubble in the town of Ariha in the southern countryside of Idlib governorate on April 5, 2020. © 2020 Aaref Watad/AFP via Getty Images The Russian military marked the fifth anniversary of its intervention in the armed conflict in Syria on September 30. The consequences have been devastating for many Syrian civilians, with hundreds of thousands killed and millions more forced to flee their homes. While all sides to th
Al Jazeera
- Dec 19, 2020
US Muslim groups accuse OIC of abetting China’s Uighur ‘genocide’
Coalition of US Muslim groups, including Council on American-Islamic Relations, says OIC members are being cowed by China’s power. Rushan Abbas of Campaign for Uyghurs speaks to a group gathered near the White House to call on the US government to respond to China's alleged abuses of Uighurs [File: Leah Millis/Reuters] Muslim groups in the United States have pleaded for the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to speak out on China’s mass imprisonment of Uighurs, accusing the
Mike Thomson I BBC
- Dec 18, 2020
Sudan's Darfur conflict: Why Abdullah has never seen his 'home'
As international peacekeepers prepare to finally leave Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, concerns are growing for the safety of civilians if the new fragile peace deal there fails, as the BBC's Mike Thomson reports. Fourteen-year-old Abdullah sits on an old tire outside a ramshackle hut in a sprawling, impoverished camp for displaced people. He was born in Abu Shouk camp, just outside Fasher in North Darfur, where he has spent his entire life - he has never seen the village his
Maung Zarni
- Dec 18, 2020
Leading scholars’ consensus was clear: Neither ICJ nor ICC on their own will deliver Rohingyas from
On 15 December 2020, a group of leading scholars and experts from Canada, the USA, and Ireland involved in the global campaign to end Myanmar’s genocide of Rohingyas held a legal roundtable, jointly organized by the Free Rohingya Coalition and FORSEA. You can access the full live panel recorded here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=830482987771607 Leading scholars’ consensus was loud and clear: neither ICJ nor ICC, in and of themselves, will deliver Rohingyas on their own f
Andrew Harding | BBC News
- Dec 18, 2020
Mozambique's Islamist insurgency: UN warns of rising violence in Cabo Delgado
The number of civilians forced from their homes by conflict in northern Mozambique has quadrupled this year - to 420,000 - according to the United Nations. It links the crisis in Cabo Delgado province not just to attacks by Islamist militants, but to a perceived failure to distribute vast mineral and off-shore gas revenues to the local population. A senior UN refugee agency official visiting Cabo Delgado described the situation there as "really dire" and urged Mozambique's ne
Jean Fernand Koena | Deutsche Welle
- Dec 18, 2020
RCA: début de campagne sur fond de discours de haine
Les autorités tentent de combattre les discours de haine et les fausses nouvelles relayés sur les médias et les réseaux sociaux. Publié par Deutsche Welle le 14 décembre 2020. United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic - Pacome Pabamdji (AFP/Getty Images) Comme partout ailleurs, les réseaux sociaux influencent les débats en République centrafricaine en colportant des informations pas toujours vérifiées. Le problème toutefois est que les médias traditionnels s
Eugène Bakama Bope | The Conversation
- Dec 18, 2020
Did Ethiopia’s attack on Tigray violate international laws?
A legal scholar weighs in on the decision taken by Ethiopian prime minister Ahmed Abiy to send troops into the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray, to quell what the government sees as an insurgency. Published by The Conversation on December 9, 2020. Republished by The Africa Report on December 15, 2020. The fighting in Tigray has left thousands dead, according to the International Crisis Group (EDUARDO SOTERAS/AFP) In Ethiopia, the national army claims to have taken “complet
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