AP News
- Jan 31
Jihadist attacks kill 32 in Burkina Faso
31 January 2023 By Arsene Kabore and Sam Mednick File photo of Burkina Faso army officers on a patrol in Kaya, capital of Burkina Faso's north-central region, taken on November 20, 2021. © Olympia de Maismont, AFP OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Multiple jihadi attacks across Burkina Faso over several days have resulted in the death of at least 32 people, including soldiers and civilians, government authorities said Tuesday. Burkina Faso’s State Information Agency posted on
Why are almost half of Niger’s children not in school?
In a country where half the population is under the age of 15, almost half of all children are not in school. It’s a crisis that doesn’t make the headlines. Why are so many of Niger’s children missing out on the vital right to education? Abena joins her classmates in breathing exercises – a technique used to help children overcome stress and trauma. Photo: Tom Peyre-Costa/NRC By, Rebecca Crombleholme Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world, with more than 10 millio
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- Jan 30
Syria Committed 2018 Douma Chemical Attack
By Martin Chulov Watchdog report follows years-long investigation into strike that killed 43 civilians in Damascus suburb. A photograph reportedly of a child being treated in a hospital in Douma after a suspected chemical attack on 7 April 2018. Photograph: Reuters. Investigators from the global chemical weapons agency have found the Syrian regime responsible for a poison gas attack that killed 43 people in a suburb of Damascus in 2018, leaving victims choking to death in the
Foreign Policy
- Jan 30
How Russia’s Wagner Group Is Fueling Terrorism in Africa
Moscow’s scramble for valuable resources has come at the cost of regional security. By Colin P. Clarke, the director of research at the Soufan Group and a senior research fellow at the Soufan Center. People fleeing violence in Mali walk through the weekly market in the M'Berra refugee camp in Bassikounou, Mauritania, on June 7, 2022. GUY PETERSON/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES JANUARY 25, 2023, 5:34 PM Speaking before the United Nations Security Council this month, James Kariuki, Brita
United Nations
- Jan 30
South Sudan: UN plea for intervention to end ‘escalating violence’
28 December 2022 © UNICEF/Helene Sandbu Ryeng
Bathi Kuju is playing with his youngest daughter Gol at a nutrition centre in Pibor, South Sudan Facebook The UN mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) together with international partners, have called for the immediate end to mounting violence in the Greater Pibor area by armed youth from Jonglei state. News reports say at least 57 have died since early on Sunday, with more than a dozen injured. UNMISS, the African Union mission, region
United Nations
- Jan 30
UN envoy sees ‘real chance’ of political solution in Sudan
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Dr. Volker Perthes, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Sudan and Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) during an interview with UN News. Facebook More than a year after the military coup in Sudan, political parties began talks this month aimed at restoring a civilian-led transition, which the UN has hailed as an important step towards peace and democracy. The coup ended a power-
VOA News
- Jan 30
Reprisals Feared in Nigeria after Bombing of 40 Pastoralists
Timothy Obiezu January 27, 2023 FILE - Herders graze their livestock in Nigeria's northern state of Kaduna, Nov. 15, 2016. The death toll has risen to 40 from an attack on animal herders on the border between Nigeria's Nassarawa and Benue states, officials said Jan. 26, 2023. ABUJA, NIGERIA — Officials in Nigeria say the death toll from an attack on animal herders has risen to 40. The strike took place Wednesday in Rukubi, a village on the border between Nigeria's Nassarawa a
Amnesty International
- Jan 30
Equatorial Guinea: ‘Cleaning Operation’ tramples human rights
August 18, 2022 The Equatorial Guinean authorities must immediately stop arbitrarily and indiscriminately arresting young men in their fight against gang crime, said Amnesty International today after documenting numerous testimonies related to these arrests. In response to an alleged increase in crime by youth gangs, especially a group known as the “8 Machetes”, Equatorial Guinea’s Vice President, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, launched a national plan to combat these gangs at
The Guardian
- Jan 30
World Uyghur Congress loses lawsuit against UK
WUC claimed UK unlawfully failed or refused to investigate cotton imports from Xinjiang Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent Lawyers and representatives from the World Uyghur Congress and members of the Uyghur community in the UK standing outside the high court in London last October. Photograph: Tom Pilgrim/PA The World Uyghur Congress has said it is disappointed to have lost a legal challenge against UK authorities for not launching a criminal investigation into the
Foreign Policy
- Jan 30
10 Conflicts to Watch in 2023
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is still reverberating around the world—and setting the stage for more large-scale violence to come JANUARY 1, 2023, 7:00 AM By Comfort Ero, the president and CEO of the International Crisis Group, and Richard Atwood, executive vice president of the International Crisis Group. Ukrainian soldiers fire toward Russian positions in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine on June 15, 2022. ARIS MESSINIS/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Will he, or won’t he? This ti
