Yemenis cross Red Sea to Djibouti to flee Houthi war
Their overland routes to safety blocked off, several thousand people have boarded boats to escape gunfire, bombing and a dire humanitarian situation. By The Guardian October 20, 2026 Madinah Abdullah (in pink) and her family members at the Markazi humanitarian site in Obock, Djibouti, on 6 October. Photograph: Carlos Mureithi/The Guardian Abubaker Saeed was fishing in the Red Sea off Yemen’s coast last month when he noticed explosions in the distance. His mind turned immediat
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Amnesty: fewer death penalties in SE Asia; Singapore still executes
By Ellie Cho October 9, 2026 Credit: Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Amnesty International on Thursday said a growing number of Southeast Asian states are cutting back on the death penalty, creating new momentum towards abolition in a region long known for its strong support for capital punishment. The statement came ahead of the World Day Against the Death Penalty on October 10, alongside a new briefing examining progress towards abolition and continued resis
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Iranian Intelligence Department Arrests 39 Protesters
By IranWire October 19, 2026 According to the Tasnim News Agency, citing the General Directorate of Intelligence of Qazvin Province, 39 citizens have been arrested in connection with the January 2026 protests. The identities of those detained, their current locations, and the status of their legal cases remain unknown. In a report that included no names or identifying details, the Qazvin Intelligence Department claimed that the detainees operated across eight separate groups
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Special Report: Discrimination Against Roma in the Yugoslavia Successor States
By Senan Monks October 19, 2026 UN Refugee Camp in Mitrovica, Northern Kosovo, where hundreds of Roma people were affected by lead poisoning. Image by European Roma Rights Centre Roma are an ethnic group believed to have first arrived in the lands of the former Yugoslavia in the late medieval period. Roma communities in the Yugoslavia successor states are not homogeneous and come from a variety of cultural, religious, and linguistic traditions. However, they all face comparab
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Mali: Military Attacks On Civilians, Insurgent Abuses
Human Rights Watch October 19, 2026 Screenshot of a video posted online and analyzed by Human Rights Watch showing the destruction of a health center following an apparent Malian military drone strike in Talahandak village in the northern Kidal region, Mali, on July 29, 2026. © Private, Human Rights Watch. Malian armed forces and their allies have since July 2026 responded to mounting attacks by Islamist and separatist armed groups with abusive counterinsurgency operations
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OCHA Warns Baidoa Violence Deepens Humanitarian Crisis
By: Facility for Talo and Leadership October 11, 2026 Source: Facility for Talo and Leadership MOGADISHU — The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has expressed deep concern over the escalating conflict in Baidoa, warning that repeated violence is worsening an already severe humanitarian crisis for civilians in the South West State capital. In a statement issued on 9 October 2026, George Conway, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia
"Fosas Clandestinas": Method for predicting possible locations
Do clandestine graves (fosas clandestinas) follow any patterns? Researchers present a method for predicting possible locations By Jorge Luis Cortés (IBERO) October 14, 2026 Experts from the IBERO Human Rights Program and the University of Notre Dame presented a methodology in Geneva that uses open-source data and geospatial technologies to study the distribution of clandestine graves in Mexico and identify potential search areas. Credit: Andrea Horcasitas. Is it possible to p
Desinformémonos
Oct 17
Explainer: Will a new leader and a new name boost the rebellion in eastern Congo?
Reuters Clement Bonnerot October 16, 2026 Democratic Republic of Congo's former President Joseph Kabila talks as he holds discussion with the religious leaders to help find a "solution" to the crisis in the country's eastern regions, where Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have seized significant territory, in Goma, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 30, 2025. REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi Former president Kabila named head of Rwanda-backed group Move puts a high-profile Congoles
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Oct 16
Rising Hate in India
By Annie Gowen and Manas Sharma Oct. 31, 2018 Reports of hate-crime cases, many involving “cow vigilantes,” have spiked since Narendra Modi’s party came to power in 2014. Alimuddin Ansari, a van driver, knew the risks. Smuggling beef in India, where the slaughter of cows is illegal in some states, is dangerous work, and Ansari eventually attracted the notice of Hindu extremists in Jharkhand. One hot day in June 2017, they tracked him to a crowded market. When he arrived with
The Washington Post
Oct 16
Somalia national intelligence agency abducts journalist
Khadar Abdirahim Ibrahim. Photo/ Himilo Media/ SJS. by: Press Release | 12 October 2026 16:34 MOGADISHU, Somalia 12 October 2026 – The Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) calls for the immediate release of journalist Khadar Abdirahim Ibrahim of Himilo Media, who was abducted by the National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) on Sunday 11 October 2026 in Mogadishu, Somalia. His whereabouts have remained unknown since then, amid growing pressure on journalists reporting on
Horn Observer
Oct 16
How Bolivian medicine viewed Indigenous people
Research into early 20th-century medical journals reveals how scientific racism shaped representations of the Andean population By: Caio Ruvenal Published: October 12, 2026 An Aymara Indigenous person photographed by French anthropologists in the early 20th century for an anthropological study. ARTHUR CHERVIN The coronavirus arrived in Bolivia amid uncertainty and panic that gave rise to racism. There are reports in which Indigenous people say they were denied medical care be
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Oct 16
Haiti sanctions renewed: Starving the gangs of bullets
By Daniel Dickinson October 14, 2026 © WFP/Sylvain Barral People who have fled their homes due to gang violence in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, rest in a community space in a safer neighbourhood. Haiti is living through one of the world’s most acute security crises. Armed gangs control large parts of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and are pushing into rural areas, terrorising communities, killing people, committing rape and other sexual assaults, kidnapping for ransom a
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