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
Genocide Watch
Oct 19
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
Human Rights Watch
Oct 18
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 16
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
Reuters
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
Caio Ruvenal l El Pais
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
UN News
Oct 15
Canada report: US intelligence role in resettling Nazis after WWII
By ALEX CARSON 11 OCTOBER, 2026 In early September, the Federal Court sided with B'nai Brith, ordering the government to remove almost all redactions from the 618-page report pursuant to the Access to Information Act. Corporal Urban Mayo from Ontario, Canada, watches the warning under the double swastikas on the border of German in the Canadian sector of the Western Front a few months before the end of World War II, February 14, 1945. (photo credit: PLANET NEWS LTD/AFP via Ge
The Jerusalem Post
Oct 15
EU Expands Migration Cooperation With Eastern Libya
Reporting by Amina Ismail, Editing by Charlotte Van Campenhout and Alex Richardson October 13, 2026 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen attends a press conference, during her visit to Skopje, North Macedonia, October 2, 2026. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski Purchase Licensing Rights BRUSSELS, Oct 13 (Reuters) - The European Union has signed an additional €25 million ($29 million) in funding to expand migration cooperation into eastern Libya, according to a letter fr
Reuters
Oct 15
Told To Farm, Left To Struggle
By Eric Chiputula October 14, 2026 It is a bitter contradiction: rural farmers are encouraged to embrace irrigation farming to improve food production and household nutrition, yet some are struggling to access even the basic equipment that could make their efforts easier. In Salima District, members of Kasupe Care Group have taken the call to heart. They have organised themselves, planted different crops, learned to make their own manure and continued working together for yea
Malawi24
Oct 14
