Refugees/IDPs

Genocide in Nigeria 2025: U.S. options to prevent it

Funeral for victims of a Boko Haram jihadist massacre credit: Al Jazeera Genocide in Nigeria 2025 By Greg Stanton, Founding President, Genocide Watch First published in 2024, updated to 2025 The Islamist genocide in Nigeria is now fifteen years old. Since 2012, Genocide Watch has issued Genocide Warnings for Nigeria because of Boko Haram, a terrorist group bent on genocide. It has been the deadliest genocidal group in the world, with at least 27,000 murders. Boko Haram h

Genocide Watch

Dec 10, 2025

UN urges humanitarian corridor to help el-Fasher Civilians

IOM chief calls for ceasefire to allow aid groups to reach Sudanese civilians trapped in war-torn Darfur region. By Jillian Kestler-D'Amours An injured Sudanese woman who fled violence in el-Fasher receives treatment at a makeshift clinic in Tawila, North Darfur, November 3, 2025 [Mohamed Jamal/Reuters] The head of the United Nations’ migration agency has called for a ceasefire and a humanitarian corridor to help tens of thousands of civilians trapped in el-Fasher , the city

Al Jazeera

Nov 13, 2025

Eritrea Country Report: November 2025

By Grace Harris Members of Eritrea’s armed forces march past a reviewing stand where President Isaias Afewerki and numerous dignitaries and government officials were seated during the official 32nd Anniversary of Independence celebration at the Asmara Stadium on May 24, 2023, in Asmara, Eritrea. © 2024 Photo by J. Countess/Getty Images Eritrea, a former Ethiopian state annexed in 1962, gained independence in 1993 following decades of civil war. Just a few years later, tensi

Genocide Watch

Nov 10, 2025

Sudan's RSF Paramilitaries Agree on Humanitarian Ceasefire

By Barbara Plett Usher The paramilitary group, led by Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, has taken the city of el-Fasher after an 18-month siege. Credit- BBC Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has agreed to a proposal from the US for a humanitarian ceasefire, the group said on Thursday. Sudan's military-led government has not yet responded. The RSF issued the statement after seizing the city of el-Fasher in the western Darfur region. Their 18-month siege blocked humanita

BBC News

Nov 7, 2025

Genocide Again in Darfur

Families shot down, held at ransom as they flee Darfur’s killing fields The Washington Post November 1, 2025 by Katharine Houreld and Hafiz Haroun A woman rests in Tewila, in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region, on Oct. 28 after fleeing El Fashir in the wake of the city's fall to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. (AFP/Getty Images) Sudan’s RSF paramilitary and its allies have carried out mass ethnic killings and hostage taking in the captured city of El Fashir, survivo

Katharine Houreld and Hafiz Haroun | The Washington Post

Nov 1, 2025

Sudan's paramilitary killed hundreds at Darfur hospital

Sudanese who fled el-Fasher city, after Sudan's paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people in the western Darfur region, speak at their camp in Tawila, Sudan, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Muhnnad Adam) By Samy Magdy CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people at a hospital, including patients, after they seized the provincial capital of North Darfur over the weekend, according to the U.N., displaced residents and aid workers, who described har

AP News

Oct 29, 2025

Sudan Genocide Emergency: September 2025

By Omar Kausar and Grace Harris People displaced following Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacks on Zamzam displacement camp shelter in the town of Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan on April 15, 2025. Stringer/Reuters Since April 2023, the Republic of Sudan (Sudan) has been engulfed in one of the deadliest civil wars of the 21st century . The civil war is between two opposing factions of the Sudanese Military: the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the le

Genocide Watch

Oct 27, 2025

UN report on Israel’s genocidal gender-based violence

Responding to a report by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel published today concluding that Israel has systematically used sexual, reproductive and other gender-based violence against Palestinians since October 2023 and carried out “genocidal acts” against Palestinians in Gaza by destroying women’s healthcare and reproductive health facilities and blocking access to reproductive healthcare, Amnesty Inter

Amnesty International

Oct 26, 2025