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  • There is new violence in Western Uganda. Here’s why

    skirmishes last week left eight suspected militia members dead when security forces cleareda suspected training their own: the Rwenzururu kingdom was regarded as a representation of the majority Bakonzo, rather than “Ethnic” land tensions are a translation of frustrations with the Ugandan government and its perceived Both mechanisms continue to add fuel to the fire, rather than dousing the tensions. military solution and short-term electoral calculations are likely to further fuel tensions rather than

  • Over 700,000 internally displaced in Haiti

    More than half of those displaced are children, the UN agency for migration says, calling for international displaced persons camp at the Lycee Marie Jeanne in Port-au-Prince, Haiti [File: Clarens Siffroy/AFP] More than More than 110,000 people have fled their homes in the last seven months due to gang violence , particularly year prompted the resignation of Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry, the creation of the country’s Transitional Last week, the UN human rights office said more than 3,600 people had been killed this year in “senseless

  • Kenyan police begin Haiti patrols, gangs still in control

    She never travels more than a mile from home. The Kenyans, better armed and equipped than Haitian police, have joined their hosts on street patrols Now, less than three weeks after the first officers arrived, frustration is growing. “We have more training than the gangs. We have the capacity to kick them out. 2004 to 2017 was marred by allegations of abuse and blamed for a cholera outbreak that killed more than

  • Abuse, Deaths at Koro Toro Prison, Chad

    detainees en route to and at Koro Toro prison following the October 2022 protests over the extension of the transition prisoners were unlawfully detained, mistreated, and denied basic supplies during the two to three days transit the Chadian capital, N’Djamena, and in several other towns, to protest the two years extension of the transitional The transition ended in May 2024 with the election of Gen. Mahamat Idriss Déby. Some detainees died in transit, presumably from delirium and hunger.

  • UNHCR:Missile Strikes Drive More Displacement in Ukraine

    Since January, more than 3,500 newly displaced people have transited through a centre in Pavlohrad towards central Ukraine; in total, more than 200,000 people have been evacuated or displaced from frontline Last to leave Last month, more than 4,200 evacuees arrived at a transit centre in the northeastern city “More than 1,000 people have been directly affected as their homes have been damaged or completely destroyed

  • Saudi Arabia executes dissident journalist Turki al-Jasser

    supporters and advocates said his execution, committed while world attention was on Israel’s attacks on Iran In the last two years, the Saudi authorities have executed far more people than ever before, and daily In 2024, Saudi Arabia executed more than 300 people: in May, it put to death its 100th prisoner so far Sa’ad al-Faqih , a Saudi dissident based in the UK, said Jasser’s execution was “graver” than Khashoggi

  • Myanmar Junta Continues Airstrikes Amid Earthquake

    continued to bomb parts of the war-torn country following the major earthquake there, which has killed more than This strike took place around 15:30 local time, less than three hours after the quake had struck. nearby Mandalay - Myanmar's second largest city - as well as the capital, Nay Pyi Taw, which is more than The junta says 1,644 people are known to have died and many more are believed to be trapped under rubble In one of the deadliest airstrikes, more than 170 people were killed , including many women and children

  • Improving Prospects for a Peaceful Transition in Sudan

    They should seek to improve prospects for a peaceful transition by creating incentives for Bashir to More broadly, those governments should seek to improve prospects for a peaceful transition; doing so Although protesters favour the wholesale fall of the government, many would welcome a transition that A negotiated transition, in which Bashir himself agreed to hand over power to a new government, potentially Such a transition would open up the possibility of further re-engagement with the West and international

  • BLOG: Survivors’ Grandchildren Teach Lessons of the Holocaust

    Today, we proudly count more than 2,000 members. To date, we’ve trained more than 150 descendants of survivors, who have visited over 100 classrooms and We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished, but when you consider there are more than one million students

  • UN Warns of ‘Psychological Terror’ in Ukraine Invasion

    We are supporting people with essential goods, including cash assistance, as they are on the move to transit Zaporizhzhia in southeast Ukraine, Toby Fricker from the UN Children’s Fund ( UNICEF ) said that more than “There was a more than 50 per cent increase in child casualties in 2024 compared to 2023 and what we “Of them, 800 women lost their lives and more than 3,700 women were injured last year in Ukraine. Rising toll The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission (HRMMU) has confirmed the killing of more than 12,654

  • Looking Backward Into The Future

    That is more deaths than from all wars combined. They are what structural anthropologists call a transformational structure – a system of transformations The Ten Stages of Genocide provides the outline of a transformational grammar of genocidal processes. Talking is a much better way to resolve conflicts than fighting.   Justice affirms that the rule of law is stronger than rule by force.

  • Could the Rwandan Genocide Have Been Prevented?

    Kuperman and other apologists for US non-intervention that US and other foreign troops could not have been transported The Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire, London: Transaction Publishers, p. xxi. 11 Des Forges, Alison Trial massacres are conducted, both as training for the genocidists, and to test whether there will be Security Council order UNAMIR to withdraw, rather than sending reinforcements to stop the genocide? The Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire, London: Transaction Publishers, p. xxi.10. 

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