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- Famine declared in South Sudan, with 100,000 people facing starvation
Parts of war-ravaged South Sudan are officially in famine, a government official declared on Feb. 20. The U.N. officials said that war had disrupted agriculture, the main occupation in many parts of the U.N. officials have complained that both government and opposition forces have blocked humanitarian convoys The officials said the hunger crisis is the worst since fighting started three years ago. In December, U.N. officials warned that “ethnic cleansing” was taking place and that an “all-out ethnic
- Inside the “perfect storm” of famine
Lindborg, president of the US Institute of Peace, pointed out in testimony last week before the US Senate Foreign Famine hasn’t officially been declared (yet) in Yemen, but, with more hungry people than any of the other Rather than settling in poorly serviced official camps, more than 80 percent of these victims of the
- President Trump Can Defeat ISIS – Here’s How
That memorandum follows a clear focus on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in the White House’s foreign
- Vigilante Groups Fighting Boko Haram
intelligence officers, international military advisers and senior politicians. Security officers, Islamic clerics critical of Boko Haram and civilians otherwise associated with the JTF officers were also involved in the selection of CJTF leaders, a chairman and a secretary for each Where there was scepticism, military officers visited communities to insist this was the government’s vigilantes, in order to limit weapon proliferation in general and avoid creating what a Cameroonian officer
- Myanmar: UN expert lists catalogue of concerns as human rights slide in worsening conflict
place from 10-21 July at the invitation of the Government, the Special Rapporteur met a broad range of officials
- The PKK’s Fateful Choice in Northern Syria
in Qandil, and may have enjoyed some decision-making autonomy in recruitment, establishment of local offices State Department officials assert that the U.S. can provide weapons only through the SDF. A U.S. official said: There is a problem of expectations [with the YPG]. Two, now senior officials in Syria, voiced opposing positions. While U.S. military officers on the ground in Syria are clearly enamoured of the YPG’s fighting spirit
- UN: 17 new mass graves found in central DRC
Zeid said in a statement published by his office on Wednesday that he had reports DRC soldiers had dug
- How to Mitigate the Risks of Iraqi Kurdistan's Referendum
Iraqi Kurdistan’s legal status will not change, and Kurdish officials probably will retain their posts
- RUSSIA: Wave of violence against Jehovah’s Witnesses
ceased its usual activity: bank accounts are frozen, and work is not being conducted any longer in the offices
- Human Rights Council discusses human rights situation in Myanmar
NewsID=22802&LangID=E (c) 2018 United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner
- Myanmar cardinal says there is no “ethnic cleansing” of Rohingya minority
under a nationality law passed by the government’s military regime in 1982, in which the Rohingyas are officially
- Cambodian court upholds life terms for 2 Khmer Rouge leaders
also on trial in a second case where they are facing charges of genocide against ethnic minorities and foreigners Their two co-defendents, Ieng Sary, the third-ranking Khmer Rouge leader and its foreign minister, and









