. © UNOCHA/Viktoriia Andriievska 31 July 2025 I   Peace and Security At least 11 civilians were killed Unprecedented civilian toll This attack follows a wave of violence close and far from the frontline, including weekend assaults that killed at least 20 civilians and injured over 120, a prison attack on Monday  that killed 16 inmates, a hospital strike that killed three and the death of five civilians All efforts must be taken to protect civilians. They are not a target.”   © 2025 United Nations

More than 100 civilians have been killed in attacks by suspected armed rebels in central Mali, the government At least 132 civilians were killed and some of the perpetrators have been identified, it added. It said the civilians were “coldly killed by fighters of the Macina Katiba of Amadou Kouffa”, an organisation Mali and the central Sahel region have for months faced a string of civilian massacres blamed on armed Since the beginning of the year, several hundred civilians have died in attacks in central and northern

or above, though the actual death toll was sometimes  much higher . , which forbids soldiers to put any civilians at risk; Level One, which allows up to five civilian deaths or if their deaths had occurred over several days. Several  burned to death , including Shaaban al-Dalou, a 19-year-old university student, who was filmed Shaaban al-Dalou, 19, burned to death after Israel struck a hospital compound.Credit ...Al-Dalou family

By: AFP - Agence France Presse Two civilians were killed in Cameroon after being shot by soldiers, the International monitors and the United Nations say both sides have committed abuses, including crimes against civilians https://www.barrons.com/news/two-civilians-shot-by-soldiers-in-breakaway-cameroon-region-01663789806?

to remain highly volatile, with intensified airstrikes across multiple regions leading to dozens of civilian Between 15 and 17 January, airstrikes and clashes in the southeast reportedly resulted in nine deaths injured a further 25, while in the northwest, airstrikes last week reportedly claimed the lives of 19 civilians OCHA expressed grave concern for the safety of civilians, highlighting the heightened risks faced by parties to the conflict to comply with international humanitarian law and ensure the protection of civilians

Millions of Yemeni civilians are fearful that a new cycle of war and violence is imminent [File: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters] Fear, anxiety, confusion – these are the most common sentiments expressed by civilians will erupt, roads will be blocked, fuel will be expensive, the price of basic goods will jump, and civilian deaths will mount,” he said. “Yemeni civilians have been glad that the truce reduced violence.

Photo: REUTERS Attackers in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have killed at least 16 civilians The DRC’s Catholic Church says the ADF has massacred nearly 6,000 civilians since 2013, with the toll respected United States-based monitor of violence in the eastern DRC, blames the ADF for more than 1,200 deaths Under the move, senior civilian officials were replaced by army officers.

Mozambique’s government has said dozens of civilians were killed in an attack this week on the northern Human Rights Watch said the attackers indiscriminately shot civilians in their homes and on the streets “We understand that a lot of civilians are fleeing the insecurity and violence,” Laura Tomm-Bonde, of “Initial reports indicate that civilian population has been fleeing Palma in all directions, some all The worsening violence has left at least 2,600 people dead, half of them civilians, according to the

despite promises by the military to tackle the insurgency Source:AFP via GETTY IMAGES At least 130 civilians says the "massacre", following an operation led by Burkinabè special forces, resulted in widespread civilian deaths and displacement of ethnic Fulanis. on Monday, there were reports of more militant attacks over the weekend with dozens of military and civilian "Mass killings of civilians by government security forces, militias, and Islamist armed groups amount

Vergnes/AFP] The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) says six civilians Several civilians were also wounded in the attack, the spokesperson said.

The African Union should ramp up its engagement in Mali to help protect civilians from abuses by all The AU should ramp up its engagement in Mali to help protect civilians from abuses by all the warring withdrew in 2023 at the request of Mali’s military junta, increasing concerns about protecting civilians The hostilities have resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians and forcibly displaced 350,000 one of whom was armed, entered Belidanédji, a village in a JNIM-controlled area, and beat at least twenty

-backed Nigerian military has been killing civilians in airstrikes at an alarming pace, security analysts on its own soil has come with a cascade of more than a dozen accidents that have killed hundreds of civilians northeast to armed gangs locally known as bandits across the whole north who pilfer, kill or kidnap civilians The army quickly admitted responsibility, saying it had mistaken the crowds of civilians for a gathering of the New York edition with the headline: Repeated Errant Strikes By Nigerian Army Take Escalating Civilian