For the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the horrors of war are an everyday reality. In the eastern provinces of the country, this trauma is particularly acute. On Sunday 27 November, the Mai-Mai Mazembe militia attacked a displaced persons’ camp in Luhanga. According to local officials […]
On Saturday 19 November, a police helicopter in Brazil’s capital of Rio de Janeiro crashed in the City of God favela. Four police officers were killed in the crash; however, the ensuing police raid into the favela caused another eleven casualties. The violence between drug gangs, militias, and police sparked […]
South Sudan, the world’s youngest nation, is now teetering on the verge of genocide. On Friday 12 November, Adama Dieng, the United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, warned that South Sudan is at a “strong risk of violence escalating along ethnic lines, with the potential for genocide.” […]
In Kaga Bandero, a town 350km north of the nation’s capital Bangui, violence is unending. Civilian massacres, destruction of houses, and targeted attacks against Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDP) camps are just some of the deadly indicators of a fragile peace teetering on widespread conflict. Since the democratic election of President […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that there are now 1,410 known cases of cholera in Yemen. On 6 October, Yemen’s Health Ministry announced the cholera outbreak. Caught between war and survival, the people of Yemen face an added threat from this latest development. The WHO has estimated […]
On 17 October, Iraqi forces, Kurdish Peshmerga, and Shia militants launched their offensive to recapture the city of Mosul, Iraq, which has been under Islamic State (IS) control since June 2014. War strategy and tactics aside, this offensive will have devastating consequences for the 1.5 million civilians caught in the […]
