On Tuesday, June 22nd, an Ethiopian airstrike hit a market in the village of Togoga, killing at least 64 people and injuring at least 180. According to local witnesses, the bomb hit the market at roughly 1 P.M. local time. Ethiopian military officials claim they were targeting Tigray military personnel,
The horrific abduction of 94 children and eight staff members from a school in the Nigerian state of Kebbi on June 17th has reportedly cost the lives of three Nigerian children. The school principal broke the news on June 20th that the lucrative ransom business has cost the lives of
UN officials warn that the Tigray crisis is reaching new extremes, as the region is labelled a stage five emergency, putting nearly 350,000 people at immediate risk of famine. Since the onset of the Tigray War in November 2020 between the central government and Tigray’s regional forces, the IPC reports
Thousands of protesters gather throughout Brazil’s major cities against far-right President Jair Bolsonaro’s catastrophic misdirected response to the COVID-19 pandemic. From the onset of the global pandemic, President Bolsonaro has repeatedly dismissed the severity of COVID-19. As early as March 2020, President Bolsonaro labelled the virus as “a little flu”
A group of U.S. Senators have called on President Joe Biden to take “immediate and decisive action” in ending the Saudi Arabian blockade of essential items such as food, medicine, and fuel meant to aid Yemen. The conflict has been unrelenting since 2014, leading the World Food Programme to label
The UN Human Rights Office has condemned the police for killing 28 people in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. The police operation started in the early morning, Thursday, May 6, in the Jacarezinho neighbourhood. Police officials claim the operation was aimed at a suspected drug trafficking case. The
Unrest in Chad reaches new heights as live ammunition was fired into a crowd of demonstrators on Tuesday, April 26th, killing six people. Chad has faced continuous unrest following the death of President Idriss Déby. Protestors have objected to the new de facto President Mahamat Déby Into, the son of
The American withdrawal of troops in Afghanistan has left essential questions of peace in Afghanistan in the air. Without human rights as the primary priority when exiting, there is a risk of violence against the most vulnerable members of society and a potential collapse of the government. The violence has
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) calls for Myanmar’s top general and coup d’état leader, Min Aung Hlaing, to end the killings of Myanmar protesters in Special Summit. Since the military coup d’état on February 1, 2021, of the democratically elected party ‘National League for Democracy,’ protesters have been
Jimmy Lai, a billionaire media tycoon who played a vital part in the 2019 pro-democracy protests, was sentenced to 14 months in prison on charges of unauthorized assembly. In August 2020, 200 police officers raided the newsroom of Apple Daily, the tabloid newspaper founded by Mr. Lai, a highly critical
