Dozens of former soldiers, hired through private security companies, are fighting for the Rapid Support Forces against the regular army in one of the bloodiest current conflicts
Research estimates the conflict has claimed over 61,000 lives since April 2023, three times the UN figure. Chances of a ceasefire are increasingly slim
As a young boy, he was forced to flee his home in South Sudan before going on to compete in the first Refugee Olympic Team, and now uses his experiences to offer hope to others
A report concludes that, in 2022 and 2023, attacks against students and teachers increased by 20%, as did the military use of schools. The worst hit places were Palestine, Ukraine, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Myanmar
The Swiss-Croatian diplomat warns against ‘dehumanizing’ the other side in times of war, and the risks of artificial intelligence, such as autonomous weapon systems
If all refugees, internally displaced persons, asylum seekers, and other people in need of international protection were brought together in one country, they would form the 12th largest in the world, with a population similar to that of Japan
There are up to 56 active conflicts across the globe, with an increasingly international component: 92 countries are involved in wars outside their borders
The war in the African country has acquired its own dimension in the western region, where local testimonies and experts warn that violence against the civilian population could constitute genocide
Around 25 million people, half the nation’s population, are suffering one of the world’s direst humanitarian crises
The civil war that has been devastating the African country for almost a year has produced the largest number of internally displaced individuals in the world and a famine emergency affecting five million people. It also looms as a regional conflict
Thirteen years of war has left 90% of Syria’s population below the poverty line. The U.N. World Food Program ended its main assistance program in January
About 40% of the country is experiencing severe hunger, with seven million people at risk of starvation
Special forces sent by Kyiv are conducting operations in the African country against rebel militias backed by Wagner mercenaries
U.N. warns that Europe may have to deal with a rise in the numbers of Sudanese refugees if a cease-fire agreement isn’t signed soon between Sudan’s warring sides
A Doctors Without Borders report warns of a huge shortfall in meeting the global need caused by armed conflict and climate change
Gaza, Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Pakistan… The list of conflicts and crises has never been longer or more dire. In the Gaza Strip, at least 5,000 children have been killed in just two months, with thousands more left orphaned and over 3,500 women and children still missing under the rubble, according to the U.N.
The Ministry of Health confirms a positive case in the Renk Transit Center, located in the north of the country, where thousands of displaced people are living shoulder to shoulder
Sudanese higher education students – who have been forced to flee their homes due to violence – now live in poor conditions as displaced people, without any certainty about their education and their future
Dominique Hyde, the U.N. Refugee Agency’s director of foreign relations, says the humanitarian crisis resulting from the war in Sudan is the worst she’s seen in three decades
The fighting that broke out in April, added to previous violence, especially in the Darfur region, has forced over seven million people to flee their homes
Monday’s talks between Burhan and Isaias will focus on bilateral relations and the conflict in Sudan
Global food security is already under threat since Russia halted an agreement allowing Ukraine to export wheat and the El Nino weather phenomenon hampers rice production
The head of the Russian paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been meeting with representatives from Mali, the Central African Republic and Niger. The United States, meanwhile, is attempting to block the Wagner Group from profiting from African mines
The report says that some of the sexual assault victims were held in conditions “amounting sexual slavery,” mostly in the capital, Khartoum, and the western region of Darfur
What’s happened — and continues to happen — in Haiti, Colombia and Mexico should awaken our collective conscience about the use of women’s and girls’ bodies as a weapon of war
The U.N. Human Rights Office said on Thursday that the bodies of the 87 people were dumped in a grave near the Darfur city of Geinin
The assault was one of the deadliest in urban areas in the capital and elsewhere in Sudan since fighting began
