‘Modern plunderers’: Lobito Corridor plans bring fear, hesitation in DRC | Mining News
Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo – From the Port of Lobito in Angola, along Africa’s Atlantic coast, runs a 1,300km (800-mile) stretch of railway…
Ecuador confirms charred bodies belong to four missing boys | Military News
A judge has ordered 16 military members to remain behind bars while a probe into the deaths continues.Ecuador’s attorney general has confirmed that charred remains…
Gaza’s 2024: A year of war and misery | Gaza News
Palestinians in Gaza are entering the new year as defenceless and beleaguered as the last. Israel’s war on the enclave continued into 2024, killing 23,842…
Israel’s war on Gaza: 12 months, 12 pictures | Gaza
Israel’s war on Gaza has left a trail of devastation with the lives of more than two million Palestinians severely disrupted. Long lines of people waiting…
US military releases long-held Guantanamo detainee to Tunisia | Human Rights News
Transfer of Ridah bin Saleh al-Yazidi from the US army prison in Cuba is the fourth in two weeks by the outgoing Biden administration.The Pentagon…
Fierce fighting in Khartoum endangers Sudanese civilians | Sudan war News
Beirut, Lebanon – On December 9, an army air attack hit a fuel station in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, killing at least 28 people and injuring…
2024: We Are The People
2024 was a strange transitional year replete with paradoxes and contradictions. It has been the year, in incredible unsettling global and societal ways, the impossible…
No privacy, constant struggles for women in Gaza’s crowded tent camps | Gaza
For Gaza’s women, the hardships of life in the territory’s sprawling tent camps are compounded by the daily humiliation of never having privacy. Women displaced…
‘Weaponisation of Starvation’: The Failing of International Humanitarian Law in Sudan’s War
“Never in modern history have so many people faced starvation and famine as in Sudan today,” experts selected by the United Nations Human Rights Council…
On Palestine: Modern-Day Colonialism That Sheds Light on the Universality of Moral Relativism
Early October 7, 2023, Hamas fighters seized villages along Israel’s southern border with Gaza. The strike—according to official Israeli numbers—killed at least 1,139 individuals and…
Chad votes in first parliamentary election in over a decade: What to know | Elections News
Chadians are voting in parliamentary, regional and municipal elections for the first time in more than a decade, continuing the former military-turned-civilian government’s push to…
The Heat of Violence: Climate Change and Gender-Based Abuse
According to the UN data, women constitute a staggering 80% of those displaced by climate change and face a 14-fold higher risk of death during…
How concerned are Israelis by what their government is doing in their name? | Israel-Palestine conflict News
Israeli soldiers have stormed, raided and burned down Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, forcing everyone inside to evacuate and detaining dozens of the medical…
Authorities find 12 bodies in clandestine graves in northern Mexico | Human Rights News
Skeletal remains discovered in Mexican border state of Chihuhua taken to lab for possible identification, officials say.Authorities in Mexico have uncovered 12 bodies in clandestine…
Sudan’s war came to represent the worst of humanity | African Union
In Sudan, 20 months of armed conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army (SAF) have killed at least 20,000 people…
Israeli forces kill at least 8 in occupied West Bank raids, drone strikes | Occupied West Bank News
Israeli troops and military aircraft have killed at least eight Palestinians, including two women and a teenager, in attacks on the Tulkarem and Nur Shams…
Armed men open fire on journalists during reopening of Haiti hospital | Crime News
Haitian authorities have struggled to address rise of powerful armed gangs, and accountability for violence is rare.Armed men have opened fire on a group of…
What’s blocking a ceasefire deal in Gaza? | Conflict
Former Israeli adviser Daniel Levy argues that dehumanisation of Palestinians by Israel blocks peace efforts in Gaza.Despite Western and Arab efforts at achieving a ceasefire…
A fight for holiday equality: How Black Santas shaped US civil rights | Civil Rights
But, as Moss would learn, the figure of Santa Claus was more than a pathway to visibility and acceptance. The holiday legend wielded vast economic…
Hong Kong police announce bounties on overseas pro-democracy activists | Human Rights News
Police in Chinese territory offer $130,000 rewards for information leading to the arrest of six campaigners.Hong Kong authorities have placed bounties on six pro-democracy activists…