Reports

KUTUM LOCALITY - Elements of the paramilitary Border Guards, backed by MiG fighter jets and Antonov aircrafts, on Sunday attacked the areas of Anka and Birdik in Kutum locality, North Darfur. Speaking to Radio Dabanga, multiple witnesses…

DELEIG / GIREIDA - Two school students were shot at the market of Deleig in Central Darfur on Sunday. On the same day, militiamen raided the Jukhana market, near Gireida town in South Darfur, killing a…

South Sudan stands on the brink of catastrophe with at least one in three people in the country facing severe food shortages (1), as the world’s newest nation marks its third anniversary this week (9 July). Christian…

Nyandong* holds her malnourished one-year-old girl, Sunday*; her other children mill round us, their small, thin limbs occasionally wrapping round her. She tells me what has happened to her family since brutal fighting engulfed parts of…

JUBA — South Sudan Interior Minister Aleu Ayieny Aleu said Monday that anyone who violates the curfew in the capital is a criminal and security officers are under orders to shoot them dead. "It is only witches who…

Can community policing deter terrorism in weak states where government security sectors are unable to cope with violent extremism? This is a question of mounting urgency in a number of countries beset by terrorist groups, including…

JUBA, South Sudan – It is the middle of the night in a crowded displacement camp in Juba, South Sudan, and 25-year-old Marsa Nyaluak is losing blood fast. She is in labour and has been bleeding…

Yemen Unlawfully Deported Andargachew Tsige, Concerns over Possible Mistreatment (London, July 7, 2014) – An exiled Ethiopian opposition leader unlawfully deported by Yemen back to Ethiopia is at risk of mistreatment including torture, Human Rights Watch said…

Finland is increasing its humanitarian assistance to South Sudan by 4 million euros. As a result of the crisis in South Sudan, 1.5 million people have had to leave their homes. Almost 400,000 of them have…

Medair has concluded its humanitarian activities in Zimbabwe after four-and-a-half years of delivering major improvements to the country’s water infrastructure. In 2008-09, Zimbabwe suffered one of Africa’s deadliest cholera outbreaks in 15 years, killing more than 4,000…