El Salvador court frees Army officer behind Jesuit massacre
San Salvador Reuters A Salvadoran court released a retired high-ranking Army officer convicted of ordering the massacre of six Roman Catholic priests belonging to the Jesuit order during the brutal peak of the country’s civil war decades ago, his lawyer said on Monday. The ruling ordered the release of Colonel Guillermo Benavides because of his […]
Families in Sri Lanka yearn for answers on relatives who disappeared in civil war
Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka Reuters Arumuga Lakshmi, tormented by questions about the fate of her two children, missing for years, marched through a town in northern Sri Lanka with a group of women, many holding up photographs, black flags and burning torches. During a brutal 26-year civil war between the Sri Lankan government and a militant group, the […]
Postcards: Sri Lanka’s crisis pushes war-shattered Tamils to the brink
JEEVAN RAVINDRAN, of Reuters, reports on the ongoing struggle of Sri Lanka’s Tamils…
Explainer – With Yemen truce renewed, what are the prospects of peace?
Beirut, LebanonReuters Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to extend a UN-brokered truce for another two months in a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and spawned a major humanitarian crisis. How did the Yemen war begin, why does the truce matter and can it be turned into a broader peace process? People […]
Yemen’s warring parties agree only to renew two-month truce, UN says
Aden, Yemen Reuters Yemen’s warring sides agreed to renew a two-month truce expiring on Tuesday, the United Nations envoy said, despite international pressure for an extended and expanded deal that would build on the longest stretch of relative calm in over seven years. “This truce extension includes a commitment from the parties to intensify negotiations […]
Essay: Three reasons for hope that South Sudan can find peace after 11 years of strife
In an article first published on The Conversation, Dr J GENG AKECH, adjunct assistant professor at the University of Juba, outlines why he’s hopeful Sudan will consign its instability and conflict to the past…
Lick of paint for Yemen’s historic Sana’a as truce holds
Sana’a, YemenReuters Yemeni architect Zaid al-Kuhlani watched his workers dab white paint around stained glass windows from scaffolds, part of a large-scale restoration effort of UNESCO-listed historic Old Sana’a that has endured years of bombings during the war. Others used pulleys and ropes to lift the city’s distinctive brown mud to the top of its […]
Yemen’s conflict: Child soldiering continues despite Houthi promise
SAMY MAGDY, of Associated Press, reports on how, despite an agreement with the UN in April to halt the practice, the Houthis continue to recruit children into the military ranks to fight in the country’s ongoing civil war…
Yemenis face daily struggle to survive in besieged Taiz
Taiz, Yemen Reuters Yemeni cancer patient Mohsen al-Najdi has to drive more than three hours along narrow mountain roads to receive chemotherapy he can barely afford in Taiz, a city which has been largely cut off from the rest of Yemen during a seven-year war. Like other residents of the south-western governorate, Najdi misses easier […]
Yemen warring parties agree to extend truce for two months – UN
Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaReuters Yemen’s warring parties agreed to extend a UN-brokered truce for another two months under the same terms as the original deal that was due to expire on Thursday, the UN envoy to Yemen said. Delegations from the Saudi-backed government and the Iran-aligned Houthi movement are expected to return to the Jordanian capital […]