Death toll from Israeli strikes in Gaza passes 25,000, Gaza health officials say
Doha, Qatar/Gaza Reuters The toll of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since war broke out between Israel and Hamas in October has passed 25,000, Gaza health officials said, while Israeli attacks and street battles raged across the Hamas-run enclave on Sunday. Israeli forces and Hamas fighters clashed in several places, from […]
After battle with junta, Myanmar rebels take control of border point with India
Zokhawthar, IndiaReuters Two days after rebel forces in Myanmar’s Chin state overran the junta’s two military bases close to the border with India, they have taken control of a border crossing point between the two countries across the tiny hilly Indian state of Mizoram. People who fled Myanmar carry their belongings across a bridge that […]
Ukrainian families divided as some flee fierce fighting in east
Kostiantynivka, Ukraine Reuters Olha Skachkova and her son, 11-year-old Denys, climbed out of an armoured van which had just whisked them out of their home town of Toretsk, close to the front lines where Ukrainian and Russian forces are fighting fierce battles. With the war grinding towards its second anniversary, millions of Ukrainians have already […]
UN migration chief voices concern over Mediterranean deaths, pledges new solutions
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters The new head of the UN migration agency on Monday voiced concern that the deaths of migrants and refugees in the Mediterranean were being “normalised” and vowed to work with governments to provide options for economic migration to address the crisis. US former White House adviser Amy Pope started as head of […]
Number of displaced by Sudan war surpasses three million – IOM
Reuters The number of people uprooted by a conflict between military factions in Sudan that erupted nearly three months ago has surpassed three million, according to estimates from the International Organization for Migration. More than 2.4 million people have been displaced internally and more than 730,000 have crossed into neighbouring countries, data published late on […]
UN refugee chief calls for return to peacemaking to stem flows
Nairobi, KenyaReuters The world needs to rediscover its ability to bring peace to various trouble spots in order to curb the growing flow of refugees, the head of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday. There are 110 million displaced people around the world, up from 103 million last year and half that […]
Essay: What Ukraine dam breach means for the country’s counter-offensive and aid deployment
CHRISTOPHER MORRIS – in an article published on The Conversation – looks at the impact of the breaching of the Nova Kakhovka dam in eastern Ukraine…
Warring Sudanese factions fight on after failing to agree truce; 200,000 have fled Sudan, says UN
Khartoum, SudanReuters Air strikes and artillery pounded Khartoum on Friday after Sudan’s warring army and Rapid Support Forces paramilitary failed to agree to a ceasefire despite committing to protect civilians and allow humanitarian access. A so-called declaration of principles was signed in Saudi Arabia late on Thursday after nearly a week of talks between the […]
Rebel attacks deepen displacement crisis in Congo’s Ituri
Drodro, Democratic Republic of Congo Reuters One month since rebels closed in on Drodro village in eastern Congo, the once bustling wards of its hospital are empty and Doctor James Semire strolls the darkened corridors wondering when patients will dare to return. The community is one of many in Ituri province’s Djugu territory that has […]
Conflict in eastern Congo forces thousands of schools to close
Kihisi, Democratic Republic Of Congo Reuters Thomas Tumusifu Buregeya wishes he were studying for his final school exams. Instead, he scrapes a living doing odd jobs in a displaced people’s camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a wave of rebel violence upended his life yet again. Thomas Tumusifu Buregeya, 22, repairs his mother’s […]