Inside the battle for El Fasher: “Innocent lives are lost every day”
“Residents are now living in constant fear of death.” A journalist in El Fasher By Ahmed Gouja Local volunteers from the Shaqra Emergency Response Room prepare food...
How Burkina Faso’s military junta outlawed local peace talks with jihadists
“The refusal to negotiate has increased the suffering of the populations.” A Burkinabé journalist On the day that a new junta seized power in Burkina Faso...
Warring parties target local aid volunteers as fighting escalates in Sudan
‘The sounds of beatings and bombing were continuous.’ By Rawh Nasir A humanitarian volunteer detained for weeks without their family knowing their whereabouts; another shot in...
A wave of repression follows the revolt of Generation Z
Boniface Mwangi, a major person in the Gen Z movement, is kidnapped today, Sunday 27th of October. He is released day after the arrest...
Maybe the Nobel prize for peace should have gone to the soup kitchens in Sudan
The long rainy season is over in Sudan and the war and aid are resuming. The dried-up dirt roads are making large-scale warfare possible...
Peacekeeper sex abuse rife in Central African Republic as survivors stay silent
‘Victims are very afraid to talk about what they have experienced and don't know who to talk to.’ By Barbara Debout The memorandum of understanding between...
By Fidèle Kitsa When an M23 rebel offensive earlier this year shut down Ismaël Matungulu’s radio station in the town of Saké in eastern Democratic...
UN soldiers planted their seeds in Congo but refuse to accept the consequences
By Claude Sengenya After Denise gave birth to a peacekeeper-fathered child in 2016, in the Beni region of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, she...
In DR Congo’s Beni region, departing peacekeepers leave a trail of abuse and anger
‘They have abused our trust. We are ready for them to leave.’ By Claude Sengenya The ADF formed in DRC in 1995 after members fled military...
