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14 hours ago

Former IS child 'fighters' were war victims, say French lawyers

No child chooses to be enlisted, and France is displaying the worst kind of indignity in this matter, while also violating the conventions to which it is a signatory.
France news
#sudan
fromJezebel
1 week ago
World news

Sexual Violence Has Become the 'Defining Feature' of the World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis

Healthcare
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

WHO says attack on Sudan hospital killed 64, including 13 children

The attack on Al Deain Teaching Hospital in Sudan killed at least 64 people and rendered the facility non-functional, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

RSF attack on Sudan's South Kordofan kills at least 14, including children

Sudanese paramilitaries attacked Dilling, killing at least 14, with ongoing violence leading to a severe humanitarian crisis affecting millions.
Social justice
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 days ago

Humanitarian situation in Sudan at catastrophic levels', says NGO

People with disabilities face severe challenges amid the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, exacerbated by ongoing violence and lack of access to aid.
World news
fromThe Washington Post
1 week ago

Sudanese rebels used rape as a weapon, aid group says

Thousands of women and girls in Sudan have sought treatment for sexual violence amid the ongoing civil war, indicating a deliberate pattern of abuse.
World news
fromJezebel
1 week ago

Sexual Violence Has Become the 'Defining Feature' of the World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis

Sudan's civil war has led to over 40,000 deaths and widespread sexual violence, becoming a defining feature of the humanitarian crisis.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

RSF attack on Sudan's South Kordofan kills at least 14, including children

Sudanese paramilitaries attacked Dilling, killing at least 14, with ongoing violence leading to a severe humanitarian crisis affecting millions.
Law
fromwww.theguardian.com
21 hours ago

Sexual abuse claims have dragged the international criminal court into crisis but what happens now?

The ICC's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, faces sexual abuse allegations amid geopolitical tensions, complicating his position and the court's integrity.
NYC parents
fromTruthout
4 days ago

Top Palestinian Children's Rights Group Shutters After Being Targeted By Israel

Defense for Children International-Palestine ceased operations due to Israel's attacks and restrictions on human rights organizations, impacting advocacy for Palestinian children's rights.
Washington DC
fromwww.dw.com
5 days ago

DRC joins US list of third-country deportation destinations

The DRC has agreed to accept US migrant deportees under a temporary deal, raising concerns over human rights and government conditions.
fromBoston.com
6 days ago

Congo to receive third-country deportees from the US under new deal

The Congolese Ministry of Communications stated that the deportees will start arriving in Congo this month, although no specific date or number of deportees was provided.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Former Australian soldier Ben Roberts-Smith arrested over alleged war crimes in Afghanistan

Ben Roberts-Smith, Australia's most decorated soldier, was arrested for alleged war crimes including murder during his service in Afghanistan.
Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Don't look at who voted to call the slave trade the gravest crime', look at who didn't | Kenneth Mohammed

The Ghana-led UN resolution on slavery highlights global disparities in acknowledging historical injustices, with significant opposition from Western nations.
Washington DC
fromwww.aljazeera.com
6 days ago

DR Congo to receive third-country' deportees from the US under new deal

The DRC will begin receiving deportees from the US this month under a temporary arrangement funded by the US government.
NYC parents
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Death, displacement and military duties: children plunged into crisis by Middle East war

The war in the Middle East has severely impacted millions of children, causing deaths, injuries, and mass displacements across the region.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

At least 43 people killed in ADF attack in northeast DR Congo, army says

At least 43 compatriots were killed and 44 houses torched during the previous day's attack in Bafwakoa, located in Mambasa territory, in the province of Ituri.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

Nearly 1,200 children killed or injured in Yemen despite truce: NGO

Nearly half of child casualties in Yemen are due to landmines and explosive remnants of war, despite a ceasefire reducing overall hostilities.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 week ago

Burkina Faso military, allies committing horrific' civilian abuses: HRW

Burkina Faso's military and armed groups are committing war crimes, including ethnic cleansing, resulting in over 1,800 civilian deaths since 2023.
#sudan-conflict
Russo-Ukrainian War
fromwww.dw.com
3 weeks ago

Civil war in Sudan is a never-ending humanitarian crisis

Drone strikes in Sudan have intensified, killing civilians across multiple regions with both warring parties continuing to receive weapons supplies despite the ongoing conflict.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
4 weeks ago

Drone attack on market in Sudan kills 11, as air war civilian toll mounts

Drone strikes in Sudan's ongoing conflict have killed over 200 civilians in populated areas including markets, schools, and hospitals within days, with both armed forces and paramilitary groups deploying increasingly powerful aerial weapons.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

At least 17 killed after drone strikes school in Sudan

A drone strike blamed on Sudan's Rapid Support Forces killed at least 17 people, mostly schoolgirls, at a secondary school and health care centre in Shukeiri village.
#war-crimes
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fromThe Washington Post
1 month ago

Aid worker killed in drone strike on building used by Congo relief staff

A drone strike in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo killed a French UNICEF aid worker and two others in a residential area housing international relief staff.
Social justice
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

Israel holding more than half of Palestinian child detainees without charge

Over half of Palestinian children in Israeli prisons are held without charge or trial, reaching record levels since 2008 monitoring began.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

It helps us survive': Poverty forces children into mine work in DR Congo

Seventy children died in a landslide at the Rubaya mine, a site for coltan extraction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Russo-Ukrainian War
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Our children were sold off': The South Africans sent to fight Russia's war

African men, including South Africans, were deceived into traveling to Russia for security training but were instead conscripted into paramilitary forces and sent to fight in Ukraine, with African soldiers reporting worse treatment than others on the front lines.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Hundreds return from Burundi to DRC as border shut by M23 fighting reopens

When I heard that fighting was approaching Uvira, we decided it would be best to leave for our own safety. It was to spare his family from the shadow of death following the violence and killings that had already taken place in Luvungi, Luberizi, Kamanyola and Sange—surrounding areas where M23 and the army were squaring off.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Protecting children is a priority now is the time to prove it

A billion children suffer violence yearly; proven prevention strategies exist but urgent political action and scaled investments are required to meet 2030 targets.
California
fromKqed
2 months ago

A Generation Orphaned by War: Ukrainian Children Grow Up Amid Loss and Recovery | KQED

Children in Ukraine face nightly fear, trauma, displacement, and orphanhood while receiving care and programming from orphanages and community organizations to cope.
#international-humanitarian-law
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fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

'I wish I had died,' says migrant after weeks of rape

Migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Libya face systematic, widespread abuses including torture, rape, arbitrary detention, forced labor, sexual violence and slavery.
World politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Militarising the Sahel will not defeat terrorism

Militarised escalation, including US strikes and rival regional forces, is accelerating Sahel militarisation and increasing the risk of interstate armed conflict in West Africa.
#south-sudan
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fromThe Walrus
1 month ago

The Most Accurately Predicted Genocide in History | The Walrus

Sudan's genocide was extensively documented through satellite imagery and survivor testimony, yet the international community failed to intervene despite clear evidence of mass atrocities.
World news
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Scores of civilians killed in attacks in South Sudan

At least 169 people, including 90 civilians and 79 soldiers, were killed in attacks on South Sudan villages, with unidentified armed men targeting Abiemnom County in the Ruweng Administrative Area.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Mass graves with 171 bodies found in eastern DR Congo: Report

Authorities discovered two mass graves containing at least 171 bodies in Uvira, eastern DRC, allegedly killed by M23 rebels who suspected victims of military affiliation.
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

How Africans are being drawn into Russia's war in Ukraine

South Africa's Foreign Minister, Ronald Lamola, met with the families of 11 South African men recently repatriated after being lured into the conflict. The ministry said it was deeply concerned by the "suspicious circumstances" and predatory recruitment tactics used. Separately, Lamola said two South Africans had died fighting for Russia.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

You take what you can and run': families describe harrowing journey to escape fighting in DRC

Mass displacement and relentless shelling forced thousands of Congolese in South Kivu to flee, carrying possessions and losing livestock during a two-day, 21-mile trek.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Why The Gambia wants Myanmar punished for Rohingya genocide

The Gambia's landmark case, accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its mostly Muslim Rohingya minority, began in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) this week. The Gambia's attorney general and justice minister, Dawda A Jallow, told ICJ judges on Monday that the Rohingya were targeted for destruction by Myanmar's government, as the case's final hearing opened nearly a decade after the country's military launched an offensive that forced some 750,000 Rohingya from their homes, mostly into neighbouring Bangladesh.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

UN mission finds RSF destruction in el-Fasher bears hallmarks of genocide'

RSF carried out a coordinated campaign of destruction, including rape and torture, targeting non‑Arab communities in and around el‑Fasher, exhibiting characteristics of genocide.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Sudan's war displaced crisis peaks as millions eye return to ruined homes

Millions are internally displaced in Sudan and globally, yet some civilians are returning to Khartoum despite devastation and fragile stability.
World news
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

A rare chronicle of war, survival and devastation in Darfur in pictures

Powerful photographic access exposes Darfur's brutal, ongoing civil war, showing drone attacks and mass civilian suffering amid the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophe, though some hope remains.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Three aid workers killed, 4 wounded in RSF drone attack in Sudan's Kordofan

At least three aid workers have been killed and four others wounded in a drone attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on an aid convoy in Sudan's South Kordofan state, according to the Sudan Doctors Network, in the latest carnage against civilians caught up in the nation's brutal civil war. The convoy of trucks carrying food and humanitarian supplies was targeted by the RSF, and its ally, the Sudan People's
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

RSF siege of El Fasher in Sudan has hallmarks of genocide', UN mission finds

The Rapid Support Forces carried out a coordinated, leadership-endorsed campaign in El Fasher amounting to genocidal actions against Zaghawa and Fur communities.
World news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

Sudan's people endure horror and hell' in war, says UN rights chief

Sudan's war has inflicted extreme suffering, displacement, acute food insecurity, increasing militarisation with foreign-supplied weapons, and allegations of war crimes requiring accountability.
World news
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

DRC: Many killed in coltan mine disaster in east rebels

Landslides at coltan mines in North Kivu's Rubaya killed at least 200, halted artisanal mining, and threaten a key global tantalum supply.
World news
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Goma under rebel control: Life in the shadow of violence

Goma was captured by M23 in January 2025, leaving widespread trauma, loss, economic hardship, and ongoing rebel control in parts of North Kivu.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

The cold, hungry reality of displacement in war-torn Sudan's Tawila

Montaha Omer Mustafa, 18, was among many people who managed to get out of el-Fasher before the city's seizure by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, but only after paying for passage and going days on foot with little water, moving through villages and scrubland. As fighting closed in on the last big city held by the government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in North Darfur state, tens of thousands of residents fled westwards, abandoning homes, possessions, and even family members.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Sudan condemns RSF chief's visit to Uganda as minimising human values'

Sudan condemned Uganda's reception of RSF leader Mohamed Dagalo as an insult and violation of laws, amid allegations of RSF war crimes and mass displacement.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

UN, US condemn RSF drone strikes on aid deliveries in famine-hit Sudan

The Sudan Doctors Network calls the attack in North Kordofan a blatant violation of international humanitarian law'. Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have launched a series of drone attacks targeting humanitarian aid convoys and fuel trucks across North Kordofan, killing at least one person and wounding several others, officials and medical organisations said. The North Kordofan state government condemned Friday's strikes on a convoy linked to the World Food Programme (WFP), urging the international community and United Nations bodies to impose sanctions
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

Kenyan families demand return of loved ones recruited into Russian army

list of 3 itemsend of list Winnie Rose Wambui said she hoped to get information about her brother, Samuel Maina, who went to Russia believing he had a job as a security guard at a mall. She last heard from him in October when he sent a distress voice note from a forest, she told news agency AFP. Parliament Majority Leader Kimani Ichung'wah presented the intelligence report to the Parliament of Kenya on Wednesday,
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

My leg went to heaven before me': Israeli war extinguishes Gaza childhoods

It was impossible to pay 6000 shekels for a vehicle to get us to the south, so we had decided to stay in the north, recalled Yasmin, adding that the family had been displaced more than 15 times during the Israeli genocidal war that began in October 2023. The drinking water supply became very rare in the area, so the children of the camp decided to get up just after dawn to be able to get in line for a gallon of water.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

NGOs sound the alarm as families flee camp holding suspected IS fighters

Most foreign families of suspected Islamic State fighters have left al-Hawl camp after Syrian government control, creating security and humanitarian uncertainty about their locations.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

As Sudanese city returns to life after two-year siege, drone threat lingers

Life is cautiously returning to the streets of Dilling, the second largest city in South Kordofan state, after the Sudanese army broke a suffocating siege that had isolated the area for more than two years. For months, the city had been encircled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), cutting off vital supply lines and trapping civilians in a severe humanitarian crisis.
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fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Sudan: UN warns famine spreading in North Darfur

"famine thresholds for acute malnutrition have now been surpassed"
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