Peruvian reporter who challenged political elite faces smear campaign
Gustavo Gorriti, who has long exposed corruption, is the target of a criminal investigation campaigners call ‘politically motivated’ For more than four decades, Gustavo Gorriti...
Category : Global development
Attacks on health workers in conflict zones at highest level ever – report
More than 2,500 attacks in 2023, including medics killed and clinics bombed, in war zones such as Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine Attacks on health workers,...
‘Bullet wounds are common’: crime rife in DRC’s rebel-besieged city of Goma
Robberies, shootings, extortion and rapes have surged since the Rwandan-backed M23 militia cut off the eastern Congolese capital In broad daylight on 16 April, three...
Nigerian activists condemn mass ‘forced marriages’ of 100 girls and young women
Petition launched to halt mass ceremony that organisers say is for 100 orphans whose parents were killed by gangs Human rights activists in Nigeria have...
Starlink internet shutdown in Sudan will punish millions, Elon Musk warned
With a widespread telecoms blackout already in place, emergency help and humanitarian aid at risk if satellite service withdrawn, say NGOs Nearly 100 humanitarian groups...
Outdated laws and customs stalling progress on women’s rights across Africa – study
Family law has not kept up with social shifts, with marital rape, child marriage and lack of property and custody rights persistent problems, research finds...
Global violence causing record numbers of internally displaced people
Conflicts in Gaza, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have led to a total of 68m IDPs across the world Conflict has forced...
Death, disease and despair as fighting closes in on besieged Sudanese city
Darfur is on the brink of another disaster as fighting intensifies around El Fasher, the last city in the region not controlled by the Rapid...
Chad’s military leader Itno declared president in results contested by rival
Prime minister, Masra, accuses officials of manipulating results that show he won 18.5% of vote to Itno’s 61% Chad’s military leader, Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno,...
Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur
As El Fasher stands on the ‘precipice of a massacre’, rights groups call for sanctions after new testimony describes atrocities carried out by RSF paramilitaries...
