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...
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Soaring number of migrants trapped in Yemen face abuse and starvation, say NGOs
Urgent funding needed to help people return home as humanitarian crisis reaches critical levels, according to migration organisation The number of African migrants stranded in...
UK officials under fire for congratulating ‘repressive’ new chief of Uganda’s army
Activists call move ‘absurd’, as Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, son of President Museveni, is accused of torture and abusing critics Senior British government officials have congratulated...
Flooding in Brazil: then and now – in pictures
Devastating floods in Rio Grande do Sul state have about left 90 dead with survivors seeking food and shelter Brazil flooding death toll rises to...
Drake’s security guard ‘seriously injured’ in shooting at Toronto mansion
Guard was shot inside Drake’s home and had serious but non-life-threatening injuries, while the assailant fled in a vehicle A security guard at the mansion...
Brazil flooding death toll rises to 90 as more than 155,000 people displaced
At least 361 injured and 131 missing in southern part of country from what governor called his state’s ‘biggest climate catastrophe’ The death toll from...
‘Magical moment’ as fire-ravaged Brazil museum receives big fossil donation
Collection of more than 1,000 fossils including rare dinosaurs given to National Museum in Rio six years after devastating blaze Nearly six years after it...
Panama elects former security minister José Raúl Mulino as next president
Mulino, who won 34.3% of vote, pledges to welcome business and investment without forgetting ‘those who are hungry’ José Raúl Mulino, a former security minister,...
‘A colonial mindset’: why global aid agencies need to get out of the way
With the world’s humanitarian system in crisis, many NGOs now recognise that local charities can deliver much more at far less cost Before civil war...
Accused Canadian serial murderer admits killing four Indigenous women
Jeremy Skibicki, charged with four counts of first-degree murder, is believed to have left bodies of at least two victims in a landfill An accused...
