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Human rights defenders in Unity State cannot celebrate a happy new year as they reflect on the sorrowful and unjust killing of four men through the implementation of jungle laws in the region. I urge the government to consider 2022-2023 as deadly years marked by human rights abuses, executions by firing squad, orchestrated disappearances of targeted groups, intimidation of human rights defenders, arrests of journalists, and the tragic killing of Gatluak Majiok along with three other men by a fir...

UNITED NATIONS, Dec 18 (IPS) - Funding humanitarian programs will continue into the new year, but the funding cuts of the previous year may impact the prioritization of the most immediate and most life-threatening needs.

Funding humanitarian programs will continue into the new year, but the funding cuts of the previous year may impact the prioritization of the most immediate and most life-threatening needs.The Off

Updates from across the African continent.

It is a global catastrophe of astounding proportions that millions of children are on the run today, forcibly displaced from their homes.

The world should not turn a blind eye on South Sudan where climate change, conflict and economic hardship are pushing millions of people further into food insecurity, the UN warned.Reena Ghelani, UN Famine Prevention and Response Coordinator, ...

DUBAI, Dec 09 (IPS) - It is a global catastrophe of astounding proportions that millions of children are on the run today, forcibly displaced from their homes. As conflict and climate change increasingly become the most pressing challenges facing the world now, the number of displaced children has doubled in the last decade alone, reaching a record high of 43.3 million children.

The number of displaced children due to climate change and conflict has doubled in the last decade alone, reaching a record high of 43.3 million children.

In Abyei, a land sandwiched between Sudan and South Sudan, Médecins Sans Frontières are working hard to bring life-saving treatment to desperate communities