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On June 16, 2015, just 18 days after he took power as the president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari set the tone for the underwhelming performance he knew he

May 07, 2021 Indonesian soldiers stand guard during a protest in Timika, Papua province, Wednesday, August 21, 2019. Credit: AP Photo/Jimmy Rahadat Advertisement On April 29, the Coordinating Minister for Politics, Legal, and Security Affairs formally labelled Papua’s armed criminal organization (KKB), also known as the West Papua National Army-Free Papua Organization (TNPB-OPM), a terrorist organization. The decision comes after a series of attacks by TNPB-OPM in April resulted in the death of Brig. Gen. I Gusti Putu Danny, the head of the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) in Papua. While n...

UC Berkeley study finds increased pandemic-related attacks on healthcare Nada Lamie/Staff In a collaboration with Geneva-based nonprofit Insecurity Insight, researchers at the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center mapped and documented more than 1,100 threats and acts of violence against healthcare affiliates and facilities within the last year. The team developed an “Atlas of Attacks” using data collected from the Security in Numbers Database, Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset and the World Health Organization’s Surveillance System of Attacks on Healthcare. The atlas was used to map ...