Africa
A bomb attack in the heart of the Turkish capital Ankara – apparently targeting the country’s military – has killed nearly 30 people and injured more than 60. It’s thought to have been caused by ...
The United Nations reported today that Afghan hostilities in 2015 left more than 3,500 civilians dead, including an unprecedented number of children – one in four casualties over the past year was a child – ...
Militants have attacked a United Nations base in northern Mali, leaving at least three UN peacekeepers dead and injuring 30 others. Olivier Salgado, spokesman for the UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA), said shelling hit the ...
The worst drought to hit Ethiopia in 50 years is about to become a crisis according to the charity Save the Children. It is warning that emergency food aid for 10 million Ethiopians will run ...
A car bomb goes off at a busy vegetable market in central Damascus, killing at least eight people and injuring 20 others. The blast on Tuesday hit Masaken Barzeh, a middle-class northern district in the ...
According to a new United Nations food security and nutrition assessment, the situation in Somalia is alarming and could get worse, especially in parts of Puntland and Somaliland, which have been hard hit by drought ...
Driven for days to flee the war in Aleppo, thousands of Syrians, mostly women and children, are waiting in the cold to go to Turkey that for the moment keeps its border closed. The governor ...
The most senior United Nations officials are urging the world to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM) by 2030, calling it a “violent practice” that scars girls for life, endangering their health, depriving them of their ...
A UN panel examining the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has ruled that he should be allowed to walk free and compensated for his “deprivation of liberty.” The five independent rights experts, who make ...
Israeli forces have shot and killed three Palestinians in Jerusalem over an alleged attack on police officers, in the latest act of violence against Palestinian people. The shooting took place on Wednesday at the Damascus ...
