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Yemen: UN sounds alarm as famine, fighting and aid worker detentions exacerbate crisis

UN Special Envoy Hans Grundberg told the Security Council on Monday that the turmoil in Yemen cannot be seen in…

11 months ago

Mounting civilian casualties in Sudan as fighting intensifies

It has now been 842 days since conflict between troops from the military government and their former allies-turned-rivals in the…

12 months ago

Bedouins tell BBC they could return to fighting Druze

Jon Donnison and Rebecca HartmannMiddle East correspondentReporting fromSouthern SyriaBBCBedouin fighters have pulled back from Suweida following a ceasefire agreementBedouin fighters…

1 year ago

Israel strikes Damascus as fighting between government forces and Druze rages

ReutersSyria's defence ministry headquarters in central Damascus was hit by Israeli strikesThe Israeli military struck the Syrian defence ministry and…

1 year ago

Scores killed in Sudan’s Kordofan region as fighting intensifies

Amid ongoing communication disruptions in the area, confirming the exact civilian death toll remains difficult, but reports indicate that at…

1 year ago

The doctor fighting for women’s health on Ukraine’s front line

Serhii BaksheievDr Baksheiev has carried out over 1,000 gynaecological examinations in his mobile ambulance since 2022In a rural village close…

1 year ago

Sudan: ‘Fighting shows no signs of abating,’ senior UN official tells Security Council

On Friday, the UN Security Council heard sobering briefings from Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, and Shayna Lewis,…

1 year ago

We quit our jobs, sold our home twice and spent 10 years fighting the NHS

James Melley and Alison HoltBBC News, Social AffairsFamily handoutAlice's family say she had a big personality and a passion for…

1 year ago

UN rights chief calls on South Sudan’s warring parties to end renewed fighting

At least 75 civilians have been killed in hostilities between the national army (SSPDF) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In…

1 year ago

Exhausted Sudanese flee into Chad as fighting escalates

Nearly 20,000 people – mainly traumatized women and children – have reached Chad in the past two weeks, according to…

1 year ago