This article is published in association with United Nations. Escalating gang violence in Haiti has displaced a record 1.3 million people, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Friday. Between 1 January and 30 May, at least 2,680 people – including 54 children – were killed, 957 injured, 316 kidnapped for ransom, and many more […]World News in Brief: Rights abuses in Haiti, Sudan war sees exodus to Chad, food trade optimism
June 16, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. Escalating gang violence in Haiti has displaced a record 1.3 million people, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Friday. Between 1 January and 30 May, at least 2,680 people – including 54 children – were killed, 957 injured, 316 kidnapped for ransom, and many more […]Sudan: Rise in people fleeing to Chad as violence surges
June 4, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is published in association with United Nations. The number of Sudanese refugees in Chad has more than tripled in just over two years amid the ongoing war in their homeland, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said in an alert on Tuesday. Overall, some 1.2 million Sudanese have found shelter in eastern Chad, mostly after […]EU announces €282.5 million in humanitarian aid for Chad and Sudan crisis
April 11, 2025 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The Commission has announced today €282.5 million in EU humanitarian aid to address the needs of the most vulnerable people in Chad, Sudan and neighbouring countries. Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management, Hadja Lahbib is today in Chad, where she is visiting several […]Chad: EU allocates additional €10 million in humanitarian aid and launches new air operations to face the Sudan crisis
July 24, 2023 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the European Commission. The European Union has allocated additional €10 million in humanitarian aid to Chad, to help the country cope with the needs of the large number of people fleeing from the conflict in neighbouring Sudan. This new funding comes on top of the €7 million […]Fragile countries risk being ‘stuck in a cycle of conflict and climate disaster,’ Security Council told
July 12, 2018 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the United Nations. Climate change – and the shortages of water and food that come from it – is becoming increasingly linked to conflict, a senior United Nations official told the Security Council on Wednesday, warning that countries most vulnerable to drought and crop failure are also […]Girls groomed for suicide missions fight back against the extremists of Lake Chad
July 9, 2018 by Leave a Comment
This article is brought to you in association with the United Nations. Halima Yakoy Adam won’t forget 22nd December in 2015, the day she was supposed to carry out a suicide bomb attack in the Lac Region town of Bol, 200 km north of N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, in Central Africa. “It was market day […]EU and African leaders to jointly tackle the migration crisis across the Mediterranean
September 6, 2017 by 1 Comment
It was last week when the leaders of Italy, France, Germany and Spain met in Paris with the African leaders of Chad, Niger and Libya to discuss on how to manage the influx of migrants through Libya and across the Mediterranean. Emmanuel Macron, the French president, hosted the summit and mentioned that refugee crisis is […]The impossible end of the war in Syria
September 15, 2016 by Leave a Comment
The United States and the Russian governments without the slightest remorse announced that it was with their guns the Syrians have been killing each other for the last six years. This is the translation in plain English of last weekend’s news, which is that Washington and Moscow agreed on a truce in Syria, after very […]
