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UN rapporteur calls for move as food deliveries are attacked and starvation becomes a weapon of war in Gaza and SudanUN peacekeepers should be routinely deployed to protect aid convoys from attack in places such as Gaza and Sudan, a senior United Natio…
International development council describes consequences as ‘dire’ as 120 Australian projects affected by loss of more than $400mGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Trump administration’s gutting of foreign aid has seen a $40…
Hundreds of woman in one cane producing district were agreeing to the surgery, say activists, in order to keep working long, physically punishing hoursWomen working in sugar cane fields are still being “pushed” to undergo surgery to remove their womb a…
BBC says ‘sharp and deeply troubling escalation’ this year of Iran targeting families of UK-based BBC Persian journalistsBBC staff in London say their families are being “targeted and punished” by the Iranian regime as it intensifies a campaign of inti…
Trucks carrying food for 2m people in famine-threatened El Fasher targeted in RSF-controlled Al Koma, western SudanA UN aid convoy carrying critical food supplies to a famine-threatened city in western Sudan has been targeted in an attack that killed f…
Médecins Sans Frontières report sparks calls for Sudan’s warring parties to be held to account for rapes and attacks As Sudan’s Darfur region has been overrun by militias, women are facing the constant threat of sexual violence, Médecins Sans Frontière…
Mission to deliver help is ‘one of most obstructed aid operations in recent history’, humanitarian agency saysGaza is “the hungriest place on Earth”, according to the UN, which has warned that the Palestinian territory’s entire population is at risk of…
Mauritanian economist who led Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa will succeed Akinwunmi AdesinaThe African Development Bank has chosen the Mauritanian economist Sidi Ould Tah as its president-elect after three rounds of voting on Thursday aft…
Alarm as Javier Milei’s government curbs state supply of abortion pills and seeks to reverse landmark legalisationArgentina is being used as a “testing ground” for stripping back abortion rights internationally as it cuts funding for contraceptives and…
Report from Human Rights Watch criticises Museveni regime for arbitrary arrests and detentions, violence and extortion since draconian new law enactedThe Ugandan authorities have “unleashed abuse”, perpetrating widespread discrimination and violence ag…