(AP) – Congo military “elements” are responsible for digging at least 42 mass graves in three Kasai provinces after clashes with alleged militia members in recent months, the United Nations said as experts were appointed Wednesday to look into a growing crisis that has killed hundreds and displaced more than a million people. Human rights have […]
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(Reuters) – As people return home to Mosul and other areas of northern Iraq freed from Islamic State, homemade bombs and explosives laid on an industrial scale by the insurgents are claiming hundreds of victims and hampering efforts to bring life back to normal. Houses, schools, mosques and streets are all booby-trapped, a big problem in […]
(WHO) – Attacks on health care is one of the major reason affecting health service delivery in Syria. Under the leadership of WHO, Health Cluster is tracking the impact of attacks on the health care providers and service delivery infrastructures. Link
(NPR) – Vaccine progress is stalling. That’s the message from a new report issued by the World Health Organization and UNICEF. The report focuses on the DTP vaccine — the essential vaccine that protects kids against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough) and that was first licensed in 1949. Link
(UNICEF DRC) – For years in Tanganyika, an intercommunity conflict divides pygmees and bantus. The women and children are the first victims of the clashes. Even more: hundreds of children find themselves on the front lines of the self-defense groups. Link
(HRW) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatened airstrikes on schools for indigenous children on the southern island of Mindanao that he alleged are teaching “subversion [and] communism.” “I will bomb those schools,” Duterte said on Monday. “I will use the Armed Forces, the Philippine Air Force…because you’re operating illegally and you’re teaching the children to rebel against government.” Link
(RFE/RL) – Afghan officials say a Taliban suicide car bombing has killed at least 26 people and wounded 41 others in the capital, Kabul. The July 24 attack came as a presidential spokesman said the militant group also killed 35 civilians in an attack on a hospital in central Ghor Province over the weekend. Link
(Colombia Reports) – Combat between Colombia’s security forces and an unidentified illegal armed group forced some 240 locals to flee their homes in the northeast of the country, according to the United Nations. The fighting has been taking place for days in the municipality of Hacari, Norte de Santander, from where the first reports of combat and […]
(The Guardian) – David Zelu, not yet 16 years old, looks up, smiles, and stretches his arms to the sky where the sun is finally breaking through the clouds. The rain that has hammered on the wooden roof of the small hut he shares with four other teenagers has passed. Crows wheel overhead, and small thin […]
(The Independent) – As many as 600,000 people in Yemen are expected to contract cholera before the end of 2017 as the conflict-riven country struggles to contain the disease, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said. Arriving in the government-controlled city of Aden on Sunday Peter Mauer warned that the “great tragedy is that […]
