The widespread use of rape and other sexual violence as a weapon of war in Sudan has spurred a massive mental health crisis, United Nations agencies and local aid groups warned. The Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a brutal conflict since April 2023 that has killed tens of thousands and displaced around 11 million people. Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières last month said at least 3,396 survivors of sexual violence – nearly all of them women...
Returnees find chronic need for investment with homes, water supplies, health provision, electricity 'heavily damaged'.
UN aid chief Tom Fletcher says that South Sudan is at risk of slipping into 'full-scale famine and collapse’.
The International Organization for Migration laments one of the deadliest starts to a year since record keeping began.
UN experts say Israel 'emboldened by impunity' for previous journalist killings in Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank.