West Africa’s Sahel becoming a drug trafficking corridor, UN warns | Drugs News
Drug seizures, mainly of cocaine and cannabis resin, have soared in the region, according to a UN report. Drug seizures have soared in the West…
‘Unconscionable’: US sends dozens to Haiti on deportation flight | Migration News
Deportations ‘could be a death sentence’, advocates say, as gang violence and instability grip the Caribbean country. The United States has sent dozens of Haitian…
Nigeria’s Chibok girls kidnapping: 10 years later, a struggle to move on | Boko Haram
Maiduguri, Nigeria – It has been nearly a year since 26-year-old Rabiat left the Boko Haram enclave she was held in for close to a…
Rights advocates demand end to Haiti deportations as unrest continues | Migration News
Rights advocates are calling on countries across the Americas — notably the United States and the Dominican Republic — to stop deporting migrants and asylum…
Why mass kidnappings still plague Nigeria a decade after Chibok abductions | Armed Groups News
Lagos, Nigeria – In the decade since the armed group Boko Haram kidnapped nearly 300 students at an all-girls school in the town of Chibok,…
Eastern DRC ‘at breaking point’ as security, humanitarian crises worsen | Armed Groups News
War is on the doorstep of eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Goma city and the region is at breaking point, activists and aid workers…
March of ‘terror’: Pakistan grapples with deadly attacks on China interests | Armed Groups News
Islamabad, Pakistan: In the 10 days between March 16 and March 26, Pakistan witnessed five different attacks, three in its northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and…
Canada launches programme to get citizens out of violence-hit Haiti | Politics News
Canada has organised helicopter flights for ‘vulnerable’ citizens to leave Haiti for the neighbouring Dominican Republic. Canada has launched a programme to get its citizens…
‘A criminal economy’: How US arms fuel deadly gang violence in Haiti | Armed Groups News
For years, as armed groups plunged Haiti into deeper unrest, human rights advocates and civil society groups have issued a clear demand. Stop the flow…
Nigerian army rescues 17 students abducted from Sokoto state | Government
NewsFeedChildren who were kidnapped in two separate abductions in northern Nigeria have been freed. On Friday the army rescued one group taken from Sokoto, while…
Haiti unrest fuels fear, frustration in tight-knit Haitian diasporas | Armed Groups News
Montreal, Canada – Marjorie Villefranche has never experienced anything like it. For the past six months, the head of Maison d’Haiti (Haiti House), a community…
Sixteen Nigerian soldiers killed in attack in Delta state | Conflict News
The soldiers were on a mission to stop the conflict between two communities in the Bomadi region. Sixteen Nigerian soldiers have been killed on a…
Who are Haiti’s gangs and what do they want? All you need to know | Armed Groups News
Haitian armed groups have dominated global headlines in recent weeks, as gunmen attack police stations, prisons and other institutions in the capital of Port-au-Prince, effectively…
‘Should never have come to this’: What’s next as Henry steps down in Haiti? | Politics News
After nearly two weeks of heightened gang violence and instability, millions of Haitians woke up to the news that Ariel Henry has pledged to resign…
Al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula announces death of leader Khalid Batarfi | Armed Groups News
Armed group says Saad bin Atef al-Awlaki takes over as new leader after Batarfi’s death, according to SITE Intelligence Group. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula…
Ramadan around the corner in Sudan amid ‘the world’s largest hunger crisis’ | Conflict
NewsFeed25 million people affected by the war in Sudan don’t know where their next meal is coming from, according to the World Food Programme. The…
US military airlifts some embassy personnel from Haiti, bolsters security | Armed Groups News
The US operation comes amid gang violence that threatens to bring down the government and has led thousands to flee their homes. The US military…
Parents protest after 280 children are abducted from Nigeria school | Armed Groups
NewsFeedParents from a village in northern Nigeria have been protesting after gunmen abducted more than 280 children from the local school.Published On 8 Mar 20248…
Dozens of pupils abducted by gunmen in Nigeria’s northwest | Armed Groups News
Gunmen escape with children from a government primary school in Kuriga town in Kaduna state. Gunmen have attacked a school in northwestern Nigeria and kidnapped…
US denies pressuring Haiti PM Henry to resign, urges political ‘transition’ | Politics News
The United States says it is not pressuring Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry to step down amid a fresh wave of violence and soaring instability…