Media Coverage

At least 360 people kidnapped by Boko Haram jihadists from a mainly Muslim community in Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state in March have been freed from a remote mountain hideout. Mass abductions by armed groups for ransom have become a common tactic in Nigeria in recent years — and though it is...

French anti-terrorism prosecutors say they have opened a preliminary investigation into suspected “torture” and “war crimes” over Israel’s alleged mistreatment of French activists who took part in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla last month. Israel abducted and detained some 430 activists from about 40...

In Ecuador, violent drug cartels have arrived from around the world to secure cocaine trafficking routes to the coast and homicide rates have skyrocketed. President Daniel Noboa has pinned his hopes of lowering the violence on heavy police and military deployments across the country. In doing so...

Israel’s Supreme Court has unanimously rejected a government policy banning representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from visiting Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. The court ruled that by preventing the Red Cross from visiting prisoners, the government had...

A cyber-attack targeting the World Food Programme (WFP) has exposed sensitive personal information belonging to some 600,000 households in Gaza, the UN’s food agency has confirmed, in what may be the largest-known breach of humanitarian beneficiary data to date. The exposed information included...

Ghana’s LGBTQ community is living in fear after the country’s parliament approved a sweeping bill that criminalizes the promotion of LGBTQ+ activities and identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, rights groups have warned. The legislation mandates prison sentences of three to 10...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, May 28, that he had ordered the country's military to take control of 70 percent of the Gaza Strip, in defiance of the terms of a fragile ceasefire that took effect in October. "We are currently squeezing Hamas. We now control 60 percent of...

At least 19 people have been killed and 58 wounded in Israeli attacks in Lebanon, according to Lebanese health authorities, as Israel intensifies its assault in the south and issues mass displacement orders across the region. Lebanon’s health ministry said on Thursday that an Israeli air strike...

At least 52 guerrilla fighters have been killed in clashes between two rival armed groups vying for territorial control of a strategic cocaine production and trafficking region in southeast Colombia, a faction of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) involved in the fighting has said...

Hungary’s parliament voted on Wednesday to remain a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC), reversing a decision by the previous government of Viktor Orbán to withdraw from the global tribunal. Orbán’s government announced last year that Hungary would quit the ICC, the world’s only...