カテゴリー: Sudan
Soaring oil prices and the blockade are preventing food, fuel and medicine being delivered to millions of people in desperate need, say NGOsThe volatility of global oil prices caused by the US and Israel’s war on Iran is taking a toll on the most vulne…
Hostilities should halt and healthcare facilities must be treated as ‘safe havens’, WHO’s regional chief has saidMiddle East crisis – live updatesA total stop to hostilities in the Middle East is needed to halt a “health crisis unfolding in real time”,…
Hostilities should halt and healthcare facilities must be treated as ‘safe havens’, WHO’s regional chief has saidMiddle East crisis – live updatesA total stop to hostilities in the Middle East is needed to halt a “health crisis unfolding in real time”,…
Guardian investigation reveals at least 119 direct attacks on hospitals and delivery wards since start of wars in Ukraine, Gaza and SudanThirty women were sheltering in the Saudi maternity hospital in El Fasher, Sudan, on 28 October when the massacre b…
Caracas describes US government as fascist, Somalia vows to address security and Iranian Americans express regretUS politics live – latest updatesVenezuela has hit back over the Trump administration’s travel ban by warning that the US is a dangerous pl…
With a record number of journalists killed over the past year, four reporters covering conflicts across the world reveal how they dodge death• ‘They threatened to bulldoze my house’: fear and violence stalk journalists in Modi’s IndiaStephen*, 39, is a…
The rules-based world order is in retreat and violence is on the rise, forcing countries to rethink their relationshipsIn a week in which former allies in a redividing globe separately commemorated the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world wa…
While all eyes are on the Middle East and Ukraine, brutality still reigns in many other regions suffering many other conflictsThe world is becoming a more dangerous place. It’s an often-heard sentiment these days, but is it really true? Historical comp…
Médecins Sans Frontières workers have unique insight into the suffering of those they help, providing medical care in times of crisisDonate to our charity appeal hereMédecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is one of the Guardian and Observer’s three 2024 charit…
As attacks on the press rise, the House of Critical Voices offers sanctuary for media workers exposing abusesWith its nuclear bunker, textured walls and Bauhaus furniture, the former training school for combat troops might not look like a hotel, but fo…
Exclusive: critics say British American Tobacco’s plan to ‘flood a country in crisis with cheap cigarettes’ is ‘shameful’A subsidiary of British American Tobacco is lobbying the government of Pakistan to allow it to export 10-packs of cigarettes to war…
Human Rights Watch’s annual report highlights politicians’ double standards and ‘transactional diplomacy’ amid escalating crisesHuman rights across the world are in a parlous state as leaders shun their obligations to uphold international law, accordi…
Calls for drastic overhaul of funding as conflicts and climate crisis drive surge in humanitarian needs and appeals fall shortThe queue for water at Metche, a camp of 40,000 refugees on the Sudan-Chad border, starts at dawn and lasts until sunset. The …
Leaders of charities and NGOs respond to Suella Braverman’s recent comments attacking the refugee convention in the USWar and persecution are driving record numbers of people, including women and girls, to flee their homes. Most remain in their home co…
Images of the struggle for human rights and freedoms around the world this week, from a women’s march for justice in Brazil to an attack on churches in Pakistan Continue reading…