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Photo by consolersafari on pixabay.com From the bombs that fell on city streets to the dusty roads of villages in Darfur and Kordofan, the war in Sudan has turned women’s bodies into battlegrounds. According to UN Women, there is mounting evidence that rape is being used “deliberately and systematically as a weapon of war.” In the besieged region of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, women fleeing bombardment, hunger and displacement recount terrifying stories of gang r

Photo by jorono on Pixabay.com Since late January, fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has intensified after the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group seized the strategic cities of Goma and Bukavu, sparking a wave of human rights abuses.   Amnesty International reports that M23 fighters have raided hospitals, abducting patients, including wounded soldiers and civilians, from their beds and subjecting them to torture.  The organization has documented cases of

Photo by Daniel Omolewa on Unsplash.com On September 25, 2025, the Netherlands and Uganda signed a Declaration of Intent,  representing yet another problematic case of the externalization of migration management .  Promoted by the extreme right-wing component of the Dutch political landscape (PVV) , this scheme delegates the most critical phase of the asylum procedure,  the coercive return of rejected international protection applicants, to a third State.  This raises complex

photo by AluminumAzalea  on pixabay.com Gend er diversity and various expressions of sexual orientations are documented throughout recorded human history,  in multiple cultures and civilisations  on every continent. In particular, within the African region, many peoples’ cultures understood gender and sexual orientation as something fluid, missing a binary approach to it.  However, this changed when European colonialism took over the continent: the international community, no

photo by Bako Harry Rakotondratompo o n pexels.com   Recent water and electricity shortages have sparked massive protests in Madagascar’s main cities. The prime minister and the rest of the government were dismissed , and the president reportedly fled the country consequently to Gen Z-led demonstrations. According to the United Nations (UN), since 25 September 2025 at least 22 people have been killed  by national security forces amid fights with protesters. Reporters stated t

photo by jusuf111 on pixabay.com For the first time, the United Nations (UN) has reported on violations committed by armed forces in...

photo by Safi Erneste on pexels.com The Democratic Republic of Congo is facing one of the world’s most severe and underreported...

photo by Faruk Tokluoğlu on pexel.com Sudan is gripped by a bloody conflict that erupted in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces...