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By late May, at least 48 people were killed in rural areas of Colombia following clashes between the FARC guerrilla dissident groups controlled by the aliases “Calarcá” and “Iván Mordisco.”

Israeli strike on Gaza tent wounds five Palestinians An Israeli air strike has hit a tent housing displaced Palestinian families in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, injuring at least five people, the Wafa news agency reports. Israel has repeatedly attacked al-Mawasi despite ordering Palestinians to flee there during its genocidal war on Ga

China’s UN envoy calls on Israel to stop Gaza ceasefire violations China's permanent representative to the United Nations, Fu Cong, called on Israel to stop violating the ceasefire in Gaza, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported. Speaking on Friday at an emergency UN Security Council session on the humanitarian situation in Gaza, Fu said China views Israel's

World Cup 2026: Why Sahrawis are rallying behind Algeria and not Morocco Submitted by Habibulah Mohamed Lamin on Fri, 06/19/2026 - 09:15 Support for Algeria is rooted in almost five decades of refuge and a shared political struggle

[African Arguments] In south-central Somalia, a trader knows what to expect at an al-Shabaab checkpoint. The rate is fixed, set out in a published schedule. The receipt allows passage through the next checkpoint without paying again. If the assessment seems unfair, there is a court the trader can appeal to. This is how a Mogadishu-based NGO director described the system to The New Humanitarian las

[ISS] The coercive repatriation of Burundian refugees risks reproducing cycles of displacement ahead of Burundi's 2027 elections.

Descendants of families forcibly displaced during the creation of Maiko National Park in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo back in the 1970s are now leading a new wave of community-led conservation. Gangala Yafali Mangusa Jr., from one such displaced family, is the head of the Bamasobha Local Community Forest Concession (CFCL), […]

A refugee advocate says the Australian government is refusing to medivac a severely ill Kurdish-Iranian man currently in Port Moresby.

[UN News] The UN's top human rights official has issued an urgent warning that an imminent offensive against El Obeid, the capital of Sudan's North Kordofan state, carries the risk of serious international crimes and threatens to deepen an already catastrophic humanitarian crisis.

[Dabanga] Amsterdam / Khartoum / Port Sudan -- A high-level delegation of heads of European Union missions, comprising 14 diplomats and headed by the head of the mission to Sudan, Wolfram Vetter, concluded a visit to Sudan, the first of its kind since the outbreak of war on April 15, 2023. The two-day visit to Khartoum and Port Sudan included a series of meetings with Sudanese officials, including

[Dabanga] Washington D.C. -- The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a bill on Wednesday directing US representatives at international financial institutions (such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund) to oppose providing loans or debt relief to the Sudanese government, except in cases of emergency humanitarian projects. The Prevention of External Aggression and Escalat

Young children are bearing the brunt of life in holding centres, where parents worry about nutrition, sickness and unsafe conditions.

[Nyasa Times] To the People of Malawi, Southern African Neighbors, and Global Citizens of Conscience,

In April, the first Afghanistan-Central Asia Consultative Dialogue was held in Kabul, highlighting the considerable development of relations over the last five years.

In south-central Somalia, a trader knows what to expect at an al-Shabaab checkpoint. The rate is fixed, set out in a published schedule. The receipt allows passage through the next checkpoint without paying again. If the assessment seems unfair, there is a court the trader can appeal to. This is how a Mogadishu-based NGO director described the system to The New Humanitarian last September. At a fe

Fresh data collection covers previously registered families living outside holding centres as relief payments near.

“Haiti is not asking for charity, but for the world to keep its promises,” António Guterres said during a short visit to the Haitian capital. Speaking at a press conference in Pétion-Ville before departing the country, Guterres said Haitians should know they are not alone and that the world cannot continue to turn away from the country's suffering. The post UN Secretary-General António Guterres u

[Shabelle] Mogadishu -- Somalia's disaster management chief met Wednesday with a senior Egyptian official in Mogadishu to strengthen humanitarian cooperation.

Seven people said to have recovered from Ebola were released from a treatment centre in DR Congo on Tuesday, according to local health officials from the humanitarian organization Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA)

'They're not all Hezbollah': Trump criticises Israel killing civilians in Lebanon Submitted by Alex MacDonald on Wed, 06/17/2026 - 09:50 US president warns Netanyahu that without him there would 'be no Israel' US Pres