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Two Rwandan refugee women were deliberately burned alive in Munzenze Main Prison in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This heinous act was allegedly carried out by M23 rebels backed by Rwanda.…
During his address to Congress on March 4, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump faced brief heckling from Democratic Representative AI Green and scattered jeers from his colleagues. But the overwhelming response was silence, reflective…
The Serengeti ecosystem is regarded as one of our planet’s greatest natural treasures, where one can witness“the largest remaining unaltered animal migration in the world,” according to UNESCO. Kenya’s share of the Serengeti plains…
Sudan has filed a case against the United Arab Emirates arguing that the Gulf state is complicit in genocide over its alleged support for Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, the International Court of Justice announced Thursday. Khartoum…
By Frank Okyere Osei When discussing atrocity prevention, global attention often gravitates toward major powers. Yet, Ghana, a small West African nation, offers a compelling case of how smaller states can meaningfully…
UNICEF/Roger LeMoyne The Congolese Action Youth Platform (CAYP) is campaigning for the recognition of the Genocide against the people of DR Congo to be commemorated on August 2nd, the anniversary of…
February 2025 * Combatants for Peace, Israel and Palestine, 2025 [3] At a time of great crisis and change, we write in continued and consistent urgency for peace with justice, through dialogue and…
07Mar 2025 7th March, 2025 Press release RE-ARMAMENT OF EUROPE IS NOT THE WAY – PEACE IS THE WAY —————————————————————————————– Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel peace laureate, today appealed for peace, not arms…
The situation in eastern Congo is once again escalating dramatically. After long months of the planned advance of the M231 mercenaries – reinforced by other alliances of so-called rebels and units of the…
Yahya Al-Batran mourns the tragic death of his newborn son Jumaa, who froze in a tent amid ongoing violence in Palestine. Highlighting the normalized approach to genocide, the author reflects on the…
A series of gunshots rang out near the Presidential Palace in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, on the evening of January 8. Initial reports from various sources put forward scenarios from an…
In November, Álvaro Noboa, the father of Ecuador’s president Daniel Noboa, had a heart attack. He was hastily taken to a clinic in Guayaquil, his hometown, and then after he was stabilized,…
Nearly half the world’s children “live in countries where risks to their health and safety due to the effects of climate change are extremely high,” according to UNICEF. By 2050, almost all children globally…
Thirty years of economic warfare over raw materials in eastern Congo by Peter Küpfer On 9 November 2024, the Paris Court of Appeal punished a deserving research- er and author with Cameroonian roots, ignoring important facts. For years, his well-researched non-fiction books…
The fall of Damascus and rise of HTS signal a dangerous shift in Syria, deepening regional instability, and isolation for Palestine. From Israel to Africa’s Sahel region, what comes next? 19 Dec…
A Prolific Humanitarian, Dead at 100 – His one term was rocked by multiple crises, but the 39th president will be remembered for his extraordinary decency and philanthropic legacy. 29 Dec 2024…
We have laws to ensure children are born into a safe, sustainable, and unpolluted environment. These laws are also meant to empower future generations and guarantee birth equity. But far from ensuring that these…
11 Nov 2024 – In the 35 years since we first protested for action against climate change on the streets of London, we have often wondered what it is exactly we are trying…
Date: October 17, 2024Location: Goethe-Zentrum Kampala/Uganda German Cultural Society, Plot 52, Bukoto Street, Kamwokya On October 11, 2024, PEN Uganda extended an invitation to a panel discussion at a public symposium addressing…
By Joe Piette Activists marched from Philadelphia City Hall to an Apple store in solidarity with the movement to free Congo on Oct. 19. Philadelphia, Oct. 19, 2024. (WW Photo: Joe Piette) Over…
After news broke that Han Kang—the South Korean author—had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, her father—the novelist Han Seung-won—asked her where she wanted to hold a press conference to talk about the award. She…
On Wednesday, May 9, 2018, New Vision ran a story, Parents’ Reluctance Retards School Feeding Policy. And on Friday, May 11, 2018, the same paper still published a story, Sensitise Parents on…
The Global South is coming, with or–hopefully without–a vengeance. Look at the basic facts in the power distribution. The abrahamic Occident expanded three times: islam 622-1492 from Iberia to the Philippines; christianity…
Forests are essential for life on Earth. Because they produce oxygen and help regulate the balance of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the atmosphere, forests are known as the “lungs of the…