Media Coverage

The UN’s special representative for Afghanistan warned the country is “on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe,” predicting that 60% of 38 million Afghans face crisis levels of hunger. The catastrophe “is preventable” according to Deborah Lyons who cited financial sanctions on the Taliban as a...

Venezuela’s opposition will contest regional elections on Sunday for the first time in nearly four years, but remains unconvinced President Nicolas Maduro will allow the vote to be free. The last legislative and presidential election was boycotted over a lack of free, fair and transparent polls...

Poland accused Belarus of trucking hundreds of migrants back to the border and pushing them to attempt to cross illegally even after main camps by the border were cleared. Belarus denies fomenting the crisis. Human rights groups say Poland has exacerbated the suffering by sending back those who try...

Street confrontations have again shaken Sudan’s capital, a day after security forces shot dead 15 protesters in the bloodiest day since the military’s October 25 takeover. Top general Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan insists the military’s move “was not a coup” but a step to “rectify the course of the...

A simmering months-long border crisis along the European Union's frontiers with Belarus has this week morphed into a serious geopolitical dispute and stoked fears of a humanitarian disaster. It is estimated that thousands are now gathered near the line that divides Belarus and Poland. Those trying...

The United States has sanctioned the Eritrean military, the Eritrean Defense Forces, and the country's ruling party, the People's Front for Democracy and Justice, for "contributing to the crisis and conflict" in Ethiopia, which has displaced more than 2.5 million people and killed thousands...

The United Nations has said 16 of its Ethiopian staff have been detained in the country's capital, Addis Ababa, with six others having been released. UN spokesperson Stephanie Dujarric said, "There has been, as far as I know, no explanation given to us on why these staff members are detained."...

The prison hospital treating Georgia's hunger-striking former president Mikheil Saakashbili lacks proper medical equipment and fellow inmates there have threatened and abused him, according to a Georgian human rights official. Public Defender Nino Lomjaria, Georgia's rights ombudsman said,...

Nicaragua is holding general elections after a months-long campaign mired by controversy, including a widely denounced wave of arrests of opposition leaderrs and presidential hopefuls. President Daniel Ortega, running virtually unopposed, has overseen what rights groups and international observers...

Nine anti government factions in Ethiopia have said they had formed an alliance, the United Front of Ethiopian Federalist and Confederalist Forces, amid growing fears that they will attempt to overthrow the government of Abiy Ahmed. The United Front said it was being formed "to reverse the harmful...