Perfect storm in South Sudan demands urgent action
28/3/2025: The UN Secretary-General has warned that recent events in South Sudan may signal a severe unravelling of the peace process. The main opposition leader, Riek Machar, has been arrested, alongside mounting military clashes and the growing regional spillover from the conflict in neighbouring Sudan.
Source: UN News
Israel ends ceasefire in Gaza as strikes resume
20/3/2025: On March 18, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched an attack on the Gaza Strip, effectively terminating the Israel-Hamas ceasefire agreement. This comes after a pause in ceasefire operations when Israel continued its blockade on humanitarian aid in the enclave and demanded the release of additional hostages.
Source: Inter Press Service
DOGE ‘breaks into’ the US Institute of Peace
18/3/2025: The US Institute of Peace has described itself as a nonpartisan, independent entity, focused on protecting American interests by preventing violence and promoting peace. Although not a U.S. government agency, it was one of three international aid organizations targeted by President Trump last month. Now, DOGE has made its way into USIP’s offices too.
Source: Devex
Ukrainians stress that a peace agreement must include justice
11/3/2025: After three years of bloodshed, the people of Ukraine are in limbo as peace negotiations to end the war, instigated by US President Donald Trump, remain unpredictable. Efforts so far have been plagued by disinformation, undiplomatic behavior, and erratic political signals.
Source: Inter Press Service
Tensions undermine second phase of Gaza ceasefire
10/3/2025: The first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire has enabled conditions for health, education and nutrition in Gaza to improve. Humanitarian progress is now impeded by the inability of all parties to secure agreement to Phase 2.
Source: Inter Press Service
Israel again blocks Gaza aid, further risking lives
5/3/2025: Since March 2 the Israeli government has again blocked all aid entering Gaza, including fuel, in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law. Supplies of food and water are at imminent risk. Israel as a warring party has an obligation to facilitate humanitarian aid, ceasefire or not, according to Human Rights Watch.
Source: Human Rights Watch
Gaza ceasefire looks doomed as Israel blockades humanitarian aid
4/3/2025: On March 1, as stage one of the ceasefire was due to end, Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a full blockade of humanitarian aid entering Gaza. A Middle East expert answers questions as to what is happening and how this situation may play out.
Source: The Conversation
Almost 80,000 flee DR Congo amid fighting, sexual violence
4/3/2025: Armed clashes between government forces and Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have created insecurity and horrific sexual violence, according to the UN Refugee Agency Close to 80,000 people have fled into neighbouring countries.
Source: UN News
Guterres urges parties to find a way forward on next phase of Gaza ceasefire
1/3/2025: The six-week long ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has ended with further negotiations between the sides still pending. The Secretary-General has called for a permanent ceasefire and the release of all hostages. During the period of the truce, thousands of trucks carrying life-saving assistance entered Gaza, reaching nearly every person in the Strip.
Source: UN News
Trump’s proposed Gaza takeover denounced as ethnic cleansing
19/2/2025: President Trump has threatened to “seize Gaza,” turn it into a “Riviera of the Middle East,” and move Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned Trump’s plan, stating that: “ethnic cleansing is not acceptable in our world.”
Source: Inter Press Service