Conflict

13/4/2025: An Oxfam report warns that, as Sudan’s conflict enters its third year, massive displacement and fighting are spilling over into neighbouring countries, worsening the already catastrophic humanitarian crisis. The report urges all warring parties to halt fighting and prioritize diplomacy, in order to forge an immediate and lasting ceasefire.

Source: Oxfam International

3/4/2025: The Secretary General of Amnesty International has said that by welcoming Netanyahu, Hungary is effectively giving a seal of approval to Israel’s genocide. Hungary’s purported withdrawal from the ICC is a brazen and futile attempt to evade international justice.

Source: Amnesty International

1/4/2025: For over three decades, the US has been the world's largest contributor to humanitarian demining. But the Trump administration’s deep cuts to foreign aid are now disrupting mine clearance operations. Meanwhile defense ministers from Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have announced their intention to withdraw from the 1997 treaty banning antipersonnel mines.

Source: Human Rights Watch

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

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

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

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

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

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

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