Media Coverage

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias killed “at least thousands of people” in West Darfur state, an international rights group has said, in what it called apparent “crimes against humanity” and “genocide.” In a report published on May 9, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said...

President Joe Biden on May 8 publicly warned Israel for the first time that the United States (US) would stop supplying it weapons if Israeli forces make a major invasion of Rafah, a refugee-packed city in southern Gaza. Biden acknowledged US weapons have been used by Israel to kill civilians in...

Police in Vietnam have arrested a senior official involved in talks with international organisations on labor reforms, state media said on May 9, adding that the action was linked to disclosure of classified information. The detention of Nguyen Van Binh follows months of arrests of prominent experts...

A transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for Haiti is changing the way it operates in a move that surprised many as gang violence consumes the country. Instead of having a single council president, four longtime politicians will take turns leading the council every five months...

Al-Qaeda-linked and warring ethnically based armed groups are committing atrocities in Mali, Human Rights Watch reports. The watchdog said in a report released on May 8 that fighters from Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wa al-Muslimeen and Dozo militia killed 45 people in separate attacks on villages in...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on May 5 rejected international pressure to halt the war in Gaza in a fiery speech marking the country’s annual Holocaust memorial day, declaring: “If Israel is forced to stand alone, Israel will stand alone.” The message, delivered in a setting that...

Campus protests by pro-Palestinian activists spread across Europe on May 7 as some called for a break in academic ties with Israel over the war in Gaza, while schools increasingly faced the question under debate in the US: Allow or intervene? German police broke up a protest by several hundred pro...

A powerful ethnic minority armed group battling Myanmar’s army in the country’s west claimed on May 6 to have taken hundreds of government soldiers prisoner when it captured a major command post. The Arakan Army, the well-trained and well-armed military wing of the Rakhine ethnic minority movement...

Every year on May 3, UNESCO commemorates World Press Freedom Day. It is being marked at a particularly perilous time for journalists globally, with Israel’s war on Gaza becoming the deadliest conflict for journalists and media workers. More than 100 journalists and media workers, the vast majority...

Jose Raul Mulino, a stand-in for a former president banned from running, has won the country’s presidential elections. Authorities unofficially called the race late on May 5 after three of Mulino’s closest competitors conceded defeat. The former security minister, who was a late entrant to the race...