Archive for August 27th, 2025

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27/08/2025

“We grew up waiting”

Human Wrongs Watch

Interview and photos: Ratul Biswas Piul | The Norwegian Refugee Council*

Eight years of displacement for Abu and the Rohingya people

Abu, 18, has spent nearly half his life in this refugee camp.

“Today I am eighteen. I grew up in this refugee camp, waiting for education, waiting for a future, waiting to return home with dignity and rights.”

Abu*, an 18-year-old boy, was only 10 when he and his family fled Myanmar in 2017. Eight years on, he reflects on his life as a refugee and his hopes and fears for the future.

It was a Thursday in August. After lunch, we were resting when suddenly we heard shouting around our house. Our peaceful village, Thingana, surrounded by green fields and trees, turned into chaos.

An armed group was ordering people to leave their homes. They threatened to set fire to the houses and kill anyone who stayed.

Gunfire filled the air.

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27/08/2025

DR Congo: The Doctor Who Couldn’t Leave Goma

Human Wrongs Watch

By Fabrice Robinet

(UN News)* — In the days leading up to the fall of Goma, the capital of North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dr. Thierno Balde slept with a helmet and bulletproof vest beside his bed as shells rattled the walls of his hotel.
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Dr Thierno Baldé (back to camera) at a health facility where WHO supported the deployment of an emergency medical team in Goma.
© WHO | Dr Thierno Baldé (back to camera) at a health facility where WHO supported the deployment of an emergency medical team in Goma.

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