UNITED NATIONS, Aug 7 2025 (IPS)* –– The humanitarian situation in Haiti has deteriorated significantly in the past few weeks, with the United Nations (UN) underscoring a growing list of abuses committed by armed groups, including killings, kidnappings, and sexual violence.
Christiana, a mother of six, fled repeated waves of armed violence, first from her home in Morne Blanc, where her husband was killed in 2024, then from Mirebalais in March 2025, seeking safety in Boucan Carré. Credit: UNICEF/Herold Joseph
N’Djamena, Chad, 8 August 2025 – In a country where legal frameworks are still taking root and taboos around human trafficking and exploitation run deep, Julienne Deyo stands as a determined force. A lawyer by training and justice advocate by conviction, she has been at the frontlines of the Chad’s fight against human trafficking since 2018.
Now Chair of the National Commission to Combat Trafficking in Persons and Director of Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Madame Deyo leads with both a steady resolve and a heart marked by the suffering she’s witnessed.
“It started with the stories of young boys,” she recalls. “Children sold off to cattle herders, sent into the bush, far from their families, walking behind herds. Some were bitten by snakes and died alone. No one seemed to care. How can anyone stay unmoved?”
Madame Deyo’s focus is as much on the survivors as it is on building a foundation that prevents such abuse from happening again. Illustration: AI-generated image
GENEVA – Uganda is on the verge of hosting two million refugees as escalating crises in Sudan, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) drive hundreds of people to cross the border daily in search of safety and lifesaving aid.
Since the start of 2025, an average of 600 people per day have arrived in the country, with numbers expected to reach two million by year’s end.
Already Africa’s largest refugee-hosting country and the third largest globally, Uganda is currently home to 1.93 million refugees, over a million of whom are below the age of 18.
(UN News)* — Help is needed urgently to halt a deadly cholera outbreak that is sweeping across Sudan, UN agencies said on Friday [], while warning that communities continue to be terrorised by parties to the conflict even as they flee violence.
“People told me multiple times that when they were fleeing from Zamzam [displacement camp], armed people would threaten them while they were in flight, saying sure, ‘Flee, go to that place, run here, run there, we will follow you, we will find you’,” said Jocelyn Elizabeth Knight, a Protection Officer for the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.
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Briefing journalists in Geneva, Ms. Knight described speaking to one traumatized child at a UNHCR shelter, whose experience mirrors that of countless other youngsters across the nation.
“A tiny boy told me, ‘You know, during the day things are okay here, but I’m afraid to go to sleep at night in case the place where we’re living is attacked again’.”
Sana’a, Yemen — Fourteen men and four women set off from the Horn of Africa, drifting into the unknown across the sea.
After surviving the journey to Yemen, Sennait gave birth at a migrant centre and now hopes to rebuild her life with her baby. Photo: AI-generated image
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Among them was Sennait*, a 20-year-old Ethiopian woman carrying the weight of her father’s recent death and the scars of a harrowing trek from her village to the coastal town of Bossaso.
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Her life had once been simple. She went to school, laughed with friends, and helped her father tend their small farm.
(UN News)* — UN Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed grave concern over Israel’s decision to “take control of Gaza City”, his Spokesperson said in a statement on Friday [].
The announcement following an Israeli cabinet meeting “marks a dangerous escalation and risks deepening the already catastrophic consequences for millions of Palestinians, and could further endanger more lives, including of the remaining hostages,” it said.
The statement noted that Palestinians in Gaza continue to endure a humanitarian catastrophe of horrific proportions.
JERUSALEM, 7 August 2025–An analysis of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical data, patients’ testimonies, and first-hand medical witnessing at two MSF clinics in Gaza, Palestine, point to both targeted and indiscriminate violence by Israeli forces and private American contractors against starved Palestinians at food distribution sites run by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
The GHF-run food distributions in Gaza, Palestine, have become sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation”, not humanitarian aid.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Aug 7 2025 (IPS)* –– On August the first, the Italian daily La Repubblica published an interview with David Grossman, Israel’s most renown author and supporter of a “two-state solution”, as well as an outspoken critic of Israel’s violence against Palestinian civilians.
Grossman’s interview received international attention and was quoted by respected newspapers like The Guardian, Le Figaro and Haaretz.
Israeli presence on the West Bank. The orange and red patches are what remains of Palestinian controlled areas.
An invitation for the reader to analyze and decide which countries, peoples, and/or cultures can be considered civilized in the 21st century—more specifically, in 2025.
A civilization or culture is defined as a set of customs, traditions, ethics, values, language, music, dance, gastronomy, clothing, religion, and social and political organization of a people, ethnic group, tribe, or nation.
British scholars of the 19th century classified the peoples and races as Civilized, Barbarians and Savages, based on their respective “evolutions.” Such classification was based primarily on three factors:
Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution;
the Industrial Revolution in the beginning of industrial capitalism; and
the Reformation of the Catholic Church, the schism from which Protestantism arose.
(UN News)* — Famine was declared in the Zamzam camp in North Darfur one year ago. And since then, little has changed – no aid trucks have reached the region, the nearby city of El Fasher is still under siege and food prices are four times higher than other parts of the country.
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