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Millions of displaced Sudanese struggle for survival as conflict and hunger grip South Kordofan
Illustrations to depict the testimonies of people who have fled to Sudan’s Nuba mountains in search of safety from the ongoing conflict, March 2025.
Sudan, 15 April 2025 – Most people know her as Mama Nour (Light in Arabic), a name that perfectly embodies her spirit. Nour Hussein Al Sewaty Mohammed has devoted her life to bringing hope and light to countless women and children in Sudan who have faced unimaginable hardships, even amid Sudan’s ongoing war.
Mama Nour, an orphan herself, now advocates for single mothers and children without parental care in Sudan. Photo: IOM Sudan 2025/Omer Hagali
Mama Nour’s journey began in the shadows of her own childhood. Orphaned at a young age, she grew up in Maygoma, Sudan’s largest orphanage located in the capital, Khartoum.
Global warming has led to the loss of glacier ice in Austria. Photo credit: H.Raab/Climate Visuals
Last year record temperatures, heatwaves, and floods unleashed a massive toll on infrastructure, cities, economies, and people’s lives and livelihoods in the region.
(UN News)* — Two years since Sudan’s brutal conflict began, UN agencies warned that famine is spreading and civilians of all ages continue to suffer shocking abuse, including rape and gang rape.
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11 April 2025 — On the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a group of Israeli settlers carrying metal sticks and tools descended a rocky hill and attacked Khadija Kaabneh’s family.
Khadija Kaabneh looks towards her family’s third displacement site. Photo: Farah Bayadsi/NRC
The settlers stormed and destroyed the family’s tents, ransacked their belongings, and beat Khadija’s husband and sons. Fearing for her and her daughters’ safety, she fled to a nearby hill, helpless as she watched settlers attack her eldest son, Bashar.
A couple of hours after the 1 March attack, they issued a threat. “They said they would kill us if we stayed,” recounts Khadija.
Civilians in Colombia are in grave danger and must be protected without delay. By April 2026, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) forecasts that the number of civilians affected by the ongoing armed conflict in the country will exceed ten million people.
This includes people killed, disappeared, dispossessed of their land, tortured, forcibly recruited, threatened, kidnapped, confined, displaced, as well as victims of sexual violence and explosive ordnance.
(Washington, DC) – The governments of the United States and El Salvador have subjected more than 200 Venezuelan nationals to enforced disappearances and arbitrary detention, Human Rights Watch said today [11 April 2025].
THE WEST BANK, Occupied Palestinian Territory, 11 April 2025 – “I suffered from postpartum fever, but reaching the hospital was nearly impossible because of the siege on medical services,” said 26-year-old Sara*, from the Nur Shams refugee camp near the Palestinian city of Tulkarm.
She gave birth a little over two months ago, just as the Israeli forces began renewed and intense incursions into multiple areas of the West Bank, where pregnant women and new mothers grapple daily with displacement and the denial of healthcare.
(UN News)* — Sexual violence against children in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reached staggering proportions, with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reporting thousands of new cases in just two months – evidence that it’s being used as a systemic weapon of war and deliberate terror tactic.
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(UN News)* — Hostilities across the Gaza Strip continue to take a devastating toll on the population, with daily reports of Israeli strikes killing and injuring many civilians, UN aid coordination office OCHA said on Thursday .
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