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Desperate: Since the war started 13 million Sudanese civilians have been displaced. Photo: Jérôme Tubiana/Crisis Group
AFRICAN UNION

We cannot ignore the Sudanese civil war

Millions have been displaced, millions more are starving and hundreds of thousands are dead, but Africa remains silent

  • Kenneth Mokgatlhe
4 min read
Former president Thabo Mbeki.
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

Open letter to Thabo Mbeki on the crisis in the DRC

With respect, your recent statements regarding the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo carry the tone of pre-hostile rhetoric laced with accusatory language, ethnic…

  • Roger B Bope
5 min read
Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the war in the DRC. Photo: WFP/Michael Castofas
BUKAVU

Displaced again: People flee fear, hunger as violence grips eastern DRC

Urgent diplomatic interventions are needed as the second largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo falls to M23

  • World Food Programme staff
4 min read
JERUSALEM – JULY 19: Israel’s controversial West Bank barrier weaves its way between the Palestinian refugee camp of Shuafat (front) and the Jewish neighbourhood of Pisgat Zeev July 19, 2009 in East Jerusalem, the part of the city Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 Six Day War. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the weekly cabinet meeting that Israel’s sovereignty over the city was not a matter up for discussion after the U.S. State Department told the Israeli envoy to Washington that it must halt a right-wing Israeli construction project at the Shepherd Hotel in the East Jerusalem Arab suburb of Sheikh Jarrah. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)
ARTICLE

Jewish National Fund’s green facade erases Palestinian villages, facilitates land grabs for Israel

The organisation has advanced the Israeli settler project on Palestinian land in the West Bank, and within the Green Line area and Galilee

  • Sozarn
5 min read
Although the government’s vaccination drive is already in full swing, there have been no announced plans for the vaccination of homeless people, despite the public health risk if they are left out. (Darren Stewart/Gallo Images)
CITY OF JOHANNESBURG

Joburg’s homeless people miss out on jabs

Gauteng has ‘no plan’ to vaccinate its 10 000 displaced persons

  • Chris Gilili
3 min read
“It builds up over time, and you don’t talk about it, you just shut people out, because everyone looks at you being a cop, like [you are supposed] to be superhuman, you are not supposed to show any sign of weaknesses.” (Oliver Petrie/Getty Images)
AARON MOTSOALEDI

World Refugee Day: A call for inclusion as 82-million people are displaced

More than 11-million people were forced to flee their countries in 2020

  • Eunice Masson
4 min read