civil war

In a harrowing turn of events in northern South Sudan, the United Nations disclosed deadly confrontations that resulted in civilian casualties and the unfortunate wounding of a UN peacekeeper on a bleak Tuesday. Emerging victorious from its arduous journey to independence in 2011, South Sudan remains beleaguered by tumultuous instability, unceasing violence, and pervasive political discord. One might wonder, what path remains for a nation so rich in resources yet so poor in peace? "Conflict is not a potentiality…

The Humanitarian Catastrophe in Sudan: A Dire Situation Unfolding Doctors Without Borders has labeled the ongoing civil strife in Sudan as one of the gravest humanitarian disasters of our age. For over a year, violence has engulfed the nation, pitting the regular army, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commanded by his former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo. Christos Christou, the international president of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), remarked, "Sudan is experiencing one of…

Obsessed with violence, engulfed in chaos for years, Yemen's problems may be growing even more and even entering an environmental crisis. Yemeni lumberjack Ali al-Emadi spends hours chopping down an acacia tree with an ax as his 12-year-old nephew helps split logs. In a war-torn country, al-Emadi must turn to logging in its northern al-Mahweet region to earn a living. An economic collapse has wiped out the agricultural and construction work for which he used to travel around the country. However, as…

The Taliban claimed on Friday that they control 85 percent of Afghanistan after seizing important border crossings with Iran and Turkmenistan, part of a sweeping offensive launched as US troops withdraw from the war-torn nation. Hours after President Joe Biden issued a strong defense of the US withdrawal, the Taliban said its fighters had seized the two major…

Nigeria became independent from Britain on October 1, 1960, and today has Africa's largest economy. FRANCE 24's Nicolas Germain looks at how the newly independent state was soon entangled in a devastating civil war in the eastern Biafra region that would claim nearly two million lives. Africa's most populous nation became…