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Conflict and arms

News, comment and features on conflict, tribal conflict, war including civil war and violence in developing countries 

August 2024

  • A white UN armoured vehicle passes African women carrying bundles on their head

    UN warns that South Sudan faces ‘existential crisis’ ahead of uncertain polls

  • A sculpted figure representing a man waving a Lebanese flag stands along the road overlooking the port of Beirut on August 4, 2024, as Lebanon marks four years since a catastrophic explosion there that killed at least 220 people.

    ‘We can’t handle a war’: poor and broken, Beirut’s residents dread the arrival of fresh conflict

  • A young child partly covered with a blanket gazes upwards in a displacement camp

    Sudanese factions using starvation as weapon is ‘cowardice’, US envoy says

  • A man in combat fatigues stands by a mental door aiming a rifle at an unseen target

    UN calls for foreign security forces to be deployed faster to quash Haiti gang wars

July 2024

  • A trans woman looks out of a grill over a window on to a street

    Rights and freedom
    ‘We are killed for what we are’: trans women in Colombia targeted by armed groups

  • Two black African soldiers in camouflage holding guns and surrounded by rocket-propelled grenades seen on top of a vehicle

    Girls as young as nine gang-raped by paramilitaries in Sudan – report

  • A destroyer tank lies in front of a mosque in a decimated area of Omdurman, Sudan.

    ‘Smoking gun’ evidence points to UAE involvement in Sudan civil war

  • A young woman in a colourful headscarf with her face hidden

    ‘They turn our farms into rape centres’: Russian mercenaries accused of abuse in Central African Republic

  • Rights and freedom
    Myanmar junta ‘bombing schools’, with 170 sites hit in past three years – report

  • War is lead cause behind huge drop in global vaccinations, UN warns

  • ‘They live with fear in their stomachs’: increasing violence deepens crisis in Burkina Faso

  • Ten years after a celebrity summit promised to end rape as a weapon of war, is there any change for the women of South Sudan?

June 2024

  • Gabriel Nzaji teaches internally displaced Congolese children the rules of chess rules as part of the Chess in the City initiative at Focus Congo site in Kibati

    Goma games: how chess offers DRC’s displaced children respite from conflict – in pictures

    Chess players from Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are introducing children traumatised by violence to the joys of playing the board game
  • An old woman in a headscarf sits in a tent holding a photograph of a ruined house

    Yazidi survivors of Sinjar massacre alarmed by Iraq’s move to close camps

    A decade after tens of thousands of Yazidis escaped an Islamic State attack many fear return to a home in ruins

    • ‘We need the world to wake up’: Sudan facing world’s deadliest famine in 40 years

    • Rights and freedom
      ‘Know how loved you were’: fathers write to their children from the frontline

    • Rights and freedom
      Battlefield deaths from global conflicts hit 30-year high, study finds

May 2024

  • Fulani families of semi-nomadic herders in a tent

    ‘I pray to you not to shoot us’: Mali’s Fulani herders languish in camps after violence – in pictures

    After old rivalries between Dogon farmers and Fulani herders erupted into violence, exacerbated by Islamist rebels, thousands of the semi-nomadic pastoralists have fled to camps in towns, leaving their cherished animals and way of life. Many must beg to survive at sites lacking food and clean water, with no end in sight to the conflict
  • A medic almost off-camera gestures at a child's soft toy lying on a hospital bed amid rubble and wreckage from an airstrike

    Attacks on health workers in conflict zones at highest level ever – report

    More than 2,500 attacks in 2023, including medics killed and clinics bombed, in war zones such as Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine
  • A group of young men carrying a banner showing two soldiers in front of a DRC flag, run through the streets

    ‘Bullet wounds are common’: crime rife in DRC’s rebel-besieged city of Goma

    Robberies, shootings, extortion and rapes have surged since the Rwandan-backed M23 militia cut off the eastern Congolese capital
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