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Sudan’s death toll in 2025 could be as high as 100,000: how we did the count

Estimates of the number of people directly killed in Sudan’s civil war vary widely, in part because counting casualties in active conflict zones is extremely difficult. In 2025, for instance, one conflict monitoring organisation reported around 19,000 direct deaths from political violence across Sudan. Other research teams put the toll…

The Conversation · 2h ago

Al-Qaida and IS-linked violence in Africa’s Sahel belt set to hit record levels this year

Twenty-five years after 9/11, figures compiled by conflict monitor underline how Sahel region has become centre of Islamist terror

The Guardian - UK · Sep 16

Colombia’s cocaine-funded militias turn to drones as far-right president launches all-out war

IN FOCUS: Caught in the crossfire of an increasingly violent internal war are the civilians living around Colombia’s primary cocaine trafficking routes in northern and western areas of the country. Alex Croft reports

The Independent UK · Sep 13

Renewed fighting in Tigray raises risk of a wider regional war

A recent flare-up in tensions in Ethiopia's Tigray, including reports of heavy artillery battles and drone strikes, has raised fears of a return to war in the northern state – a conflict potentially stoked by foreign nations.

Radio France Internationale · Aug 14

Civilian killings on the rise in Myanmar

Myanmar’s military has sharply escalated attacks on civilians since a new administration took office in the war-torn country, a conflict monitor said on Monday, even as regional governments ramp up diplomatic engagement.

Bangkok Post · Jul 28

Myanmar military escalates civilian killings, monitor warns, amid diplomatic push

Myanmar's military has intensified attacks on civilians since a new administration took office. Specialized jet fighter groups are conducting sustained airstrikes against single targets. The military's tactics show shifting modalities of civilian repression rather than reduction. Diplomatic engagement is increasing with regional governments and neighboring countries.

The Economic Times · Jul 27

Trump considers military strikes in Mali — which would be the 8th country he’s attacked this term

The administration is reportedly mulling a campaign against al-Qaeda-linked JNIM in the junta-controlled country

The Independent UK · Jul 22

‘It was a massacre’: Haiti gangs carry out mass killings across the country

The Guardian has found evidence of a massacre that left at least 70 civilians dead as the country’s security forces struggle to control even the main roads to the capital

The Guardian - UK · Jul 2

More than 100,000 killed in Myanmar since 2021 coup, monitor says

Since a 2021 coup ousted Myanmar's democratically elected government and triggered a civil war, 100,114 people have been killed across the country, according to a report by monitoring group Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED) released Wednesday.

France 24 · Jul 1

Fears grow for civilians as paramilitary group closes in on strategic Sudanese city

Paramilitary attacks on a city of a half-million people in Sudan have raised international alarm that mass violence against civilians might follow

The Independent UK · Jun 24