By AFP team in Gaza with Stuart WhiteIsrael launched an intensified genocidal offensivein Gaza on Saturday aimed at "the defeat of Hamas", with rescuers in the Palestinian territory reporting at least 32 killed by new Israeli strikes.The stepped-up e...

By AFP/Ammar KarimArab leaders meeting Saturday at a summit in Baghdad urged the international community to press for a Gaza ceasefire, as Israel launched an expanded military offensive in the Palestinian territory.In a joint final statement, Arab Le...

By AFPThe UN's rights chief on Friday denounced Israel's sharp escalation of attacks in Gaza -- and an apparent push to permanently displace the population -- as amounting to "ethnic cleansing"."This latest barrage of bombs... and the denial of human...

“I'm Bayan. I've lived 27 years in my beautiful city, Gaza. Today could be my last day here. My family and I refuse to relive the tragedy of the Nakba in 1948; we will not abandon our home. I cannot forgive the world, from the East to the West, for w...

By AFPFew in the giant displacement camps north of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, are enjoying the feasting and festivities they usually reserve for Christmas.Hundreds of thousands of people have fled an advance by M23 rebels, who hav...

By AFPThousands of tiny makeshift shelters hug the road leading north out of Goma, a symptom of the vast humanitarian crisis gripping DR Congo's turbulent east.Since late October, many tens of thousands of people have flocked towards the relative saf...

By AFPNearly 150,000 children displaced by violence in jihadist-torn Mali have no birth certificates and could be denied education as a result, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said on Monday.The children either lost their birth certificates as th...

By AFPRussian occupation authorities in southern Ukraine said Tuesday that tens of thousands more people would be evacuated from the Kherson region amid Kyiv's counter-offensive.The Russian-installed leader of Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, said som...

By AFPAt least 70,000 people have left their homes in Ukraine's southern Kherson province in the space of a week, a Moscow-installed official in the region said Wednesday."I'm sure that more than 70,000 people left in a week since the crossings were...

By AFPIt was pitch black when the waters came, forcingmother Fortune Lawrence and her eight children to jump on a makeshift boat and flee their house.For the past two weeks, they have been living in dire conditions near Ahoada, in Rivers state, in a...

By AFPMore than one million people have been displaced in Myanmar since the military coup last year, the United Nations children's agency has said.The Southeast Asian nation has been in turmoil since the military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's government...

The United Nations has called for an “immediate cease” to attacks by multiple armed groups on civilians in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.Attacks escalated across the east of the country, prompting the UN Security Council to discuss the mat...