According to the U.N., 2.5 million people have already been forced from their homes by the war in Sudan, with about 80% of those people being internally displaced.
Myanmar’s junta authorities have arrested 10 workers from Yangon region for incitement to riot, state-controlled newspapers reported Thursday.
Japan has accepted some 2,300 Ukrainians under the status of evacuees since the conflict in their country began. For a country that welcomed 74 refugees from all across the world in 2021, this is an unprecedented number.
More than 100 Kenyan traders are suing the government, saying that Chinese-owned companies are illegally undercutting their prices. Many Kenyan consumers are, however, pleased with the competitive prices.
Telegram is becoming the messaging platform of choice for fans of Myanmar’s junta, who are using it to report on critics – some of whom have gotten arrested or even killed.
Mina Akbari is again working as a journalist after fleeing Taliban rule in Afghanistan. She is reporting for diaspora media from her new home in Pakistan.
The city of Annapolis in Maryland still honors the people who killed at the Capital Gazette newspaper five years after the single worst attack on U.S. media in history.VOA’s Cristina Caicedo Smit has this report.
Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo launched a program on Tuesday to provide remedies to victims of human rights violations during some of the darkest chapters in the nation’s history.
Drug production and usage is on the rise in Myanmar in the aftermath of the military coup, ethnic rebel groups and activists said Monday, as countries around the world observed International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
According to a recent study, India’s development is at risk because of the health and economic costs associated with more frequent and intense heat waves.