2023

President Buhari vowed to defeat Boko Haram when elected in 2015. Is north-east Nigeria safe now?

On 24 February, people across Ukraine awoke to the sounds of sirens and explosions as Russia began a military offensive. As war and conflict impact… Read More »In Focus: War in Ukraine is a crisis for women and girls

Protesters in Iran marched through the streets of multiple cities overnight in the most widespread demonstration in weeks amid the monthslong unrest that’s gripped the… Read More »Iran sees first unrest in weeks as protesters mourn executed men

Bulgarian authorities said Friday they had found 18 migrants dead in an abandoned truck, as the Balkan nation struggles with an increase in illicit border… Read More »Bulgarian police find 18 people dead in abandoned truck carrying migrants

Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv put up a fierce resistance when Moscow’s forces launched their full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022. Russian troops eventually withdrew… Read More »Kharkiv’s year of war: ‘A bomb can fall on your home any time – and your life is over’

On February 16, 2023 thousands of Iranians once again took to the streets to protest against the Iranian regime, on a scale not seen in… Read More »Woman, Life, Freedom’ revolution: Ongoing protests in Iran five months after Amini’s death

A French court on Friday found three members of a far-right French group guilty of conspiring to prepare an act of terrorism in a trial… Read More »French court convicts far-right militants over Macron assassination plot

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky called for “speed of decisions” in an address to the Munich Security Conference on Friday as world leaders gathered to renew… Read More »Live: Zelensky opens Munich conference with spotlight on arms supplies to Kyiv

The Munich Security Conference opens on Friday, bringing world leaders together ahead of the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as Kyiv steps up… Read More »Weapons for Ukraine tops agenda at Munich Security Conference

A third inquiry into the death of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda 50 years ago could shed new light on whether he was poisoned by political… Read More »Chile awaits results of new report on Neruda’s mysterious death