BrainCan - conflict and development

climate change lights the touchpaper on terror -...

Warming has been the ultimate threat multiplier’ in fragile countries,fuelling clash and...

un accused of shocking lack of action over murder...

MSF criticises ‘total and utter failure’ of UN peacekeeping mission to halt systematic...

a life of escaping conflict: i dont feel like a...

In Tanzania’s Nyarugusu camp,Ndayishimiye – who has spent 25 years in nearly perpetual...

meet gino strada, unsung hero to the poorest...

The surgeon has carried out 30000 operations in clash zones such as Sudan,Cambodia and Afghanistan,...

when will the un be held to account for failing to...

Without robust mechanisms to examine failures within its peacekeeping missions in South Sudan and...

south sudan: a level of human suffering i have...

Children are paying the highest price for 22-month clash that has displaced millions of people and...

conflict deepens dangers and worsens exclusion for...

Our study in Nigeria found disabled women and girls are at higher risk of gender violence....

uk appears to put weapons sales above lives of...

Save the Children report says Britain ‘gives the impression that diplomatic relations and arms...

selling somalia: we need indomitable investors,...

Somalia may be wracked by clash,politically fragile and braced for potentially devastating floods,...

peacekeepers accused of sexual abuse should face...

Former UN rapporteur on violence against women calls for determined commitment to investigate peace...

india warned plan to deport rohingya refugees will...

Move to expel illegal immigrants will exacerbate devout tensions and prove ‘legally,procedurally...

bullets banish books in south sudan as education...

Slim progress on education is set back as soldiers requisition school buildings and fighting forces...

what causes conflict and how can it be resolved? -...

From the alert availability of weapons to the marginalisation of women,many factors can push a...

the women who put their lives on the line for...

When sectarian conflict wrought division in Boda,women in the southern Central African town formed a...

syrian children pushed to the brink after worst...

Unprecedented number of children maimed,killed and recruited for combat roles in 2016, says Unicef...

un report: south sudan allowed soldiers to rape...

Scale of atrocities committed by both sides laid bare in report,including allegations of torture,...

polline akello: joseph kony commanded someone to...

Abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army at 12,Polline Akello was feared dead by her parents. Yet...

south sudan food crisis leaves people of ganyiel...

In a country where clash has left nearly 2 million people displaced,the town of Ganyiel offers...

victor ochen: nobel prize nomination is already a...

A haunting visit to a Ugandan hospital left Victor Ochen wanting to assist young people whose...

gloves not guns: fighting the good fight in rios...

After Alan Duarte lost nine of his male relatives to violence,he set up a boxing academy to help...

un camp in south sudan: there were far too many...

Among the 100000 people seeking shelter from war and atrocities at the UN’s Bentiu base,children...

chibok: for over one year, our children havent...

The closing of Chibok school after Boko Haram’s kidnap of 276 girls last year has had a...

boko haram violence leaves nigeria with highest...

Boko Haram violence underpins rising death rates among Nigerian citizens,while thousands also killed...

myanmar: footage reveals scorched earth campaign...

Government accused of systematic strategy in Rakhine state as Rohingya claim soldiers torched their...

germanys deadliest company pledges to stop selling...

Heckler & Koch,whose weapons have killed 2 million people, vows to cessation sales to warzones and...

myanmar army allegedly left rohingya refugees with...

Shocking photographic evidence showing children among the injured adds weight to claims that...

mali instability casts long shadow over children...

World Food Programme and Unicef warn that inability to access areas of north amid continued violence...

south sudan civil war inquiry details torture and...

African Union investigation finds evidence of atrocities,including rape and mutilation, committed...

south sudanese refugees in uganda receive generous...

Four years after South Sudan became independent on 9 July 2011,conflict has forced tens of thousands...

now is not the time: violence forces refugees to...

Political rhetoric about country’s safety dismissed after study shows 72% of returnees forced into...

the guardian view on weapons that wait: clear them...

Unexploded munitions,landmines and improvised devices kill thousands of civilians annually. They...

shock tactics: how the arms industry trades on our...

In his book Indefensible – Seven Myths That Sustain the Global Arms Trade,Paul Holden points to...

hundreds of lone burundian children flee to rwanda

Teens and young children are arriving in Rwanda without parents or relatives,among those escaping...

horrific attacks prompt south sudans communities...

Despite a peace deal signed in August,fighting has continued along complex tribal divisions, with...

justice and peace - why we cant have one without...

Tensions between peacemakers and champions of justice are inevitable in societies riven by clash,but...

middle east and north africa unrest has destroyed...

Education in nine states across region disrupted by violence and political upheaval,affecting...

unbridled violence in gambella leaves ethiopia...

Why did a group of South Sudanese people cross the border into western Ethiopia and start shooting...

war could cost syria nearly £1tn in lost economic...

World Vision report says reconstruction strategy vital for when war ends to avoid failures in...

burundi: all alarm signals flashing red warns un...

Allegations of gang rape,torture and mass graves prompt warning from UN human rights chief Zeid...

sudans security forces killed, raped and burned...

Human Rights Watch report catalogues appalling acts carried out by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces...

act of faith: the catholic priest who puts his...

In a predominantly Christian country terrorised by Muslim rebels as recently as January,Father...

myanmar army killing civilians in escalating...

Rights envoy sounds alarm on rising hostilities in state,amid reports of military blocking aid...

fears grow in burundi as executions and desertions...

Murder of senior officers and secret defections weaken security forces that once symbolised national...

tensions run high as rebels return to south sudans...

Uneasy progress towards peace in South Sudan as opposition troops arrive in Juba ahead of Riek...

give women a real chance to build peace | glenys...

Women excel at peacebuilding,and at supporting survivors of sexual violence in conflict. It’s time...

afghanistan gunmen torch un food trucks in latest...

World Food Programme distribution suspended in northern province after five vehicles ambushed by...

facing snakes, scorpions - and fear of attack - on...

A 728km trek on treacherous bush roads from Garissa to the Ethiopian border aims to promote peace in...

before my brother died, i had dreams : the kabul...

Once the family breadwinner,Hossein Panahi was among 150 people who died when a bomb ripped through...

time was running out: honduran activists last days...

Berta Cáceres,the environmental advocate shot dead in her domestic in March, told friends of a...

south sudan: msf workers among 18 people dead in...

Fighting at UN base in Malakal leaves 18 dead,including two workers from Médecins Sans Frontières,...

south sudan should be hit with arms embargo over...

President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar qualify to be sanctioned over acts of violence...

landmines dont know when war is over. they...

Visiting a minefield in Cambodia brought domestic to the James Bond actor how fortunate most of us...

poverty driving syrian men and boys into the arms...

Poverty,desperation and the desire for revenge – more than devout motivation – are pushing...

i was a child soldier. now i m pushing for more...

Abducted at 12,I was raped and my baby died before I was lucky enough to escape. At first I do my...

women must be at the peace table for a chance of...

Research shows including women in the peace process means a much greater likelihood of reaching...

syrian refugees: four million people forced to...

Largest exodus from a single clash in a generation places humanitarian system under increasing...

un demands protection for war zone hospitals after...

The UN adopts a resolution to protect healthcare in clash,days after 55 people died in a hospital...

from landmines to improvised bombs, weapons impair...

Unexploded devices that injure civilians in clash and post-clash zones are a barrier to a better...

from improvised explosives tp landmines, weapons...

Unexploded devices that injure civilians in clash and post-clash zones are a barrier to a better...

south sudans youth mama choir hits the right note...

Amid the political discord of South Sudan,a celebrated church choir is using music to transcend...

burundi in economic turmoil as unrest triggers...

Surge in bank withdrawals sends economy into sharp downward spiral as Burundians flee violence and...

yemen conflict: sick and wounded left to suffer as...

Doctors forced to turn away patients as airstrikes compound acute shortage of medication,supplies...

we have no home to go back to: citizens of mosul...

With Islamic State expelled from Mosul after a prolonged siege,residents who joined the...

it only takes one terrorist : the buddhist monk...

Critics of Ashin Wirathu and his denim-clad disciples say the monk incites racial violence against...

turning bombs into spoons - relics of the secret...

US bombing campaigns of the 60s and 70s left a terrible legacy. But more aid for ordnance clearing...

south sudan: the juvenile prison where life is...

For many young offenders in South Sudan,the Wau detention centre is the only alternative to life on...

south sudan: women and girls raped as wages for...

Testimony reveals systematic abduction and abuse of thousands of women and girls as young as 12,held...

no work, no education and little food: the iraqis...

More than 3.5 million people in Iraq are homeless after escaping Islamic state’s campaign of...

i fear myanmar, i dont want to go home: rohingya...

Refugees from Myanmar continue to reach daily at the 20 rapidly expanding camps around Coxs Bazar....

un bases in south sudan are a blessing and a curse

180000 people shelter in six UN sites across South Sudan but,after the Malakal attack, the UN must...

un members criticised for failing to include more...

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka,chief of UN Women, told a security council assembly women were ‘perhaps the...

around lake chad: boko harams legacy of ruin and...

The sun-scorched land around Lake Chad has become home to thousands of people who own fled attacks...

ishmael beah hails south sudans former child...

Despite a Unicef-led education initiative,opportunities beyond the army are limited for...

syrian refugees living in darkness in a derelict...

A disused factory in Saida,with its dangling electricity cables and pools of water, houses as many...

rwandan rebel leaders jailed in germany for war...

After four-year trial hailed a breakthrough by the UN,FDLR head Ignace Murwanashyaka and his deputy...

south sudan peace deal in balance amid opposition...

Riek Machar’s delayed return to Juba threatens to undermine fragile peace agreement as differences...

rules of war need urgent review as civilian deaths...

Germany and Austria urge UN member states to tackle ‘devastating harm’ caused by airstrikes and...

deadly exodus: 123,000 rohingya flee myanmar in...

Aid agencies warn of a growing humanitarian crisis as persecution of the Muslim ethnic minority...

giant rats put noses to work on mozambiques...

Landmine-detecting rats weigh as much as a domestic cat and are light enough to cross terrain...

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