The attacks against aid agency workers in western Sudan reached new levels of violence, putting in danger vital relief operations in the region of Darfur, Ameerah Haq, Humanitarian Resident Representative of the United Nations Organization in the Sudan, declared yesterday

11.02.2008
Many are saying that it is racist or simplistic to claim that Kenya's recent political riots are tribal. They say that the problems go beyond tribal to employment, land, and water resources. The reason why there are problems with employment, land, and water resources is because of tribal enmity and hatred where the dominant tribe prevents equal opportunity to the other tribes.

29.01.2008
Children and women have been the main victims of violence in Kenya, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), which is calling attention to growing sexual violence and seeking resources to fight it.

20.01.2008
In the next-to-last week of 2007, one more international organization focused attention on the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (RDC), a country that experienced a civil war from 1998 and whose end happened “officially” in 1994. Doctors Without Borders (MSF), an organization that works principally in the area of health with countries in situations of intense social, political and ethnic conflict, highlighted in its year-end report a list of 10 humanitarian crises that lack the proper attention of the international media.