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In war-torn Sudan, rape is likely being used as a weapon of war and simply being a woman there is “a strong predictor” of hunger, violence and death, the UN’s gender equality agency warned on Tuesday. UN Africa News Read More

Africa

Mali TikTok influencer killed after posts supporting military

November 11, 2025 Village ReporterAfricaglobalvillage, africanews

Armed men in Mali killed a TikTok influencer who had posted videos in support of the West African nation’s military, authorities said Monday.Sourced from Africanews Read More

Africa

Protesters in Nigeria disrupt opening of major West African art museum

November 11, 2025 Village ReporterAfricaglobalvillage, africanews

Protesters in Nigeria have disrupted this week’s opening of a major museum of West African art, where local disputes over the world-renowned Benin Bronzes have already kept them from being put on display.Sourced from Africanews Read More

Africa

Sudan: 89,000 civilians have fled El Fasher

November 10, 2025 Village ReporterUN Africa News

The UN aid coordination office (OCHA) on Monday warned of a deepening crisis in Sudan’s North Darfur as violence spreads beyond the city of El Fasher. UN Africa News Read More

Africa

Refugee camps set to be uninhabitable by 2050 as extreme weather worsens

November 10, 2025 Village ReporterUN Africa News

At least 117 million people have been displaced by war, violence and persecution, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Monday, while highlighting how much their plight is tied to the growing climate crisis. UN Africa News Read More

Africa

Nigeria: NDLEA arrests suspected drug kingpin at Lagos Airport

November 10, 2025 Village ReporterAfricaglobalvillage, africanews

Nigeria’s anti-narcotics agency has arrested a 40-year-old man described as a “notorious drug lord” at Lagos’ Murtala Mohammed International Airport as he prepared to board a flight to Saudi Arabia for Umrah.Sourced from Africanews Read More

Human Rights

‘Worrying reports’ continue of abductions and disappearances in Syria

November 8, 2025 Village Reporterhuman rights

Nearly 100 people in Syria have been abducted or forcibly disappeared since January, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday, calling for greater accountability from the authorities. Source UN News Read More

Pacific

Holding on to home, as the ocean engulfs the Solomon Islands

November 8, 2025 Village ReporterAsia News

Morning light spreads over Sikaiana, a remote atoll in the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific where the ocean both sustains life and threatens it. Source UN News Read More

Human Rights

World News in Brief: Russian rights abuses in Ukraine, US a no-show for rights review, Orlando Blooms highlights Rohingya plight

November 8, 2025 Village Reporterhuman rights

Independent UN human rights investigators have heard first-hand accounts of torture, unlawful detention and the forced transfer of civilians during their first visit to Ukraine in more than a year. Source UN News Read More

Africa

Scientists race to recover vital natural archive from rapidly melting glaciers

November 7, 2025 Village ReporterAfricaglobalvillage, africanews

Since 2000, the world has lost more than 7 trillion tons of ice from mountain glaciers. Scientists are racing to recover vital information from the natural archives they store before it’s too late.Sourced from Africanews Read More

TRENDS

Sudan war: Women endure starvation, rape and bombs fleeing El Fasher

Mali TikTok influencer killed after posts supporting military

Protesters in Nigeria disrupt opening of major West African art museum

Sudan: 89,000 civilians have fled El Fasher

Refugee camps set to be uninhabitable by 2050 as extreme weather worsens

Nigeria: NDLEA arrests suspected drug kingpin at Lagos Airport

‘Worrying reports’ continue of abductions and disappearances in Syria

Holding on to home, as the ocean engulfs the Solomon Islands

World News in Brief: Russian rights abuses in Ukraine, US a no-show for rights review, Orlando Blooms highlights Rohingya plight

Scientists race to recover vital natural archive from rapidly melting glaciers