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Nigeria: Violence follows recent elections
11 Jun 2015
Horrific violence has followed the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari in May, as Boko Haram militants attacked the city of Maiduguri, capital of Nigeria’s north-eastern Borno state and birthplace of the Islamist insurgency group Boko Haram.…
A UN report accuses the Eritrean government of extrajudicial executions, torture, national service and forced labour that create a climate of repression driving many to flee. It catalogues a litany of human rights violations by the…
Global corruption – not just FIFA
04 Jun 2015
The following comes from Radio 4’s Thought for the Day earlier this week. FIFA’s problems are part of global issues. Corruption conjures up images of people getting rich. But corruption often produces more poverty than wealth.…
Burundi: It's enough to make you cry
04 Jun 2015
The following is from a missionary working in Burundi: ‘I'm sitting in a café having a snatched lunch alone, and I'm crying. Our teams on the frontline urgently need more resources to help save lives. The…
Afghanistan: News from a missionary
04 Jun 2015
‘Daily we receive reports of more atrocities, higher death tolls, repeated attacks on NGOs and guest-houses with foreigners as victims. Pray that this spring offensive may soon come to an end and that the whole Taliban…
According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights a Syrian Christian fighter from the Syriac Military Council beheaded a militant of Islamic State in northwest Syria as revenge for the terror group’s violence against the…