London, United Kingdom// — Angolan women and children displaced by drought into Namibia face serious human rights abuses arising from a lack of safe and legal migration pathways for people forced across borders by natural disasters, Amnesty International said in a new report.
New York, United States of America// — Tom Fletcher, the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, stressed today that we cannot respond incrementally to an epidemic which is now growing exponentially.
New York, United States of America//OCHA reports that despite active conflict and funding shortfalls, humanitarian organisations continue to deliver life-saving assistance across Sudan.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia// — The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, has strongly condemned the use of violence and any attempt to seize power by force in Nigeria.
Africa is a continent where the history of people and events has always been left unrecorded, creating a situation for these individuals and occurrences to be either forgotten or reviled without proof.
New York, United States of America//Several women were killed, including by current or former partners, in Cameroon between August 6 and 26, some in the presence of their children.
South Africa// — Zambian authorities suddenly closed and cordoned off the courts without credible explanation on August 24, 2026, effectively blocking the filing of any legal challenges to the results of the August 13 presidential election, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should immediately allow the courts to reopen.
Sudan// — Nearly 39,000 children fled to the city of El Obeid in North Kordofan, Sudan, over the first six months of the year, escaping violence and attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure that have uprooted families across the state, Save the Children said.
As Zambia approaches its general election on August 13, 2026, the Net Rights Coalition, a network of Internet freedom activists exchanging knowledge and experiences to defend digital rights, urges the government to uphold and advance these rights.
/ — “Ebola feeds on delay, fear and hunger,” said Carl Skau, acting Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP). “Stopping this outbreak requires all hands on deck and communities at the centre.”
