Satellites show one camp spanning 500,000 square metres near the city of al-Dabba, as tens of thousands seek refuge. Several displacement camps have emerged and are quickly filling with people who fled Sudan’s devastated and largely emptied city of el-Fasher, which the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized in an atrocity-ridden campaign in October. One […]
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Accused, shunned, exiled: The women banished to Ghana’s ‘witch camps’ | Women
Driven out of their homes Belief in witchcraft is deeply entrenched across Ghana, cutting through both rural and urban life, explains John Azumah, the director of the Sanneh Institute in Accra, a research centre, which has long supported survivors of witchcraft accusations and is part of a coalition pressing for legal and social reform. “It’s […]
Palestinians forced from West Bank refugee camps left in limbo as Israeli demolitions go on
Paul AdamsDiplomatic correspondent EPA The 32,000 displaced refugees are demanding that Israeli forces allow them to return to their homes “They punished ordinary people. This is collective punishment.” It’s been more than nine months since 54-year-old Nehaya al-Jundi last saw her home in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nur Shams, in the occupied West Bank, […]