#Conflicts

Niger: France starts to pull out its troops. Father Armanino, missionary: “In Niamey, it feels like a great victory over the colonial past (and present)”

After the military coup of July 26 that overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum, Niger’s junta demanded the departure of the French…

Nagorno-Karabakh: EU, €5 million in humanitarian aid. Lenarcic, “prepared to support the thousands who have decided to flee”

Nagorno-Karabakh: Michel (EU), “Azerbaijan’s military actions must be immediately halted”

Grain deal. Cutelli (WFP): “Suspension is pointless shock for 345 million hungry people.”

“We are very concerned about the non-renewal of the grain deal, which allowed food to be exported from Ukrainian ports…

Stop to the grain deal. Beccegato (Caritas): “It would have a serious impact on world hunger.” Calls for mediation and a rethink

“A possible complete and definitive halt to the grain deal would create a huge problem, which is why we must…

Sudan, two months of conflict. Volunteers distribute emergency aid in Khartoum, severe shortages in El Geneina where people are dying

Fighting has been raging for two months and the situation is catastrophic: 2.2 million people have been displaced and at…

Ethiopia. Human Rights Watch: “Ethnic cleansing persists in Tigray region”

On November 2 2022, the Ethiopian federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) signed a ceasefire agreement following…

Sudan: ceasefire fails to hold. Cavalletti (Caritas): “Rampant violence and looting. Hundreds of thousands of refugees on South Sudan border need humanitarian aid”

The one-week ceasefire agreed on May 20 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, failed to hold. Violent clashes and airstrikes resumed in…

Sudan: Borrell (EU), “cease hostilities, respect rights, allow space for dialogue”. Solidarity with the Sudanese population

Yemen. Ferraresi (MSF): “Children are no longer dying from bombs – they are dying from starvation and diarrhoeal diseases”

The de facto truce in Yemen that came into effect in April 2022 is holding, but the conflict, now in…

Ukraine: Borrell (EU), “increased risk of nuclear accident in Zaporizhzhia”