L’Osservatorio monitors the web and other information sources daily to provide in-depth news on the impact of contemporary armed conflicts on civilians.
20 June 2022
Thanks to the resolution of the 20-year-long conflict in Côte d’Ivoire and the cessation of the refugee status, former refugees are going back home
1 June 2022
In the last few weeks, the continuous conflict in the DRC has caused more than 72.000 displaced people in the Eastern part of the country.
15 June 2022
In the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the massive use of banned mines alarmingly endangers civilians.
14 June 2022
Deadly explosion in mosque is one of many suspected religiously motivated violent attacks in recent months
6 June 2022
According to the UN Security Council, reports of sexual violence by Russian Forces in Ukraine are increasing in an alarming way.
3 June 2022
Two Egyptian Peacekeepers of the UN Mission in Mali, MINUSMA, were killed on Friday due to an improvised explosive device.
31 May 2022
Human Rights Watch: the Wagner Group, apparently linked to the Russian government, placed landmines and booby traps in Libya
On Tuesday Russia took control of most of Sievierodonetsk city in the Eastern part of Ukraine, located in the Oblast of Luhansk.
24 May 2022
African countries are currently suffering the direct effects of the war due to their dependence on Russia and Ukraine’s imports.
30 April 2022
The UN Humanitarian Country Team in Yemen estimates that $4.3 billion is required to prevent a consistent crisis throughout the country
2 May 2022
Around one hundred civilians were evacuated from Azovstal steelworks, Mariupol where they took shelter while U.S. House Speaker Pelosi meets President Zelenskiy in Kyiv
The United Nations is currently working hard to support civilians evacuating from the destroyed city of Mariupol in Ukraine