L’Osservatorio monitors the web and other information sources daily to provide in-depth news on the impact of contemporary armed conflicts on civilians.
16 May 2017Since its insurgence in 2009, the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram has committed numerous attacks in Nigeria killing more than 20,000 people.
7 May 2017On Saturday May 6th, Boko Haram released 82 schoolgirls in exchange for five militant leaders.
15 May 2017On the 4th of May, three delegates from Russia, Turkey and Iran have signed an agreement to extend the ceasefire and set up four areas for de - escalation.
13 April 2017After more than thirty years of receiving refuge in Pakistan, pressure was put on Afghan refugees to return to their war-torn homeland.
18 April 2017The UN Human Rights Council warns that there is a concrete risk of ethnic cleansing in South Sudan.
9 May 2017On April 10, at least 16 civilians died as a result of violence perpetrated by government troops in the city of Wau, in South Sudan.
17 April 2017On Tuesday 21 March 2017 at least six people were killed and a dozen were injured by a suicide car bomb in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
13 April 2017On Monday 13 March 2017 a car bomb exploded near a hotel on the busy Maka al Mukaram street in Mogadishu, killing and injuring many civilians.
5 May 2017On March 8, at least 26 people, including many children, were killed by two suicide bombs at a wedding party in a village in the north of Iraq.
18 April 2017The latest use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government has claimed the lives of at least 58 civilians, renewing calls for the destruction of the country’s chemical arsenal.
27 April 201712 months after the country’s first democratic presidential election the Central African Republic is still torn apart by a conflict began in 2013
25 April 2017Reports from several international organisations point to an alarmingly rising number of incidents of looting, beatings, rapes and gang rapes against civilians.