L’Osservatorio monitors the web and other information sources daily to provide in-depth news on the impact of contemporary armed conflicts on civilians.
31 January 2016The deadliest of three attacks by Boko Haram has killed 65 people and injured 136 others in Dalori, a village near the city of of Maiduguri, Nigeria.
2 Nov 2015 Somali refugees return to their home country after struggling to rebuild their lives in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
27 March 2016Arrested female suicide bomber claims to be one of the schoolgirls kidnapped from Chibok in northeast Nigeria two years ago.
27 March 2016 Arrested female suicide bomber claims to be one of the schoolgirls kidnapped from Chibok in northeast Nigeria two years ago.
10 March 2016 A mass grave in the capital Bujumbura was uncovered on the day the United Nations sent in independent experts to assess human rights violations in Burundi.
14 February 2016Civilian casualties hit a new high in 2015, according to the UN 2015 Annual Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict.
9 February 2016 Suicide car bombing leaves 9 people dead and at least 20 injured.
7 April 2016 Human Rights Watch reports that the March 15 Saudi-led coalition airstrike on a Yemeni market was carried out by massive 1 tonne bombs supplied by the United States.
4 April 2016 The two-year long conflict in eastern Ukraine has left around 1.5 million people hungry.
7 April 2016More than 300 workers were kidnapped after an attack by the Islamic State in Syria on a cement factory 50km east of Damascus.
7 April 2016A desperate woman killed her two children and herself after the Islamic State executed her husband, while the humanitarian crisis has left people in Fallujah facing starvation.
29 March 2016 The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb in central Baghdad that killed seven people and wounded 27.