L’Osservatorio monitors the web and other information sources daily to provide in-depth news on the impact of contemporary armed conflicts on civilians.
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.
26 January 2017A Nigerian fighter jet on a mission against Boko Haram made a tactical error and accidentally bombed an IDP camp in Borno
23 January 2017At least 5 people died and more than 15 have been wounded during a shooting in the Blue Parrot club, in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.
25 January 2017Allegations of abuses by the military are pushing the Rohingya ethnic minority away from homeland Rakhine State, Myanmar
10 January 2017A survey by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) found that over two thirds of Syrian refugee children work on the streets in Lebanon six days per week to make money for their families
15 December 2016An airstrike, launched on December 7 and allegedly attributed to the Iraqi forces, killed more than 50 civilians in the ISIS-held city of al-Qaim in Western Iraq.