L’Osservatorio monitors the web and other information sources daily to provide in-depth news on the impact of contemporary armed conflicts on civilians.
17 May 2017At least 6 people have been killed in a terrorist attack, which took place in a national television and radio station in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
7 May 2017More than two million children have been displaced in South Sudan, according to UNICEF and UNHCR.
21 June 2017A suicide attack, carried out by the extremist group Islamic State, has targeted families reunited for the daily breaking of fast during Ramadan.
17 June 2017Since the end of April, the hygienic conditions in the country are worsening as 923 people have died because of Cholera.
14 June 2017The first attacks committed by ISIS in Iran leave at least 13 dead and over 40 injured.
14 June 2017Hundreds of migrants and refugees on their way to Europe are being captured, held and enslaved in Libya.
7 June 2017On April 3rd, the South Sudanese town of Pajok was attacked by armed forces, leading to more than 6,000 people fleeing from South Sudan into Uganda.
29 May 2017A monitoring group reported of a car bomb that killed five people in Homs and of an explosion near Damascus.
7 June 2017The recent conflict between the Philippine army and local radical Islamic factions cause many deaths and at least 180,000 people to flee.
24 May 2017Miriam Rodríguez, the founder of Our Disappeared, has been killed in her house by a man, probably belonging to Los Zatos cartel.
31 May 2017On 23 May, aid organisations accused Libyan coastguard officers of violently interrupting a rescue in the Mediterranean Sea.
17 May 2017The informal system of shelter ownership in refugee camps in Kenya fosters entrepreneurship and self-reliance, but also corruption.