Lindsey Hilsum , International Editor

Now while NATO allies will pledge to bolster military support to Ukraine, Kyiv has declared a day of mourning after yesterday’s Russian missile strike on the country’s leading children’s hospital. 

Matt Frei: The war in Ukraine has featured heavily in the French elections and although the once pro Russian nationalist right of Marine Le Pen has been kept out of power, President Macron’s position as one of Ukraine’s staunchest allies has been weakened. 

Kenya’s President has withdrawn a highly contentious finance bill that triggered deadly protests on Tuesday. 

Today, the United Nations said a record-breaking 117 million were forced to flee their homes last year because of war and persecution.

Extreme situations bring out the best and worst in people, and few situations are more extreme than the war in Sudan.

Ethnic cleansing. Killings. Torture and a looming famine. Millions of people in Sudan are living through a nightmare, since a power struggle between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces plunged the country into a devastating war in April last year – splitting the nation.

Russian troops have been advancing further into northeastern Ukraine, backed by fighter jets, artillery and drones.

The Ukrainian city of Mariupol was the scene of a bitter siege until finally Russia took control of what was left of its destroyed buildings.

There has been a report published into the accusations by Israel that the UN’s Palestinian relief agency, UNRWA, had been infiltrated by members of terrorist organisations in Gaza

Reports are emerging from Gaza that hundreds of bodies have been found buried in a series of mass graves in Khan Younis. More than 60 bodies were discovered today at newly located mass graves inside the courtyard of the city’s Nasser hospital. Palestinian civil defence crews have said they have recovered 210 bodies, some of…

Well the British and American governments both unveiled new packages of sanctions against Iran today, as G7 foreign ministers met in person to agree further action.

What’s happening between Israel, Iran and Hamas may be vexing the international community, but for a full year now another war has been creating what the UN Secretary General today described as a ‘nightmare of hunger and displacement’. The Sudanese civil war is only a year old today but it has already displaced over 8…

Tensions between the two countries have been growing for years.

The UK is almost doubling its aid to Sudan, to £89 million, as the humanitarian crisis there continues to escalate.

Germany called it a pseudo election while the United States claimed it was  “obviously not free nor fair”.