Ebola: mum, dad, uncles, aunts, they really are gone forever
Like unaccompanied minors – not in an airport but in life – they stand there as the Unicef Jeep rolls into the village, silently holding out their nameplates.
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Like unaccompanied minors – not in an airport but in life – they stand there as the Unicef Jeep rolls into the village, silently holding out their nameplates.
There are so many of them they now have a label: Ebola orphans. Here is the story of eight brothers and sisters who lost both parents, a sibling, and were shunned by terrified family and friends.
British actor and director Richard Attenborough, who starred The Great Escape and Jurassic Park, and directed the film Gandhi, dies at the age of 90. Channel 4 News looks back on his words of wisdom.
Two people are arrested for conspiracy to commit Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), following an investigation at London’s Heathrow airport.
Islamic State, which controls of a third of Iraq, orders all girls and women in and around Mosul to undergo female genital mutilation, the UN says – but there are claims the edict is a hoax.
Female genital mutilation used to be a taboo topic. Now attempting to put an end to it is on the prime minister’s to-do list. But how robust can we be in estimating how many women are affected?
The rape and murder of two girls in India show how official words have not translated into action to address issues of sexual violence and poverty, Human Rights Watch tells Channel 4 News.
State schools are turning out “amoral” children who don’t have a “moral compass” says a leading independent school head. Is he right? Here’s what Channel 4 News readers had to say about it.
Lindsey Hilsum was living in the Rwandan capital when the killings began – but it was not before hundreds of thousands of lives were lost that she realised she was witnessing genocide.
It looks like the president has fled, a million people have been displaced and armed militia are patrolling camps of refugees: Central African Republic appears to be deteriorating – and the world waits with baited breath.
Whilst we were all shutting down the shop over Christmas, things went from an already drastic situation in the Central African Republic to levels of unspeakable violence.
After Channel 4 News alerted Unicef to the plight of three-year-old Jacques at a make-shift camp in CAR, he is now being treated for malnutrition and doctors say he is expected to improve.
His mother is dead. His father, listless, appears to have simply given up. We photograph him and give his exact location to Unicef officials. Several hours later they say they’ve lost the picture.
At the Don Bosco Catholic educational institute in Bangui, they frisk you for weapons at the door but still keep finding machetes here.
Tit-for-tat killings, rape, refugees – the Central African Republic has been described as “on the brink of genocide”, so should the international community intervene?