Gaddafi, Mali and the Tuaregs: The law of unintended consequences
Lindsey Hilsum on the links between the conflict in Mali and the demise of Colonel Gaddafi in Libya.
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Lindsey Hilsum on the links between the conflict in Mali and the demise of Colonel Gaddafi in Libya.
An al-Qaeda takeover in northern Mali has sparked an exodus of half a million people. Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum meets some of them as they cross the border to Mauritania.
A journey to the airport becomes a ten and a half hour trek through the desert. Only one plane is missed.
The UN says as many as 30,000 Syrian refugees may have crossed into Lebanon in the last 48 hours to escape the bloody uprising, and Syria’s intelligence chief dies of wounds sustained in a bomb blast.
As the world’s newest country approaches its first anniversary as a nation, South Sudan struggles to cope with a refugee crisis that experienced aid workers say is the worst they have ever seen.
The leader of tens of thousands of refugees from the Blue Nile region of Sudan tells Channel 4 News’ Jonathan Miller of the persecution causing his Ingessena people to flee their homeland.
As Burma’s rulers claim the country is embracing democracy, Asia correspondent John Sparks reports on the perilous attempts of native Rohingya people to seek refuge in Bangladesh.
Channel 4 News Head of Foreign News Ben de Pear blogs on the “perfect storm” of war, geography and the rainy season in crisis-hit South Sudan.
Syria agrees on the terms of a ceasefire monitoring mission which will see more United Nations observers deployed.
The demise of Colonel Gaddafi was a stone cast into a pool – a huge wave rather than a ripple has hit Libya’s neighbour, Mali.
An internet video campaign calling for the arrest of Lords Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony has been viewed 30 million times. Critics have branded the campaign misguided and potentially damaging.
Two British journalists detained in Libya and accused of being spies were reporting on atrocities meted out against black people by the same forces that arrested them.
Refugees who have become separated from family during war and disasters can now use a mobile phone web service to try to find them again. Around 200,000 refugees are expected to use the site.
The head of the United Nation’s refugee agency describes the drought in Somalia as the “worst humanitarian disaster” in the world and urges Kenya to build more camps, after touring the region.
The mass exodus of starving Somali refugees is becoming an unbearable crisis as aid agencies launch an emergency appeal to help millions facing the worst east African drought in decades.