Since April 2023, Sudan’s army has been battling the Rapid Support Forces, which was once its own paramilitary fighting wing, for control of the country. The violence has killed up to 150,000 people by some estimates, injured tens of thousands more, and displaced more than 14 million Sudanese both within and beyond the country. And in the midst of the fighting, perpetrators from both sides of the conflict have been engaged in systemic acts of sexual violence that the head of a United Nations fact-finding mission recently described as “staggering” in scale, likely amounting to a war crime and a crime against humanity.
However, the impediments to investigating rape during conflict are significant, and they can obstruct successful prosecutions in both local and international courts. For most survivors of conflict-related sexual violence in Sudan, justice remains elusive.
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Rio Tinto is facing a likely lawsuit in an English court brought by the UK-based law firm Leigh Day on behalf of people living in villages near a mine in Madagascar.
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Right-wing American Christian groups that oppose sexual and reproductive rights are significantly increasing their spending in Africa, according to a new data analysis published ahead of a U.S. election, which could prove pivotal to abortion access both inside and outside the country. Research by the nonprofit Institute for Journalism and Social Change (IJSC) found that 17 groups increased their Africa spending by 50% between 2019 and 2022, the most recent year for which data is available. The researchers say the data represents only a handful of Christian Right groups but indicates that they are making an increasingly concerted effort to influence abortion policy internationally as well as domestically.
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For the second time, the IFC is bucking recommendations to offer money as reparations to people hurt at a chain of schools it invested in, Bridge International Academies. Thanks in part to The Intercept’s reporting, the World Bank Board delayed a vote on an IFC action plan that did not include compensation.
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Millions of Sudanese are fleeing a warzone—and exposing the world’s bankrupt response.
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Rio Tinto’s Madagascar Mine Promised Prosperity. It Tainted a Community.
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As Israel’s war against Hamas rages on, Palestinian women bear the heaviest burden.
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Whistleblower: The World Bank Helped Cover Up Child Sex Abuse at a Chain of For-Profit Schools It Funded
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Women helped bring down the country’s Islamist dictator—and are still stuck with fundamentalism.
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She leads a team of 100 at a non-profit with operations across Africa and says climate has been seen through a male perspective for too long.
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