Jens Laerke

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Ethiopian refugees who fled fighting in Tigray province in a hut at the Um Rakuba camp in Sudan’s eastern Gedaref province. Photograph: Ebrahim Hamid/AFP via Getty
‘Full-scale’ humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ethiopia – UN

A major humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Ethiopia, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday, with more than 27,000 people now having fled (...)

A part of the building of Anglicana Comunhao church is broken by strong cyclone which hit in Beira, Mozambique, on March 20, 2019. Photograph:Yasuyoshi CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images
Aid workers scramble to rescue more African cyclone victims

Rescue workers plucked more survivors from trees and roofs to safety on Thursday, a week after a cyclone ripped through southern Africa and triggered(...)

A damaged mosque near the Talise beach in Palu city, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photograph: Hotli Simanjuntak/EPA-EFE
Indonesian earthquake and tsunami death toll rises to over 1,200

Indonesia is in a race against time to save victims of the earthquake and tsunami on Sulawesi island, the government said on Tuesday, as the official(...)

Smoke rises from the rebel-held enclave of eastern Ghouta, Syria on Tuesday, where a United Nations-sponsored ceasefire has failed to take hold. Photograph: /AFP/Getty Images
Fighting resumes in eastern Ghouta despite ‘humanitarian pause’

Air strikes and rocket fire continued into the night on Tuesday, after a five-hour lull ordered by Vladimir Putin failed to provide aid to the rebel-h(...)

Syrian residents fleeing the conflict that has so far taken some 400,000 lives, displaced 11 million people and left much of Syria ravaged beyond all recognition. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Syrian government forces set to regain control of Aleppo

Syrian government forces were poised to retake control of Aleppo on Tuesday night after years of bombardment and a four-month siege in the rebel(...)

A Kurdish Peshmerga soldier relaxes in Bartella, a village recaptured from Islamic State during the battle to retake Mosul, on Tuesday. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images
Isis ‘using human shields’ as coalition advances on Mosul

Residents of Mosul said Islamic State was using civilians as human shields as Iraqi and Kurdish forces captured outlying villages in their advance on (...)

A Syrian man carries a baby after removing him from the rubble of a destroyed building following a reported air strike in the Qatarji neighbourhood of Aleppo on Wednesday. Photograph: Ameer Alhalbi/AFP/Getty Images
Dozens killed in overnight strikes on rebel-held Aleppo

Warplanes mounted the heaviest air strikes in months against rebel-held districts of the city of Aleppo overnight, as Russia and the Syrian government(...)