Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Tehran Metro Tragedy: Young Armita Geravand Passes Away

Tehran Metro Tragedy: Young Armita Geravand Passes Away

Armita Geravand, in a coma after an alleged altercation with morality police, has died. Armita, 16, collapsed on a Tehran metro train on October 1. Activists claimed police assaulted her for not wearing a hijab, authorities said she fainted. An Iranian teenager who slipped into a coma following an alleged altercation with morality police earlier … Read more

MSF suspends operations in northwest Burkina Faso after armed men kill two staff

Burkina Faso murder

MSF has halted operations in a region of northwest Burkina Faso. The attack occurred in the Boucle de Mouhoun. MSF has paused its operations in order to better understand the circumstances. Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) announced in a statement that it has halted operations in a region of northwest Burkina Faso where two of its … Read more

Four prison officials killed in anglophone Cameroon

anglophone

Four members of Cameroon’s prisons department, including a regional manager, were allegedly killed in an ambush by armed men in a troubled anglophone region, a senior official told Wednesday. Cameroon’s Northwest and Southwest districts are populated chiefly by anglophones, some of whom feel excluded by the nation’s French-talking greater part. Since 2017, separatists seeking self-rule … Read more