Category: 2. Palestine

A car bomb in northern Syria’s Manbij killed at least 18 women and one man, most of them agricultural workers. The area is contested between the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and Turkish-backed Syrian National Army.

On a road west of Goma, the largest city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Mary Ashuza and her children walked, carrying their last remaining belongings with them.

Ashuza, a farmer and mother of five in her 40s, fled to North…

This article was originally published in The Guardian.

By Nizam Mamode

I had never imagined, when working as a professor of transplant surgery at a large teaching hospital in London, that one day I would find myself operating on an…