Last week in the East Asia Pacific region, fighting broke out between the military and local defense forces in central Myanmar. Anti-coup protests marking Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s 77th birthday on 19 June were reported in Kachin state, as well as in Yangon, Mandalay, Sagaing, and Tanintharyi regions.…
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Last week in South Asia and Afghanistan, the Islamic State (IS) attacked Taliban forces and targeted a Sikh temple in Kabul city in Afghanistan. Taliban forces continued to clash with the National Resistance Front (NRF); Taliban infighting also took place across the country, as did clashes with the forces of a former Taliban commander in Sar-e Pol province.…
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Weekly reports on the latest conflict developments in Mozambique and Ethiopia are made available by the Cabo Ligado and Ethiopia Peace Observatory projects, respectively.
Last week, an airstrike in Burkina Faso struck an artisanal mining site leaving numerous civilian fatalities; militia-related violence increased in Kaduna state of Nigeria; Sudan accused Ethiopian military forces of killing Sudanese soldiers; and the March 23 Movement increased offensives in the Democratic Republic of Congo.…
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About half the world's population live in an area of active or latent conflict, and few corners of the planet are not feeling the effects of climate change
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Russia continued to focus resources on Severodonetsk last week as part of a push to establish control over the Luhansk region. The Russian military blew up the bridge connecting Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, complicating the resupply of Ukrainian forces and the evacuation of civilians (The Telegraph, 12 June 2022).…
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Last week in South America, state forces killed a high-ranking dissident of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Colombia. In Chile, Indigenous militias blocked highways in the Araucanía region and carried out arson attacks in the Araucanía and Biobío regions.…
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Demonstration levels spiked in both the United States and Canada last week. In Canada, labor and environmental demonstrations were held across the country. In the United States, the rise in demonstration activity was largely attributable to hundreds of ‘March for Our Lives’ events held nationwide to call for federal gun control legislation.…
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Last week in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, gang warfare intensified in Mexico, Haiti, and Jamaica, while violence against civilians increased in Puerto Rico. In Mexico, disputes between criminal groups led to the killing of six chicken farm workers in Guerrero state, and drove increases in attacks against civilians in Chihuahua and San Luis Potosí states.…
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Last week in the Middle East, political violence decreased in Yemen after it reached its highest levels since the start of the UN-mediated truce the week prior. In Iraq, state forces increased counter-Islamic State (IS) activity.…
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