Ethiopia
No story has been mentioned as much in the newsletter as the ruinous war in Ethiopia. For almost a year now, civilians have been massacred, raped, forced from their homes and driven to starvation. Today, a harrowing piece from Al Jazeera lays bare what they are enduring. The UN says more than 400,000 people live in famine-like conditions and 1.8 million more are on the brink across the Tigray region.
More here.
Syria
Children are “wasting away” at camps in Syria in which suspected family members of ISIS fighters are living, a report from Save the Children said today. "The scale of the violence, hardship, deprivation and trauma that children living in these camps experience every day cannot be overstated," the report said, adding that foreign governments should repatriate any of their citizens being held in them.
More from Middle East Eye here.
Somalia
A Briton and a Malaysian have been convicted by a military court in Somalia of being members of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab armed group and of working to recruit foreign fighters for the organization. Darren Anthony Byrnes from Britain and Ahmad Mustakim bin Abdul Hamid from Malaysia are the first foreigners to be convicted for membership of the group and both were sentenced to 15 years in prison.
More from VOA here.