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20 January 2017
Burma
- Leadership Change Looms for Burma’s strongest ethnic armed group, United Wa State Army (UWSA)
- Humanitarian aid allowed to villages of Rohingyas after UN Special Rapporteur visit
- OIC calls upon the UN to intervene in Burma to avoid genocide of Rohingya Muslims
- Missing Kachin pastors have been confirmed to be detained by the Burmese army
- Members of the House of Commons called for a UN Commission of Inquiry into human rights abuses in Rakhine State
Rakhine extremists fire Rohingya houses
Nigeria
- Report suggests the Fulani and pastoral conflict is now the most deadly in Nigeria, above the Boko Haram insurgency
- At least 76 civilians killed after air-strike error in refugee camp in Rann, Borno State
- Eyewitness relives horror of Nigeria air strike
- Three killed in suspected Boko Haram University bombing despite claims from President Muhammadu Buhari that Boko Haram are “on the run, and no longer have a place to hide”
- Nigerian President claims his administration has ‘restored integrity and territory lost during battles with Boko Haram’
- 3920 people killed by Fulani attacks between 2013-2017
Sudan
- 70 civilians killed in Darfur resource conflict
- Obama lifts sanctions on Sudan in his last week in office
South Sudan
- South Sudan’s government has banned international NGOs from operating in the rebel-held Panyijiar County
- Currently 1.83 million internally displaced people and 4.6 million people will need food assistance in the next four months according to World Food Program Report
- Hundreds raped and killed in South Sudan by military groups last July according to UN report
Uganda
- Country dries up as drought hits harder in Karamoja sub-region.