Residents of Pakistan’s Balochistan Province say flooding in August followed by an earthquake in September have been too much to bear, coming as they did just a few years after a devastating cyclone.
Hundreds of northern Malians have been detained by the Malian army since the French military intervention to oust Islamist groups began in January, with many prisoners complaining of suffering torture and abuse and their ill-treatment allegedly proving fatal on two occasions.
In recent years, the legality and civilian casualties of the secretive American drone programme have increasingly been the subject of much discussion. But one question has gone largely unasked: What is the impact of drone warfare on humanitarian work?
Violence and disappearances are increasing in Balochistan, with over 100,000 people fleeing the area in recent years, as the Balochi nationalists continue to push for independence from Pakistan