Olivia Acland

Oct 24, 2024 | service95.com | Olivia Acland |Olivia McCrea-Hedley

City Of Joy Activism, Social Justice | By TW: This article contains mentions of sexual violence and baby loss. In a classroom at City of Joy, a centre that helps survivors of sexual violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, women giggle as they compare sketches of their vaginas. Their homework – to draw themselves – is aimed at shattering stigmas around sex organs.

Aug 25, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Olivia Acland

A fire burns in Ashkelon, Israel after rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip Credit: Amir Cohen/Reuters In the early hours of Sunday Aug 25 Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed group in Lebanon, launched more than 300 rockets into Israel. The group said the attack represented the “first phase” of its response to Israel’s assassination of a senior Hezbollah commander, Fuad Shukur, in Beirut in July. Israel, which claimed to have struck first in an attempt to thwart Hezbollah’s large-scale attack,...

Jul 30, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Olivia Acland |Jotam Confino

Israel targeted a senior Hezbollah leader in Beirut on Tuesday in retaliation for a rocket attack that killed 12 children in the Golan Heights over the weekend. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had carried out a targeted strike in Beirut, “on the commander responsible for the murder of the children in Majdal Shams and the killing of numerous additional Israeli civilians”.

Feb 4, 2024 | smartnewsliberia.com | Olivia Acland

By FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE – Zainab – last name withheld – sits in a dimly lit office in the Sierra Leonean capital Freetown, plugs a number into her phone, and inhales sharply. A man picks up after two rings. “I hear you are offering jobs in Lebanon,” the 29-year-old Sierra Leonean social worker tells him. “Life is so hard here, I want to get out.

Nov 29, 2023 | telegraph.co.uk | Olivia Acland |Luke Barratt

Experts fear project could spark ‘new scramble for Africa’ among polluting nations eager to ‘greenwash’ public image Credit: Simon Townsley The United Arab Emirates, host of COP28, is poised to lease millions of hectares of land across Africa in a bid to offset its pollution.