There were seven years’ worth of warning signs. So why have efforts been so slow to prevent sexual abuse at Malakal?
![Women walk past a UN tank inside the inside de POC (protection of civilians site) in Malakal, South Sudan, on March 3rd, 2014. [Andreea Campeanu/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/kIMG_1468-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
There were seven years’ worth of warning signs. So why have efforts been so slow to prevent sexual abuse at Malakal?
![Women walk past a UN tank inside the inside de POC (protection of civilians site) in Malakal, South Sudan, on March 3rd, 2014. [Andreea Campeanu/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/kIMG_1468-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
People are swapping suits for army fatigues, volunteering with the Territorial Defence Forces to fight Russian troops.

Bibiana Martin was 12 years old when she joined the forest rangers. Twenty years later, she is still protecting animals.

We investigate how a project to protect forests ended tragically with the killing of two reporters and a campaigner.
![Members of the army carry the coffins of David Beriain, Roberto Fraile and Rory Young, as they arrive at the Torrejon de Ardoz military airport in Madrid, Spain, on April 30, 2021. They were killed in Burkina Faso while working on a documentary about poaching in the Pama area of the country [EPA-EFE/Fernando Villar]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/h_56861895.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
As violence increases across the country, a survivor of an attack in Solhan gives a harrowing account of the bloodshed.
![In a photo from February 2020, Burkina Faso soldiers patrol aboard a pick-up truck at a camp sheltering Malian refugees, in Dori [Olympia de Maismont/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/000_1OO75U.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
A decade after becoming world’s youngest nation, South Sudan is mired in instability, faced with humanitarian crisis.
![More than eight million people are reliant on aid, according to the UN, while tens of thousands of people still shelter in IDP camps across the country [File: Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/000_9BY8MN.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Months-long investigation uncovers allegations of corruption and reports that the government was bullying aid workers.
![Donors have provided most of South Sudan's healthcare funding for years [File: Alex McBride/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/011A8552-copy.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Raped, ostracised and forced to give up their children – how incest is tearing families apart in Burkina Faso.
![Pauline waits at an orphanage in Yako where she will leave her baby son [Sam Mednick/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/IMG_0512.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Desperate families in the Sahelian country are plagued by a double burden that has left many displaced and destitute.
![Burkina Faso longform [Sam Mednick/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/d7123fba0dca41fd9371009d2cc2b1c8_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
As armed attacks continue in the Sahel, two sisters share their family’s ordeal of kidnapping, death and survival.
![Burkina Faso abduction - [Sam Mednick/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/21102236efdd4ef1a382e5d28c27bfc9_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)