Amy Davis

Human rights advocate | Traveling the world, volunteering on the ground, and documenting forgotten crises. Independent storyteller.

[Amy Davis @borderless124]

The SAF is being investigated for air strikes on markets. For bombing hospitals. For civilian massacres.

Add this to the charge sheet:

Deliberate destruction of water networks serving millions. Contamination of drinking sources. Toxic military waste with no remediation plan. Agricultural collapse across Darfur and Kordofan.

Environmental destruction in war is not collateral damage.

Under international law, it is a war crime.

https://t.co/ZkqsNEZype

[Crisis Group @CrisisGroup]

Wars in the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes, along with a protracted insurgency in the Sahel, have displaced millions and killed thousands. With the African Union struggling to make a mark, a pragmatic approach is needed. https://t.co/BdolQr0ps1

[Amy Davis @borderless124]

In a displacement camp in Dollow, Somalia, the most malnourished children are too weak to cry.

Their mothers fled four consecutive failed rain seasons with nothing but their children. Now a war 3,000km away in Iran has blocked the supply routes carrying the food keeping those children alive.

The Iran war is not a Middle East story.

It is a global child survival story.

https://t.co/7J5fQUHLLi

[HumAngle_ @HumAngle_]

How does a state track men who have left the insurgency but not entered any formal process? How does it distinguish between a deserter seeking anonymity and one rebuilding operational networks elsewhere? How does it protect communities without criminalising everyone who once lived under insurgent rule?

Nigeria has not answered those questions through a coherent national framework. Instead, it improvises.

https://t.co/dCoGIy2XgI

[Amy Davis @borderless124]

In eastern DRC, health workers trying to contain Ebola cannot reach patients. Not because of the virus.

Because armed groups are blocking the roads. 170+ civilians killed in Ituri in May alone. Ebola cases still expanding.

Uganda now reporting cross-border transmission. One country. Two emergencies. Zero adequate response.

[UN News @UN_News_Centre]

Mounting violence in eastern DR Congo is impacting civilians as well as health workers fighting the deadly Ebola outbreak in the region.

That story tops our World News in Brief bulletin for 02 June.

https://t.co/nmLTz8Ue5n

[Amy Davis @borderless124]

The UN said this week: do not forget the Rohingya. That appeal should not have to be made nine years in. 1.2 million people. No right to work. No path home. No adequate funding. Deadliest sea crossings on record. Forgetting is a policy decision. So is remembering.

https://t.co/SMHEbpwNfp

[Amy Davis @borderless124]

Nine years ago, 750,000 Rohingya fled Myanmar in a single month. They are still in Bangladesh. Still in camps. Still waiting.

Now the funding that kept them alive is being cut. And 2025 was the deadliest year on record for Rohingya trying to flee by sea.

Here is what abandonment looks like in real time. 🧵

[Amy Davis @borderless124]

Myanmar remains at war. Return is impossible.

There is no repatriation pathway. No peace process. No timeline. Rohingya refugees are not waiting for a flight home. They are waiting for a world that decides their lives are worth sustaining indefinitely — not just in the immediate aftermath of a massacre that made headlines.

Nine years on. Still waiting.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blocked the promotions of at least seven Navy officers in a move that targeted women and minority officers. https://t.co/1vww7IxOf1

[Amy Davis @borderless124]

Tragic and infuriating.

This isn't just one killing. It's reopening deep wounds about rushed reintegration of repentant insurgents while survivors still grieve and struggle in camps.

Justice for Bulama and real accountability matter not just optics.Tragic and infuriating. A displaced farmer and father of 5, Bulama Ali, was beaten to death in broad daylight near an IDP camp in Maiduguri, Borno State — allegedly by "Hybrids," former Boko Haram terrorists now armed and operating with security forces. He stopped his bicycle to take a call.

They wanted him to move. That was enough. They took him, beat him severely, and dumped him back dead within minutes. His family says doctors confirmed the brutality.

This isn't just one killing. It's reopening deep wounds about rushed reintegration of repentant insurgents while survivors still grieve and struggle in camps. Justice for Bulama and real accountability matter not just optics.

[HumAngle_ @HumAngle_]

The Nigerian authorities have involved some of these deserters in security operations, where they help troops with intelligence gathering, their knowledge of terrorist-held terrain, and even operational activities. The arrangement has remained controversial among many survivors of the conflict and among security analysts.

Now, residents in these communities say their fears have been justified.

https://t.co/COj6tjmhhL

[Amy Davis @borderless124]

5 Ebola survivors discharged in DRC this week. A reason for hope.

Also true this week: 1,000+ suspected cases
246 confirmed dead
Cases confirmed in Uganda.
Suspects tested in Brazil.
No approved vaccine for the Bundibugyo strain
Health centres attacked by grieving communities

Celebrate the survivors. Don't look away from the scale.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

DR Congo celebrates recovery of Ebola survivors https://t.co/DuJyBkauQR

[Amy Davis @borderless124]

@ForeignPolicy Not to mention the lack of care of the people who have fled the conflict

https://t.co/bKQLd05dCm

[Amy Davis @borderless124]

The EU paid Egypt €200 million to manage migration. In return, Egypt has:

1. Deported Sudanese refugees back to an active conflict zone
2. Conducted night raids on refugee homes
3. Forcibly disappeared community leaders
4. Denied legal status to hundreds of thousands

A Sudanese doctor runs a windowless clinic in Cairo. 60 patients a night. He sees 3–4 suicide attempts every single day.

Europe is not solving a refugee crisis. It is paying Egypt to make it invisible.

A generation is being lost to a crisis that cannot even be spoken out loud.

[Amy Davis @borderless124]

@UNOCHA @UNOCHA you need to call out what is playing out in Egypt

https://t.co/bKQLd05dCm

[Amy Davis @borderless124]

The EU paid Egypt €200 million to manage migration. In return, Egypt has:

1. Deported Sudanese refugees back to an active conflict zone
2. Conducted night raids on refugee homes
3. Forcibly disappeared community leaders
4. Denied legal status to hundreds of thousands

A Sudanese doctor runs a windowless clinic in Cairo. 60 patients a night. He sees 3–4 suicide attempts every single day.

Europe is not solving a refugee crisis. It is paying Egypt to make it invisible.

A generation is being lost to a crisis that cannot even be spoken out loud.

[Amy Davis @borderless124]

The EU paid Egypt €200 million to manage migration. In return, Egypt has:

1. Deported Sudanese refugees back to an active conflict zone
2. Conducted night raids on refugee homes
3. Forcibly disappeared community leaders
4. Denied legal status to hundreds of thousands

A Sudanese doctor runs a windowless clinic in Cairo. 60 patients a night. He sees 3–4 suicide attempts every single day.

Europe is not solving a refugee crisis. It is paying Egypt to make it invisible.

A generation is being lost to a crisis that cannot even be spoken out loud.

[Amy Davis @borderless124]

60+ strikes. 9 months. The US military has been bombing speedboats off the coast of Colombia and Ecuador killing anyone on board, asking questions never. They call it a drug war. Coastal communities call it a massacre of fishermen.

https://t.co/UQDH0nVAfr

[HumAngle_ @HumAngle_]

Nigeria has launched the Safe Schools Initiative, abandoned it, relaunched it, underfunded it, and handed it to security agencies with very little to show for it. The children abducted from schools in Borno and Oyo are paying the price for over a decade of announcements without delivery.

https://t.co/NFyO83Eq3g

[Amy Davis @borderless124]

Ebola spreads along the lines of who does the caring. Who nurses the sick? Women. Who washes the bodies of the dead? Women. Who works the frontlines of health facilities with no PPE? Women. During the 2018-2019 DRC outbreak, women and girls were two-thirds of all Ebola cases. The current outbreak is worse. The gear is gone. The funding was cut.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Women in eastern DR Congo are disproportionately impacted by Ebola as shortages of protective gear amid funding cuts accelerate the spread of disease.

Al Jazeera’s @ImogenKimber reports how these caregivers to the living and the dead are most at risk.