{"id":36638,"date":"2026-06-09T19:01:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=36638"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:01:03","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:01:03","slug":"global-conflicts-hit-highest-level-since-world-war-ii-report","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/global-conflicts-hit-highest-level-since-world-war-ii-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Global conflicts hit highest level since World War II: Report \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world is experiencing the highest number of state conflicts since the end of the Second World War, according to a sobering new study by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The institute&#8217;s annual Conflict Trends report revealed that a record 65 conflicts involving at least one government were active over the past year. Along with the spike in active battlefields, the report issued a stark warning regarding a surge in deliberate attacks targeting civilian populations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The human toll of this global instability has been catastrophic, with more than 245 000 deaths reported as a direct result of active fighting or political violence in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to PRIO&#8217;s data, Africa remains the region most heavily impacted by these state-driven conflicts, followed by Asia, and then the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8490,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-36638","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The world is experiencing the highest number of state conflicts since the end of the Second World War","published_date":"2026-06-09 18:55:57","news_description":"The world is experiencing the highest number of state conflicts since the end of the Second World War","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36639,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36638\/revisions\/36639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=36638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}