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Civilians in Mali suffered serious abuses carried out by Islamic militants and the Malian armed forces and their allies during attacks across the West African country earlier this year, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Monday. The report documented the killings of civilians and burning of...

Six people who were found “abandoned by the roadside” in Kenya allege that they were “beaten” and subjected to “torture” after they were arrested during a memorial gathering for protesters killed in 2024, rights groups say. About 355 people were arrested across the country on Thursday, according to...

Congo said Friday it has filed a case against Rwanda at the International Court of Justice, accusing its neighbor of bearing legal responsibility for more than three decades of violence that has devastated eastern Congo. Congo accused Rwanda of breaching international conventions on genocide, racial...

The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday approved a bill to allow states to have their own police forces, paving the way for a major reform that would reshape the policing structure of the conflict-racked nation. The proposed constitutional change will decentralize the country’s police force, which is...

Sexual violence is increasingly being used as a "weapon of war" in Sudan to terrorize the civilian population, a UN report says. The violence is "unprecedented in terms of the scale, prevalence and brutality of its widespread use as a weapon of war", the report adds. Sudan has been hit by a...

The majority-Muslim southern city, in the Kordofan region, has been under siege for several months by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, also known as Hemedti. The United Nations Security Council expressed its "grave concern" on Saturday, regarding reports of the...

African and Caribbean leaders in Ghana on Friday urged former slave-trading nations to issue apologies and reparations over the trafficking of enslaved Africans after a landmark U.N. resolution in March declaring it “the gravest crime against humanity.” The “Next Steps” conference in the Ghanaian...

South Africa on Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of the Soweto uprising when over 200 young people protesting against the apartheid education system were shot and killed by the police. The events of June 16, 1976 — now commemorated annually as Youth Day — are considered a turning point in South...

A UN-backed court in Central African Republic on Tuesday opened the trial of former President François Bozizé, who is accused of crimes against humanity for abuses committed by members of his security forces between 2009 and 2013. Prosecutors accuse Bozizé of being responsible as a military...

An opposition figure in Uganda was detained Monday on the orders of the army chief, whose increased role in his father’s administration has worried opposition and human rights defenders. Erias Lukwago was taken from his house by armed soldiers after he had sought to serve Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba...