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Kenya will pay compensation to almost 2,000 victims of protest-related human rights abuses, President William Ruto said on Monday, marking a rare national reparations process outside the judicial system. The victims of human rights abuses will begin receiving compensation from next week after...

Niger’s military junta announced a new penal code that criminalizes homosexuality, an adviser to the justice minister said Friday. The West African nation is the latest to criminalize homosexuality, following similar measures earlier this year in Senegal. The new penal code punishes anyone who...

More than 3,000 Malawians, including hundreds of children, are staying in an open field in South Africa’s port city of Durban, after fleeing escalating anti-immigrant threats and attacks. The unrest is pushing thousands to seek an escape. Nigeria repatriated a first group of 260 nationals on...

At least 117.8 million people, or one in 70 individuals worldwide, remain forcibly displaced, according to a report - released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today. Almost three-quarters (72 percent) of all refugees came from just seven countries: Venezuela (6.4 million...

At least 360 people kidnapped by Boko Haram jihadists from a mainly Muslim community in Nigeria's north-eastern Borno state in March have been freed from a remote mountain hideout. Mass abductions by armed groups for ransom have become a common tactic in Nigeria in recent years — and though it is...

Violence has erupted in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, as government forces and opposition-allied militias have exchanged fire before an antigovernment protest, damaging buildings and forcing residents to flee. Fighting began before planned protests against President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s decision...

Ghana’s LGBTQ community is living in fear after the country’s parliament approved a sweeping bill that criminalizes the promotion of LGBTQ+ activities and identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, rights groups have warned. The legislation mandates prison sentences of three to 10...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) trained Colombian mercenaries before sending them to fight alongside a notorious paramilitary group in Sudan’s devastating war, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday. Its new report is the latest by an international rights group accusing the wealthy Gulf monarchy of...

A drone strike on a bustling market in central Sudan on Tuesday killed 28 people and wounded dozens more, a local rights group said, part of the war that has devastated the country since 2023. The Emergency Lawyers, a local rights group that tracks violations committed during the conflict, said on X...

A joint operation by the United States and Nigeria against Islamic State group fighters has killed 175 over the past few days, Nigeria’s military said Tuesday, while the head of the U.S. Africa Command said it showed the capabilities its forces could bring in Africa, home to the “epicenter of global...