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Venezuela's ruling party is celebrating what it has described as "an overwhelming victory" in regional and parliamentary elections, which were boycotted by the majority of opposition parties. The electoral council (CNE), which is dominated by government loyalists, says candidates for the United...

Joseph Kabila, former president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has attacked the country’s justice system after the Senate voted to lift his immunity, paving the way for him to be prosecuted for alleged treason and war crimes. Kabila gave a livestreamed speech from an undisclosed...

Chief Justice Prakash Man Singh Raut administered the oath of office and secrecy to the newly appointed chairpersons of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons (CIEDP), reactivating the long-stalled transitional justice...

Syria will set up commissions for justice and missing persons tasked with probing crimes committed during the rule of the Assad family, compensating victims, and finding thousands of people whose whereabouts remain unknown, the presidency said. Syria's grinding 13-year civil war has left hundreds of...

Hundreds of supporters of ex-President Evo Morales marched toward Bolivia’s top electoral court on May 16 to push for their leftist leader’s candidacy in presidential elections later this year, a rally that descended into street clashes as police tried to clear out a group of demonstrators. The...

Pjeter Shala, known during wartime by the nom de guerre Commander Wolf, launched his appeal on Thursday and Friday at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague against a guilty verdict for the arbitrary detention and torture of at least 18 wartime detainees and the murder of one prisoner. The...

President Donald Trump's senior adviser for Africa said he spoke with the presidents of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo about a draft peace deal this week, as Washington seeks to end a decades-long conflict in the region. The United States is awaiting final feedback due this weekend from...

Mauritania's former president, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, was sentenced to 15 years in prison on corruption charges following an appeal to a Nouakchott court by both the state and Aziz's defense against a sentence imposed in 2023. Abdel Aziz led the West African country for a decade after coming to...

The nationalist party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán introduced a bill late Tuesday that would allow the government to monitor, restrict, penalize, and potentially ban organizations it deems a threat to national sovereignty, marking a significant escalation of the government’s long-running...

A magistrate court in Tanzania ordered that an opposition leader who was charged with treason last month be brought to court in person next month after he went on hunger strike to protest against virtual hearings. Opposition leader Tundu Lissu was arrested on April 9 after calling for electoral...