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The United Nations Children’s Agency has received at least 1,800 unaccompanied children delivered by Dominican immigration authorities into Haiti since the year began, a spokesperson told CNN on Monday. Many arrive without identity documents and are “shipped” into the country amid adult deportees...

Mali's army and jihadist groups have carried out massacres and hundreds of human rights violations, the UN said in a report that details previously undocumented abuses against civilians. The UN Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) report, seen by AFP on Thursday, catalogues 375 rights violations in the country...

"Today the terrorist groups, emboldened by their success in the regions, are seeking new grounds," Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo said on Tuesday, the second day of the Accra Initiative security conference. He warned that the situation "threatens to engulf the entire West Africa region." West...

The Institute for Strategy and Policy, an independent research group, said in a report earlier this month that as of Nov. 2, at least 1,650,661 people had been forced to escape conflict in regions that include Sagaing, Magway, Bago, Chin and Kayah in the more than 21 months since the military took...

Sudan's Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition said on Wednesday it was seeking to sign a framework agreement with the military as a first step to ending the political deadlock that has gripped the country since an October 2021 coup. The military takeover ended a partnership with the FFC...

A court in Iran has issued the first death sentence to a person arrested for taking part in the protests that have engulfed the country, state media say. At least 20 people are currently facing charges punishable by death, said the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group, citing official reports. Its...

Haitian women and children are increasingly being targeted for rapes, torture, kidnappings, and killings by the 200 armed groups that now control 60 percent of the capital. Their plight has been compounded by a lack of safe shelters or refuge. More than 96,000 people have been displaced by the gang...

Israel's Defense Minister has said Israel will not cooperate with any external investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, one of the most prominent journalists reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for the past two decades. The U.S. Federal Bureau of...

A United Nations independent commission of inquiry has begun public hearings on the alleged human rights violations in the Palestinian territories, with the first day focusing on Israel’s outlawing of several Palestinian rights organizations last year. The commission, established by the UN Human...

The life of jailed hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah is in great danger, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said, renewing a call for Egypt to immediately release him. Abd el-Fattah, a prominent activist who is a dual British and Egyptian citizen, has been jailed since...