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The International Criminal Court on Tuesday ordered an al-Qaida-linked extremist leader to pay $8.4 million in reparations for atrocities he oversaw as head of the Islamic police in the desert city of Timbuktu in the West African country of Mali. Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz Ag Mohamed Ag Mahmoud was...

Chad will deploy 1,500 troops to Haiti as part of the United Nations security force to the Caribbean country to combat gang violence, according to a letter from the president to the legislature. In the letter read out to lawmakers of the Central African country on Monday, Chadian President Mahamat...

An armed group in Libya helped the transfer of former Colombian military personnel to fight with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group against the Sudanese military, according to a United Nations report released days after the third anniversary of the start of the war in Sudan. Libya’s...

Burkina Faso’s military government has ordered the dissolution of more than 100 associations and civil society groups—which rights groups are calling an “attack” on basic rights. It is the latest crackdown in the West African country, months after the government issued a decree dissolving all...

Nearly 700 civilians have been killed in drone strikes in Sudan since the beginning of 2026, the United Nations has reported, while NGOs worry that the effects of the war in Iran are complicating efforts to help millions in need of humanitarian aid. The increasing use of drones in the conflict was...

The UN has expressed concern over violence in the strategic town of Akobo in South Sudan’s Jonglei State, which was retaken by opposition forces after they ousted government troops. Fighting started over the weekend and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-in-Opposition spokesman Lam Paul Gabriel said...

The humanitarian situation has reached “catastrophic levels” for civilians and is even more critical for persons with disabilities three years into the war in Sudan, the nongovernmental organization Humanity & Inclusion says. The war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support...

Cameroon said on Monday that Russia has confirmed the deaths of 16 soldiers in Ukraine, according to a memo addressed to the Russian Embassy in the central African country. In the memo addressed to the embassy, the country’s foreign affairs ministry acknowledged the death of the Cameroonian soldiers...

At least 26 people have been killed in three separate Easter attacks in northern Nigeria, according to the Nigerian military and local officials. At least 17 were killed on Saturday when armed men attacked the Mbalom community in the Gwer West area of Nigeria’s north-central Benue State. Benue State...

Burkina Faso’s military is committing atrocities, including the ethnic cleansing of Fulani civilians, Human Rights Watch has found, which amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity in the West African country. In a report released on Thursday and titled “None Can Run Away,” the New York-based...