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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...

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...

The UN Security Council has renewed the nearly 17,500-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission in the troubled Central African Republican for another year. The government controls the capital, but much of the country is controlled by armed groups. The CAR has faced deadly intercommunal fighting since 2013...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the UK and Mauritius to center the Chagossian people in upcoming negations. The UK announced on November 3, 2022, that it was open to reaching an agreement with Mauritius on the future of the Chagos Islands. HRW called for full reparations for the Chagossian...

A group of four widows who had sought to hold Shell liable for damages in the Netherlands after their anti-oil activist husbands were executed by the Nigerian government in 1995 have cancelled further legal proceedings, their lawyer said on Monday. "Obviously this is not without disappointment and...

A Paris court has made history in convicting a former Liberian rebel commander for complicity in crimes against humanity under the principle of “universal jurisdiction." Kunti Kamara was also found guilty acts of barbarity, including torture, cannibalism, and forced labour during the country’s first...

Ethiopia’s warring sides agreed Wednesday to a permanent cessation of hostilities in a conflict believed to have killed hundreds of thousands, but enormous challenges lie ahead, including getting all parties to lay down arms or withdraw. A draft text of the agreement, shared with The Associated...

Thousands have protested in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) city of Goma, denouncing Rwanda’s alleged support of M23 rebels, as DRC recalled its interim acting ambassador from Rwanda in a further souring of relations. A mostly Congolese Tutsi group, the M23 resumed fighting in...

On October 25, 2022, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a warning of a heightened risk of genocide in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. According to the statement, “the situation has deteriorated exponentially as Ethiopian security forces, supported by Eritrean forces and Amhara special...