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At least 120 children have been kidnapped by jihadist insurgents in northern Mozambique in recent days, Human Rights Watch said, warning of a rise in abductions in the country’s troubled Cabo Delgado province. The children are reportedly being used by an Islamic State–linked group known locally as...

A United Nations peacekeeper was killed during an attack by armed men in Central African Republic, the UN said as the Security Council expressed concerns over growing attacks against peacekeepers in the country. A Zambian peacekeeper was killed when suspected Sudanese armed groups attacked a U.N...

A judge in El Salvador ordered that a lawyer and well-known critic of President Nayib Bukele remain in jail as his prosecution on charges of money laundering proceeds in a blow to critics pushing back against the government. Enrique Anaya was detained by police earlier this month on money laundering...

At least 46 people waiting for aid have been killed by Israeli fire in two incidents in central and southern Gaza, according to rescuers and hospitals. UN agencies have condemned the US and Israel-backed food distribution system, with one official calling it "an abomination" and "a death trap". Such...

There have been celebrations at the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea as communities from the frontier villages came together for the first time in five years. Separated by the closed border since the outbreak of the 2020 conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, and subsequent political...

The Colombian army says more than 50 soldiers have been seized by civilians in a southwest mountainous area. A platoon of soldiers was the first to be seized during an operation in El Tambo, a municipality that is part of an area known as the Micay Canyon, a key zone for cocaine production and one...

The International Criminal Court has been asked to review a confidential legal report arguing that the Russia-linked Wagner Group has committed war crimes by spreading images of apparent atrocities in West Africa on social media, including ones alluding to cannibalism, according to the brief seen...

Belarus opposition leader Siarhei Tsikhanouski has been released from prison after five years, his wife Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya said in a post on X. Tsikhanouski, 46, is now in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius, a spokesperson for his wife said. Tsikhanouski had planned to run against incumbent Lukashenko...

The Netherlands has officially handed back 119 ancient sculptures stolen from the former Nigerian kingdom of Benin more than 120 years ago during the colonial era. Olugbile Holloway, director-general of Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments, said that the artifacts were the...

Residents of two Nigerian communities who are taking legal action against Shell and a local subsidiary over oil pollution are set to take their cases to trial at the high court in 2027. Members of the Bille and Ogale communities in the Niger delta, which have a combined population of about 50,000...