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The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday approved a bill to allow states to have their own police forces, paving the way for a major reform that would reshape the policing structure of the conflict-racked nation. The proposed constitutional change will decentralize the country’s police force, which is...

Hungary’s Prime Minister Peter Magyar has launched a wide-ranging reform drive aimed at pulling the state out of the captivity into which it was forced by former Prime Minister Viktor Orban. In a fiery speech to parliament on Monday, Magyar announced a raft of economic, political, and legal measures...

Far-right lawyer Abelardo De La Espriella has clinched a narrow victory in Colombia’s presidential run-off election, according to an initial ballot count. Abelardo de la Espriella won 49.7 percent of the vote versus left-wing Senator Ivan Cepeda’s 48.70 percent, with 99.9 percent of results released...

Armenia’s polling authority on Sunday confirmed that the party led by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan won a general election seen as a vote on its geopolitical future and a test of Russia’s influence in the South Caucasus country. Pashinyan’s government is seeking closer relations with the European...

Colombia has just become the first Latin American country to approve nationwide legislation prohibiting female genital mutilation, or FGM. Recognized by the World Health Organization as a human rights violation, female genital mutilation is defined as the full or partial removal of genitalia for non...

Niger’s military junta announced a new penal code that criminalizes homosexuality, an adviser to the justice minister said Friday. The West African nation is the latest to criminalize homosexuality, following similar measures earlier this year in Senegal. The new penal code punishes anyone who...

The president of Colombia's legislative Commission of Investigation and ​Accusation, Gloria Arizabaleta, has proposed suspending President ‌Gustavo Petro from his duties until June 21, according to a document published Wednesday. Arizabaleta's motion is tied to ​a probe into Petro's alleged...

Ghana’s LGBTQ community is living in fear after the country’s parliament approved a sweeping bill that criminalizes the promotion of LGBTQ+ activities and identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer, rights groups have warned. The legislation mandates prison sentences of three to 10...

A far-right lawyer and Donald Trump admirer will go head-to-head against leftwing senator Iván Cepeda in the race to be Colombia’s next president after he won a surprise victory in the first round of voting. De la Espriella advocates ending Petro’s “total peace” policy of negotiating the dismantling...

For nearly two centuries after France abolished slavery, the colonial-era law that classified humans as property has remained quietly on the books. On Thursday, the lower house of parliament voted to wipe it from French law. The National Assembly voted 254-0—a rare show of unanimity—to adopt a bill...