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Street confrontations have again shaken Sudan’s capital, a day after security forces shot dead 15 protesters in the bloodiest day since the military’s October 25 takeover. Top general Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan insists the military’s move “was not a coup” but a step to “rectify the course of the...

The recent killing of Basak Cengiz by a man wielding a samurai sword is one of hundreds of murders of women committed in Turkey every year. Women’s rights activists blame the government’s failure to prevent gender-based violence, pointing to the withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, a 2011...

Based on a year-long inquiry into abuses by police forces and the killings at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos, a leaked judicial report has found that Nigeria’s army and police shot and killed unarmed anti-police brutality protesters in October last year, before cleaning up the scene to remove evidence...

The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has struck a limited immunity deal with former Davao City cop Arturo Lascanas in the investigation into the Philippine drug war and killings in President Rodrigo Duterte's home city. The OTP said it would not use as evidence against...

A 29-year-old activist and economics lecturer, Frozan Safi, has been shot and killed in northern Afghanistan, in what appears to be the first known death of a women's rights defender since the Taliban swept to power almost three months ago. The death underscores the pervasive sense of fear in...

A simmering months-long border crisis along the European Union's frontiers with Belarus has this week morphed into a serious geopolitical dispute and stoked fears of a humanitarian disaster. It is estimated that thousands are now gathered near the line that divides Belarus and Poland. Those trying...

The trial of a former Iranian prison official, Hamid Noury, accused of handing out death sentences as part of a 1988 purge of dissidents, moved to Albania on Wednesday, with a witness recalling "shocking scenes." Noury has been on trial at the district court in the Swedish capital Stockholm since...

The United States has sanctioned the Eritrean military, the Eritrean Defense Forces, and the country's ruling party, the People's Front for Democracy and Justice, for "contributing to the crisis and conflict" in Ethiopia, which has displaced more than 2.5 million people and killed thousands...

The United Nations has said 16 of its Ethiopian staff have been detained in the country's capital, Addis Ababa, with six others having been released. UN spokesperson Stephanie Dujarric said, "There has been, as far as I know, no explanation given to us on why these staff members are detained."...

The prison hospital treating Georgia's hunger-striking former president Mikheil Saakashbili lacks proper medical equipment and fellow inmates there have threatened and abused him, according to a Georgian human rights official. Public Defender Nino Lomjaria, Georgia's rights ombudsman said,...