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Human rights advocates and local politicians in the Central African Republic (CAR) have accused Russia-backed mercenaries for being behind the disappearance of two soldiers, amid a mountain evidence pointing to crimes, including murder, torture, execution, abductions, rape, theft, that are credibly linked to Wagner forces and their successor entities. The two soldiers, ,Celestin Bakoyo and […]
Eritrean soldiers, allied with Ethiopia’s government, committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity despite the signing of an agreement to end hostilities, when they extra-judicially executed civilians and sexually enslaved women for months after the signing of the peace deal, according the a new report published by the Amnesty International. The new report released […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has held a phone conversation with Senegal’s leader Macky Sall to discuss the political situation in the West African country after several days of unrest that ensued the condemnation of political figure Ousmane Sonko. The conversation, Senegal’s State-run news agency APS notes, took place Wednesday. Senegal was rocked by […]
The restricted approach by the World Health Organization (WHO) in dealing with the misconduct of its staffers during an Ebola outbreak in Congo has been dismissed as “an absurdity”, two experts appointed by the UN agency to investigate allegations that some of its staffers sexually abused women in the African country. In October 2020, Aichatou […]
UN experts on Tuesday (31 January) called for an independent investigation into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Russian private military contractor Wagner Group and government forces in Mali. This comes just days after the US formally designated (26 January) Russia’s Kremlin-affiliated Wagner Group as a transnational criminal organization responsible for widespread […]
Benin’s Central Office of Protection of Minors has launched an investigation against Nougbognon Hyppolite Hazounme, a lawmaker of Union Progressite Le Renouveau; a party ally of President Patrice Talon, reports say. The office did not reveal the rationale behind the probe but Hazounme has been accused by his secretary of alleged rape. The lawmaker reportedly […]
Eritrean troops have been accused of launching a “full-scale offensive” supported by Ethiopian forces, raising international concerns that the reignited war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region could quickly escalate. Eritrean and Ethiopian officials have yet to comment on the reports that Eritrea is mass-mobilizing its reserve troops and that Ethiopia has been behind a series of […]
Almost two years after the suicide in March 2012 of a Moroccan teenager who had been forced to marry her rapist, Moroccan MPs unanimously passed earlier this week an amendment to the penal code that is hailed by NGOs, civil society activists and women’s rights advocates as a major breakthrough. The amendment that was long […]
The case of the 23 year old medical student raped and battered by six men in December 2012 is still making the headlines and setting India on fire. The young woman just passed away from her injuries in a Singapore hospital, where she was treated after her assailants left her for dead on the street. […]