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The escalating violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has claimed more than 700 lives at the hands of militia fighters since December last year, the United Nations said Monday (27 March). This comes as the CODECO insurgents, a notorious militia operating in the region, a day earlier executed at least […]
The UN Security Council has renewed for one year the UN mission in South Sudan where close to 20,000 forces have been stationed. Thirteen out fifteen members voted Wednesday in favor of the resolution that extends the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) until 15 March 2024. China and Russia abstained. According to a UN […]
Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire are hosting US Africa military command AFRICOM drill bringing together 29 countries in view strengthening the capacities of armies of the participating countries to tackle terrorism and extreme violence. The drill began on March 1st and will run through March 15th. Around 1,300 soldiers from 29 countries mostly from West Africa. […]
Pope Francis has ended his peace mission to South Sudan with an impassioned plea urging the people to resist the “venom of hatred” to achieve the peace, forgiveness and prosperity that have eluded them through years of bloody ethnic conflicts. Reconciliation and mutual forgiveness for past wrongs — these were the main themes woven in […]
A United States-backed Special Criminal Court in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Monday (31 October) convicted three militiamen of crimes against humanity committed during the civil war in 2013 and handed them jail terms from 20 years to life. Issa Sallet Adoum, Ousman Yaouberms Rangia, and Tahir Mahamat were accused of taking part in […]
At least 150 people including children have been killed in two days of fighting in the latest ethnic clashes between members of the Hausa people and rival groups over land disputes in Sudan’s southern Blue Nile state. The fighting is some of the worst in recent months, and crowds took to the streets the state’s […]
At 17 people lost their lives in a battle with opposing breeders and farmers in the province of Moyen-Chari, of Chad, Anadolu news agency reports. “The violence that broke out on Tuesday continued on Wednesday. We also recorded several injuries, including to gendarmes who were dispatched to the area to restore order. The victims were […]
Lieutenant Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was sworn in as president of Burkina Faso on Wednesday by the Constitutional Council, three weeks after taking power in a coup. “I swear before the people of Burkina Faso (…) to preserve, respect, ensure respect and defend the Constitution, the fundamental act and the laws” of Burkina, Damiba said […]
Child rights activists, university professors, journalists and civil society advocates have set up lately a coalition dedicated to the protection of the rights of children violated by the Polisario armed militia in Tindouf Camps under the watch of Algerian authorities. The new body was formed on the occasion of the International Day against the Use […]
Morocco has made a major stride forward for the rights of women with the new law passed by the Parliament, criminalizing harassment, aggression, sexual exploitation of women or their ill-treatment. Drafted five years ago, the text was adopted with a majority vote of 112, against 55 and one abstention. It provides for harsher penalties for […]