Burundi: Human Rights Violations Persist
By Breaking Burundi August 21, 2026 CNIDH says its prison visits uncovered widespread violations, including unlawful detention and cases involving civilians held for non-criminal offenses. Martin Blaise Nyaboho says 135 detainees were held beyond legal limits / CNIDH Burundi’s National Independent Human Rights Commission has said violations of human rights persist in the country, citing arbitrary and prolonged detentions, abductions, enforced disappearances and alleged abuses
Breaking Burundi
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DRC: M23 abuses miners, traffics gold and coltan to Rwanda
Amnesty International reports that Rwanda-backed M23 fighters abused artisanal miners in eastern DRC while facilitating the trafficking of gold and coltan into Rwanda.
Amnesty International
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UNSC To Meet On Western Sahara Ahead Of MINURSO Vote
By Adil Faouzi October 02, 2026 A Moroccan flag stands before the UN Security Council chamber, with desert dunes in the foreground. (Designed by MWN team) For Morocco, the task now is to consolidate the gains secured through Resolution 2797 adopted last year and translate that diplomatic momentum into a lasting settlement. Marrakech – The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will hold two closed meetings on Morocco’s Western Sahara on October 7 and 8, ahead of the October 3
Morocco World News
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Sahrawi hunger strike Protests Moroccan camp destruction
Relatives of Sahrawi human rights defender Naâma Asfari have alerted that he and eight other detained activists have renewed their hunger strike on 23 September 2026. By International Service For Human Rights September 30, 2026 Naama Asfari © Antony Jean Naâma Asfari’s family also reported that, during a phone call on 29 September, he confirmed to them that he had been transferred to a Marrakesh prison and that he was continuing the hunger strike he has been waging alongside
International Service for Human Rights
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Peru faces human rights court over Indigenous protections
Peru faces human rights court over protections for isolated Indigenous Peoples By Steven Grattan (AP) September 25, 2026 Peru faces a regional human rights court over allegations it failed to protect isolated Indigenous peoples in the Amazon from logging and other activities Credit: ABC News PARAMARIBO, Suriname -- PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) — Peru faced the final day of a landmark hearing before a regional human rights court Friday over allegations that it failed to protect I
ABC News
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India’s crisis of legitimacy
By Muqtedar Khan September 29, 2026 A cycle of governance failures, official denials, and attacks on critics is eroding public trust and deepening the Modi government’s crisis of legitimacy. The Election Commission controversy is its latest example. An illustration of former Chief Election Commissioner T.N. Seshan and current Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. | Photo Credit: Illustrated by Sarthak Bagchi India is once again embroiled in a controversy that follows a f
Frontline Magazine
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The Silence of Violence: The Remaking of Modern Aerial Warfare
By Franzie Schatzl and Mayya Chaykina Pablo Picasso’s Guernica at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, 1997. Photograph: Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images. Unmanned aerial systems have reshaped the conduct of war without corresponding changes to the legal architecture that governs it. Today, conflicts are fought from afar, mediated by screens, algorithms, and the persistent terror of drones. This form of warfare is simultaneously more precise and less visible than conventional wa
Genocide Watch
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Pakistan-administered Kashmir votes amid unrest
By Abid Hussain September 24, 2026 Lawmakers will choose a president despite seven vacant seats in districts at the centre of months of unrest. A woman from Pakistan-administered Kashmir living in Karachi casts her ballot during the second phase of the region's general elections in Karachi, Pakistan, August 2, 2026. Credit: Al Jazeera, Shahzaib Akber, & EPA Islamabad, Pakistan – Legislators in Pakistan-administered Kashmir are voting on Thursday to elect a president, filling
Al Jazeera
Sep 26
Burundian Groups Urge AU Action On Xenophobia
By Francine Iradukunda September 16, 2026 The appeal follows a crackdown on small-scale foreign traders in Kenya that affected mostly Burundian nationals and was followed by reports of violence, prompting the groups to demand stronger regional safeguards for Africans moving across the continent. Four Burundian civil society groups call for stronger action against xenophobia in Africa / Jimbere A group of Burundian civil society organisations has called on the African Union to
Breaking Burundi
Sep 23
Why Spain’s new Sahrawi citizenship law matters to Morocco
By Al Jazeera September 13, 2026 The new citizenship bill for Sahrawis touches a sensitive fault line in Madrid’s ties with Rabat. Spain’s proposed citizenship route for Sahrawis is bringing its colonial legacy in Western Sahara back into the political spotlight and testing its delicate ties with Morocco [Hannah McNeish/Al Jazeera] Spain’s Congress has approved a bill that would open a special route to Spanish citizenship for Sahrawis born in Western Sahara while the disputed
Al Jazeera
Sep 23
Morocco's political parties battle youth disenchantment
By Ahmed Eljechtimi and Alexander Dziadosz September 17, 2026 A view of the parliament building in Rabat, Morocco, September 16, 2026. Picture taken with a mobile phone. REUTERS/Ahmed Eljechtimi Summary Governing parties pledge 1 million jobs over next term Monarchy retains overall control of policy direction Analysts say protests and Ceuta border rush signal discontent Few 18- to 24-year-olds have registered to vote RABAT/CAIRO, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Morocco’s political partie
Ex-Rwandan Official Appears At UK Trial Over 1994 Genocide
By Al Jazeera Staff, AFP, AP and Reuters September 22, 2026 Prosecutors allege Vincent Brown incited and directed acts of violence during the early days of the Rwandan genocide. Hundreds of human skulls are on display at a memorial to the 1994 Rwandan genocide [File: Joe McNally/Getty Images] A former Rwandan official has appeared in a court in the United Kingdom after being charged with ordering six killings during the first week of the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Vincent Brow
