Brunei Red Crescent urges support for Humanitarian Law
By Lyna Mohamad October 4, 2026 Credit: Lyna Mohamad - Borneo Bulletin The Brunei Red Crescent (BRC) pledged its support for Brunei Darussalam’s commitment to upholding, enforcing and respecting International Humanitarian Law (IHL), particularly in areas affected by armed conflict. BRC President Lailatul Zubaidah binti Md Hussain made the pledge during Brunei Darussalam’s first public lecture on IHL, describing the event as a milestone for national society and part of wider e
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Another Lao Activist Vanishes in Thailand
Khieo Lapchanh is the latest Lao exile to fall victim to the growing authoritarian collaboration between the Mekong region’s governments. By Mark Wright September 28, 2026 A photo of Khieo Lapchanh, a dissident Lao exile, that was posted on his Facebook page on Mar. 20, 2026. Credit: Facebook/Khiew Channel In the early hours of September 15, Khieo Lapchanh, a 26-year-old Lao content creator, finished his shift at a restaurant in Thailand’s Samut Sakhon province and vanishe
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Morocco: Surveillance used to silence journalists and activists
Amnesty International 1 October 2026 Credit: Amnesty International Ex-security agent provides rare first-hand insight into how Morocco surveillance system works from the inside. Targets secretly recorded in detention, offices, homes, cars and airports Intelligence services conspired with phone shop owners to sell phones pre-infected with spyware Authorities in Morocco operate an expansive and vast surveillance apparatus that combines digital and analogue tools to track, mo
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Ethiopia fighting escalates in Tigray, killing 52 civilians
Michael Teferi, Lion Tsigab and Lucy Fleming | BBC News Sept. 30, 2026 Tanks and armoured vehicles were filmed passing through Alamata after days of clashes. Social media via Reuters At least 52 civilians have been killed during three days of heavy fighting around Alamata in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, hospital sources have told the BBC. It appears government troops have taken control of the town from regional fighters and intend to push north towards Mekelle, the regi
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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
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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.
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Cameroon Grapples with Gender-Based Violence
By Juliana Nnoko August 28, 2026 The government has many plans--and few results--on gender-based violence Marie-Thérèse Abena Ondoa, Minister of Women's Empowerment and the Family, at the International Day of Rural Women celebrations in Nguibassal, Centre Cameroon, October 17, 2022. © 2022 Giordanno Brumas/SOPA Images/Sipa via Getty Images Several women were killed, including by current or former partners in Cameroon between August 6 to 26, some in the presence of their child
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Algeria Threatens to resume executions after 30 years
Amnesty International 15 September 2026 Photo by RYAD KRAMDI/AFP via Getty Images Algeria’s authorities must immediately abandon any plans to expand the scope of the death penalty or resume executions after more than three decades without carrying one out, said Amnesty International as the government examines amendments to the penal code that would broaden the use of the death penalty. The organization calls on Algeria’s authorities to immediately establish an official morato
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Concern Grows Over Gabon’s Social Media Clampdown
By Eromo Egbejule May 13, 2026 Activists claim use of laws to curtail internet freedoms part of well-documented history of cracking down on dissent The granddaughter of the former prime minister of Gabon, Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze, holds a placard in the colours of the flag of Gabon reading ‘Free my grandfather’ during a demonstration in Paris on 25 April. Photograph: Simon Wohlfahrt/AFP/Getty Images When Gabon’s media regulator indefinitely suspended major social media platf
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UNICEF Humanitarian Update on Djibouti
By the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) September 21, 2026 Credit: © UNHCR highlights As of 18 September 2026, according to the Ministry of Social Affairs and Solidarity, just over 3,100 people have arrived in Djibouti from Yemen. Nearly half of them are children, including 523 children aged five and under. The pace of arrivals has slowed down since 16 September, reportedly due to fuel shortages in Yemen. However, authorities anticipate a possible new surge, and partne
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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
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Zambia: Cancelling Passports used to Silence Critics
Amnesty International September 11, 2026 Private Photo. Source: Amnesty International Responding to reports that the Zambian authorities have cancelled the passports of former Zambian Ambassador to Ethiopia and former Permanent Representative to the African Union Emmanuel Mwamba, historian and academic Dr Sishuwa Sishuwa, former opposition Members of Parliament Binwell Mpundu and Emmanuel Jay Banda, former State House Special Assistant Kaizer Zulu, and blogger Lillian Mutambo
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