Reuters October 7, 2026 Former Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Ethiopia's President Sahle-Work Zewde, both African Union facilitators, attend a meeting as part of mediation efforts to discuss the peace process in efforts to negotiate an end to the war with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, October 5, 2026. REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi Former Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Ethiopia's President Sahle-Wor

By Lucas Reynoso 7 October 2026 An MQ-9 Reaper drone during a training mission in Nevada. William Rio Rosado (EFE) The United States has sent spy drones to Colombia and Ecuador to support both countries’ actions against organized crime, two military sources told the newspaper The New York Times. The aircraft involved are an undetermined number of MQ-9 Reapers that had been stationed in Africa. Although their primary roles are linked to surveillance, they can be used in offens

By Aljazeera Staff October 4, 2026 Credit: Dado Ruvic/Reuters Speaking at the final rally of his right-wing alliance ahead of Bosnia’s October 4 election, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik delivered a predictably controversial statement. “Bosnia-Herzegovina is dead. It is an impossible country, it makes no sense,” Dodik told supporters of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) party in Banja Luka on Friday. “It is now nothing more than an empty shell … for those

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

By James Wagner October 7, 2026 Lawyers warn that the mass trials of people imprisoned during President Nayib Bukele’s gang crackdown are marred by vague evidence and restrictions on a proper defense. Credit: Alex Peña/Getty Across El Salvador, hundreds of inmates appear in court by video simultaneously for a single, joint hearing. Some lawyers say that they are first meeting their clients on the same day as their trial. And individual anonymous witnesses are testifying again

October 9, 2026 by Roghiyeh Rezaei IranWire has obtained accounts detailing severe torture and forced confessions extracted from several January 2026 protesters currently facing execution. Three former inmates of Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan, held between late January and mid-summer 2026, told IranWire that most of the young men executed or facing capital punishment in Dastgerd hail from working-class and marginalized backgrounds, working as laborers or coming from working-clas

Gabriela Pomeroy and Chris Ewokor, BBC Africa, Abuja Nigerian police, pictured at the site of a previous abduction in June, said they rescued the young people | Credit: Reuters A group of 20 young people who were abducted in south-east Nigeria last week have been rescued, police say. The graduates were kidnapped on 1 October while they were travelling for a national community service programme in the Abia and Akwa Ibom states in the south of the country. They were rescued by

By Lincoln G. Peters, October 8, 2026 Ex-VP Taylor TEMPLE OF JUSTICE, Monrovia, October 7, 2026: The Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Justice, has formally indicted former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor and several others on multiple charges in connection with the alleged US$317 million cocaine trafficking case. Also named in the indictment are Mark Quiah, former Deputy Director for Operations of the Liberia Civil Aviation Authority (LCAA), and Gerald Foley

By Africa News and Malaika Elysee, AFP October 8, 2026 A first delegation to verify the ceasefire between the Congolese army and M23 was deployed to the region in late August New fighting broke out Wednesday in Masisi, in eastern DR Congo, a day after the African Union Panel of Facilitators visited Goma. The eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been riven by decades of conflict, with myriad armed groups fighting over its mineral-rich territory, including the M23. The Rwan

Staff Reporter Garowe Online October 9, 2026 Somalia continues to face serious human rights challenges, including restrictions on freedom of expression, forced evictions, abuses against civilians and widespread impunity, raising questions about the government's ability to protect citizens and hold perpetrators accountable. International human rights organizations have documented persistent violations across the country. Human Rights Watch, in its 2026 World Report, highlighte

Humanitarian Crises 05/10/2026 • Jeffrey Moyo Zimbabwean Health Minister Dr Douglas Mombeshora launched the country’s national health plan in July, committing more money to health – but this won’t be enough to fill the gap left by the withdrawal of US aid. HARARE – In March, 27-year-old Jemitius Gangata succumbed to malaria in Mahombokombe village in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland West Province, becoming part of the country’s growing malaria statistics. By mid-April, the country had

March 13, 2018 Shihar Aneez, Ranga Sirilal FILE PHOTO - WhatsApp and Facebook messenger icons are seen on an iPhone in Manchester , Britain March 27, 2017. REUTERS/Phil Noble COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka is likely to lift a ban on social media networks this week, a government minister said on Tuesday, almost a week after blocking access to prevent the spread of communal violence. At least two people were killed in clashes in early March when Sinhalese Buddhists, angered by a

by Timothy Cerullo on Friday, 9 October 2026 - 10:32 am DCI Headquarters, Nairobi PHOTO | DCI Police in Homa Bay have arrested a suspected gang leader accused of being behind a series of violent incidents in the county, months after deadly chaos disrupted a Linda Mwananchi leaders' rally. The suspect was arrested on Thursday night, October 8, 2026, as detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) executed a warrant issued by the Homa Bay Law Courts on A

By Polina Devitt October 7, 2026 UK gold bullion bars are stacked at Baird & Co in Hatton Garden in London, Britain, October 8, 2025. REUTERS/Hiba Kola/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights LONDON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The alleged fatal shootings of two illegal artisanal miners, identified only as ZZZ and ZZY, at Tanzania's North Mara gold mine are at ​the heart of a lawsuit against the London Bullion Market Association that ‌began in London on Wednesday, court documents from bot

Hundreds of thousands of children in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are having their education disrupted by the largest and deadliest Ebola outbreak in the country’s history, warns the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). By Norwegian Refugee Council Published 06. Oct 2026 NRC distributing hygiene kits as part of virus prevention and control efforts in Ituri Province, eastern DR Congo. Photo: NRC Press release DR Congo School operations and pupil attendance are being

I was sentenced to three years in jail for insulting government institutions. Now I am free, I will carry on fighting for the women I met in prison By Sadia Moalim Ali Wed 7 Oct 2026 The Somali activist Sadia Moalim Ali, who was detained for speaking out on TikTok and Facebook about issues such as forced evictions, high fuel prices and nepotism. Photograph: Handout ‘Why don’t you just drive your tuk-tuk and do your work?” the judge asked me after videos from my social media a

By United Nations News October 5, 2026 The International Criminal Court (ICC) has made public four arrest warrants against senior Taliban figures, accusing them of persecuting women and girls in Afghanistan, which amounts to a crime against humanity. © UNICEF/Azizullah Karimi | Many girls have exchanged the classroom for household responsibilities following the Taliban's seizure of power in Afghanistan. In a decision on Monday, judges unsealed warrants for Taliban Supreme Lea

Flora Tu October 2026 Source: Sgt. Ken Scar (U.S. Armed Forces). Public Domain. Historical Background Located in central Afghanistan, the Hazara are an ethno-religious minority as Shia Muslims in a state with a majority Sunni Muslim population, identifiable by their Hazaragi dialect of Dari. Population estimates vary greatly; studies in the late 1990s indicated a 19% constitution of the Afghan population, later officially lowered to 9%. Since Amir Abdur Rahman Khan's rule (18

By Samer Muscati June 24, 2026 Addresses Economic Exclusion; Could Become a Regional Model. Since 2023, Maureen Kamatu, 28, has been self-employed at a mobile money cash-transfer booth in Lilongwe. When she first started the business, she faced open discrimination from customers and neighboring vendors. “Passersby often said derogatory things about me as a person with albinism. I heard things like, ‘Is she going to be able to see well? Is she going to be able to count the mon

By Jack Nicas October 5, 2026 Flávio Bolsonaro, now the favorite to win Brazil’s presidency, would give President Trump a critical new ally in Latin America, particularly on security. Credit: The New York Times Over the last 18 months, right-wing candidates in Latin America have won the last seven presidential elections. Now the region’s biggest nation might be weeks away. On Sunday, Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of Brazil’s former hard-right president Jair Bolsonaro, received th

By Rédaction Africanews and AP October 8, 2026 A Congolese woman refugee sits with others at the Nkamira transit centre for refugees in western Rwanda Saturday, May 5, 2012. - Copyright © africanews Copyright 2012 AP. All rights reserved. The World Food Programme is seeking more than $30 million to maintain food assistance for Congolese refugees in Burundi, warning that supplies could run out as early as October 2026 without additional funding. The WFP said on July 24 that it

By Reuters October 1, 2026 Oct 1 (Reuters) - Bolivia's Attorney General Roger Mariaca has been arrested two days after the United States revoked his visa and accused him of accepting bribes to facilitate drug ​trafficking, the country's Interior Minister Marco Antonio Oviedo said on Thursday. Mariaca was ‌arrested along with 13 other people on Wednesday as part of an operation targeting what authorities described as a “criminal organization” embedded within the judiciary and

Prime Minister Should Face Scrutiny at the UN This Week By: Elaine Pearson © 2024 Frank Franklin/AP Photo When Bhutan’s Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay meets world leaders at the United Nations general assembly in New York this week, they should urge him to release the at least 28 political prisoners who are still held in dreadful conditions in his country’s jails. The small Himalayan kingdom projects itself to the world as the land that invented “gross national happiness,” bu

By: Kim Soo-yeon Credit: YONHAPNEWS SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Monday condemned a recent United Nations report on the North's human rights abuses as a document "fabricating and distorting" Pyongyang's rights situation. In a U.N. report on an update on North Korea's human rights situation, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres recommended North Korea investigate, prosecute and bring to justice those accused of having committed human rights violations. The repo

By: Sean Lin Credit: CNA Taipei, Oct. 7 (CNA) Defense company executives at a forum Wednesday touted the importance of Taiwan acquiring autonomous capabilities to reduce decision-making time during wartime and ensure the efficient use of resources in peacetime. Speaking at the 2026 Aerospace and Defense Strategic Forum hosted by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), Mira Resnick, a senior director at Saronic Technologies, noted that Taiwan could be vulnerabl