gang on Sunday in Ganthier , a commune about 19 miles east of Port-au-Prince, resulted in at least two deaths The Ganthier attack followed the release of a video on social media by gang leader Lanmò San Jou (Death On top of the attacks resulting in numerous deaths, forced displacements, and property damage, the Haitian

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The opposition Citizens Coalition for Change, or CCC, party had publicized the death Thursday of Tinshe On Friday, witnesses told The Associated Press that Chitsunge was beaten and stoned to death as he tried Police said they have arrested 10 people in connection with Chitsunge’s death but gave no details about “It is not an election of political choices, but it’s an election of death or ZANU-PF,” Chamisa said. Zimbabwe has a history of violent elections and Chitsunge’s death was the first election-related killing

By Reuters August 13, 202412:19 PM CDT A woman with two children carries their belongings as residents of the Lower Delmas flee their homes due to gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti May 2, 2024. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol/FIle Photo Purchase Licensing Rights PORT-AU-PRINCE, Aug 13 (Reuters) - At least five Haitian children have been killed or injured a week so far in 2024, charity Save the Children said on Tuesday, urging the United Nations and security forces to do more to protect kids from crossfire and gang violence. Haiti in 2022 called for a security mission to help its under-resourced police fight violent gangs that have taken over most of the capital, bringing indiscriminate killings, gang rape, extortion and recruiting minors into their ranks. But progress has been slow and so far just 400 Kenyan police mandated to lead a U.N-ratified mission have deployed in Haiti, while countries have lagged in delivering on promises of funds, personnel and armored trucks. Citing U.N. data, Save the Children said at least 131 children were killed or injured in the first six months of 2024, often due to stray bullets or reprisals for supporting rival gangs or police, and said the true numbers were likely much higher. "Behind these horrifying numbers are real children who have been severely harmed or killed," the charity's Haiti director Chantal Sylvie Imbeault said. "Entire neighborhoods have been burned, kidnappings and sexual assaults are rampant, and children are being directly targeted or caught in the crossfire." In late July, local media reported that a Kenyan mission to Ganthier, a community by the border with the Dominican Republic, had rapidly ended with police having to help them escape gang gunfire due to lack of preparedness and resources. Violence in Ganthier had by Aug. 1 displaced nearly 6,000 residents, U.N. data showed. Save the Children called on the U.N. Security Council to "end impunity" for those committing abuses against children and recruiting them into gangs, and called on "all parties in Haiti to allow immediate, sustained and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief." Schools are set to reopen on Oct. 1, but many in the capital have been turned into makeshift refugee camps as the number of people internally displaced by the conflict nears 600,000 . Reporting by Harold Isaac and Sarah Morland Editing by Alistair Bell © 2024 Reuters. All rights reserved

Times investigation used cockpit recordings to show for the first time how Russian pilots attacked civilians Click on image to view video of Russian bombing attack on Syrian civilians, a war crime. , and an airstrike on a camp for displaced civilians in August that killed at least 20 people. Turkish commanders could bear criminal responsibility for those deaths if the fighters responsible were So why is Russia attacking civilians?

Young women gunned down in two separate attacks after leaving their television station. Three female media workers were shot dead in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Tuesday while heading home from work. Local broadcaster Enikass TV said the women killed were its employees. Zalmai Latifi, director at the station, said they were gunned down in two separate attacks after leaving the network. “They are all dead. They were going home from the office on foot when they were shot,” Latifi said. Two other people, apparently passersby, were wounded in the shootings. Latifi said the three women were recent high school graduates aged between 18 and 20. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks. Nangarhar police chief Juma Gul Hemat said an armed suspect was later taken into custody following the shootings, adding authorities were still looking for other culprits. “We arrested him as he was trying to escape,” said Hemat. “He has admitted he carried out the attack. He is a Taliban member.” However, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid denied the group had any hand in the killings. ‘Contrary to teachings of Islam’ The three women dubbed popular and often emotion-laden dramas from Turkey and India into Afghanistan’s local languages of Dari and Pashtu, said the news editor of the privately-owned station Shokrullah Pasoon. In a statement, President Ashraf Ghani condemned the killings, saying “attacks on innocent compatriots, especially women, are contrary to the teachings of Islam, Afghan culture and the spirit of peace”. Journalists, religious scholars, activists and judges have all been targeted in a recent wave of political assassinations that have spread panic across Afghanistan and forced many into hiding – with some even fleeing the country. In January, 28-year-old Bismellah Adel Aimaq, the editor-in-chief of Sada-e-Ghor (Voice of Ghor) radio station, was killed near Firoz Koh city in the province of Ghor. In December, gunmen killed Malala Maiwand, a female news anchor at Enikass, and her driver in Jalalabad. An affiliate of the armed group ISIL (ISIS), based in eastern Afghanistan, claimed responsibility for the killing. The Afghan Journalists Safety Committee issued a statement condemning Tuesday’s killings and criticising government investigations of previous killings of journalists. Without elaborating, it said the investigations of past attacks are “not satisfactory at all, something that need to be changed”. The Vienna-based International Press Institute called the killings an “unspeakable act”. Dwindling peace process Afghanistan is considered one of the most dangerous countries in the world for media workers. Tuesday’s killings brought to 15 the number of media workers killed in the country in the last six months. The killings have increased since peace talks were launched last year between the Afghan government and the Taliban – the latest attempt to end decades of conflict. Afghan and US officials have blamed the Taliban for the wave of violence, but the group has denied the accusations. “These attacks are meant to intimidate, they are intended to make reporters cower. The culprits hope to stifle freedom of speech in a nation where the media has flourished during the past 20 years. This cannot be tolerated,” the US embassy in Kabul said in a statement. The killings come as the US special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad returned to Kabul this week for meetings with Afghan leaders in a bid to revive a flagging peace process. Khalilzad’s arrival marks the first time he has returned to Afghanistan since US President Joe Biden took office in January and asked him to stay in his post. Donald Trump’s administration, eager to end the United States’ longest war, tasked the veteran diplomat with negotiating with the Taliban, culminating in a deal signed in Qatar on February 29 last year. © Al Jazeera 2021

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A video circulated on social media but not independently verified purports to show Russian forces shooting troops who appeared to be surrendering. Destroyed houses in the city of Avdiivka, near the village where the soldiers were killed. Credit...Nicole Tung for The New York Times By Matthew Mpoke Bigg Dec. 5, 2023, 2:04 p.m. ET Prosecutors in Ukraine have started a war crimes investigation into whether Russian troops shot dead two Ukrainian soldiers who were in the act of surrendering, the latest episode in which the government in Kyiv has accused Moscow of violating the Geneva Conventions. The prosecutor general’s office said that the incident took place at an observation post in Donetsk region outside the village of Stepove, a few miles northwest of the city of Avdiivka, which Russian forces have attempted to storm in recent weeks. It did not say when the incident took place. “The killing of prisoners of war is a gross violation of the Geneva Conventions and amounts to a grave international crime,” the office said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app. Reports of summary executions and the mistreatment of prisoners of war have fueled outrage in Ukraine, symbolizing what Ukrainians view as the cruel and lawless nature of the full-scale invasion that the Kremlin launched in February last year. A video of the purported incident circulated online over the weekend. It shows a man in combat uniform and helmet emerging gingerly from a foxhole with his hands behind his head. He is watched by at least five soldiers poised a few yards away who point what appear to be machine guns at him. The man, who does not appear to be armed, lies face down in the dirt, facing away from the other men. The State of the War U.S. Aid Warning: The White House said that the United States would run out of money to send weapons to Ukraine by the end of the year if Congress does not approve additional emergency support that has been snarled by funding debates. Crossing the Dnipro: Ukrainian troops have taken positions on the east bank of the river, posing a threat to Russia’s dominance of the region. Here is a look at the battlefield and the strategic implications . A Wrenching Choice: Ukrainian refugees who fled Russia’s invasion for temporary homes in Germany were welcomed with safety, services and jobs. As the war grinds on, giving that up to go home is not a simple decision . After a second man in uniform emerges with his hands on his head, the soldiers open fire, puffs of smoke visible from their guns. The first man briefly attempts to get up. The video, which is in black and white and had been set to ominous music, appears to have been filmed from a drone flying above tree height. The New York Times was not able to verify the video’s authenticity given its resolution. The United Nations’ Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, which has analyzed the video, said that in its present form it provides insufficient information to determine exactly what happened, according to a spokesman, Krzysztof Janowski. Ukrainian troops later retook the trench, killing the Russian soldiers seen in the video in battle, according to Vitalii Barabash, the head of the military administration in Avdiivka. It was not possible to verify that claim. War crimes are central to Ukraine’s accusations against Russia, and the execution of surrendering prisoners, if confirmed, could qualify as a violation of the Geneva Conventions. The International Criminal Court in March issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and a second Russian official on accusations of war crimes over the abduction and deportation of children from Ukraine. In March, Ukraine began a war crimes investigation into a video that emerged of what it said was the execution of a Ukrainian prisoner of war by Russian soldiers. Also that month, United Nations investigators said they had documented 15 cases in which Russian soldiers had summarily executed Ukrainian soldiers and 25 cases in which Ukrainian soldiers had summarily executed Russian troops. Ukrainian officials contested the report’s findings. In another report, in October, United Nations investigators said they had verified six additional cases in which Russian security personnel had executed Ukrainian troops. Rights group say that both sides have abused detainees, but that Russia’s treatment of surrendering soldiers and detainees is far more severe. And while Kyiv has granted rights groups access to some detention sites, Moscow has not. © 2023 The New York Times Company

MALABO, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea has abolished the death penalty, according to a new criminal "EQUATORIAL GUINEA HAS ABOLISHED THE DEATH PENALTY." Sierra Leone's parliament last year voted unanimously to abolish the death penalty. Globally, about 170 countries have abolished or introduced moratoria against the death penalty, according He has denied wrongdoing. https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/equatorial-guinea-scraps-death-penalty-eight-years-after-last-execution

Turkish Migrant Death in Greece Prompts Accusations of Torture Originally published by VOA on January LONDON/IZMIR/ATHENS — The death of a Turkish migrant after he traveled to a Greek island has prompted Baris’ mother, Saime Büyüksu, said her son’s death has devastated the family. The initial autopsy, carried out immediately after Büyüksu’s death and seen by VOA, recorded injuries “It is not the first death we have documented linked to pushbacks,” Nanou said.

West Asia News Agency/Reuters) Iran's judiciary has sentenced three more anti-government protesters to death Revolutionary Guards, have been at the forefront of the state clampdown on the unrest sparked by the death Papal criticism Pope Francis on Monday condemned Iran for using the death penalty on demonstrators. "The right to life is also threatened in those places where the death penalty continues to be imposed Under Iran's Islamic law, treason is punishable by death.

The first indication of a problem in Sudan was in August 2016, when 100 deaths, mainly children, were cases were laboratory-confirmed in Kenya; by May 25, officials had reported 586 cases, including 22 deaths Conservative estimates suggest a minimum of between 15,000- 23,000 people infected, with 280-820 deaths materials related to the watery diarrhea that has swept many localities in the state and led to the death Amazingly, the death toll may be higher (800) in Sudan than South Sudan (250), but that’s because WHO