South Africa’s North Gauteng High Court today ruled that the government’s attempt to withdraw from the It’s an important ruling for international justice both in South Africa and beyond. Rather than leave the ICC – a court South Africa played a key role in creating – they should use this South Africa should follow the lead of Gambia, which recently cancelled its ICC withdrawal notice. Such a move would signal South Africa’s commitment to justice and the rights of victims.

Humanitarian officials and researchers say the African migrant workers who traverse Yemen every year More than 100,000 Ethiopians, Somalis and other East Africans board overstuff smugglers’ boats across Authorities on both sides of the war have long found it easy to stigmatize African migrants as carriers kind of stigmatization on migrants is life-threatening,” said Mohammed Abdiker, the East and Horn of Africa Jawf, a governorate on the war’s front lines; from mid-April to mid-May, at least 486 were expelled south

from January through April of 2021 in and around El Geneina, West Darfur, after the withdrawal of the African These attacks are systematic and directed toward civilians from the indigenous African tribes who were

United Nations peacekeepers in the Central African Republic. Where is the Central African Republic? continent, enclosed clockwise by Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of The name changed during the 1950s decolonization period of French equatorial Africa. Some see this as part of a pattern of expanding Russian military influence across Africa.

President  Donald Trump  on Sunday announced strict tariffs and visa restrictions on Colombia after the South President Donald Trump threatening to impose steep tariffs and visa restrictions on Colombia after the South expressed interest in joining BRICS — the economic partnership of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — and China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Despite Colombia’s role as a cornerstone partner for the United States in South America, Trump appears

Anti-balaka militias in Gamba, south-east CAR in 2017. (AFP/Alexis Huguet) Genocide Watch is issuing a Genocide Emergency for the Central African Republic ( became the CAR’s first Muslim president after decades of domination by ethnic groups from the CAR’s south

OCHA) said about 500 armed men on Saturday attacked the village of Masteri, located 48km (30 miles) south

ABUJA, Nigeria — Gunmen attacked two communities in Nigeria’s north-central region, killing 14 people and injuring many others, authorities said Thursday. The attackers stormed the communities in the Logo council area of Benue state Wednesday night, opening an “unprovoked” fire on residents, said Paul Hemba, the state’s top security official. Police in Benue confirmed the attack. The assailants shot 12 people to death in one community and then moved on to another where they killed two more villagers, Hemba said. He said 15 people were “seriously injured.” He identified the attackers as “Fulani herdsmen,” a group of mostly young pastoralists from the Fulani tribe caught up in Nigeria’s conflict between host communities and herdsmen over limited access to water and land. In Nigeria’s middle belt and central regions, deadly clashes between local communities and herdsmen continue in a cycle of violence that has defied government measures, although security forces have recently announced some arrests and seizure of arms. A similar attack in another part of Benue targeted a convoy of soldiers of the Nigerian army, but they were able to repel the assailants, Hemba said. Many of the attacks in rural areas are similar. Motorcycle-riding gunmen often arrive in the hundreds in areas where Nigeria’s security forces are outnumbered and outgunned. Authorities have in the past admitted that the inadequate number of security personnel in many of the affected areas is one of the major reasons the attacks have continued. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, who came into office in 2015 on a wave of goodwill after promising to end the nation’s protracted security crisis, leaves office in 2023. Those security challenges are back on the front burner as political campaigns for next year’s election begin.

Israeli Defense Forces called for over a million Palestinians in northern Gaza to evacuate  to the south Anyone who chooses not to evacuate from the North of the Gaza Strip to the South of the Gaza Strip may classification  and discrimination  to create a hierarchical system of oppression like the apartheid system in South Africa or the old segregation system in the southern United States.  

Is it possible that any person – especially in South Africa (where support for Nazism was very strong

In the Plateaux region of South Kivu province, a coalition of militias has been fighting armed groups Verifying data is challenging in South Kivu, and accuracy remains an important principle. Jacob de Lange) Part 2: False Dichotomies Between Conflict and Genocidal Violence The crisis in the South Regarding the South Kivu Plateaux, one important paper titled “Mayhem in the Mountains” and other related HUGUET/AFP via Getty Images) Part 3: False Equivalences and Asymmetric Victimization The crisis in the South

region was engulfed in bloodshed in 2003 when rebels from the territory’s ethnic central and sub-Saharan African