groups and the main opposition Democratic Progressive Party  allege that the assailants had links to a youth demonstrators and ensure that those responsible are appropriately punished,” said  Idriss Ali Nassah , senior Africa Malawi is party to the  International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the  African The  African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Guidelines on Freedom of Association and Assembly

residents and killed about a dozen people, the latest bout of violence in the largely lawless North African residents and killed about a dozen people, the latest bout of violence in the largely lawless North African government, while forces of powerful military commander Khalifa Hifter control the country’s east and south

religious and ethnic lines, with tribes claiming Arab heritage, like the Rizeigat, fighting with those of African Earlier this year, tribal violence in West Darfur and South Darfur provinces killed around 470 people The Darfur conflict broke out when rebels from the territory’s ethnic central and sub-Saharan African

had been due to come into effect on Tuesday – M23 fighters and Rwandan troops seized a mining town in South and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame are due to attend a joint summit of the eight-country East African Community and 16-member Southern African Development Community in the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam

and Ekani Olikita Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from a sprawling IDP Camp called Mbayongo, 5 km South violence in Nigeria, including the threats posed by terrorist groups like Boko Haram and ISIS-West Africa Damian Ugbir, Yelewata Youth Leader, decried the escalating attacks, blaming the Security Operatives

Russia provided military support to the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the 2008 Russo-Georgia fought in support of Russian interests in many nations, including Ukraine, Syria, Libya, the Central African Watch Recommends: Russia must withdraw its forces and stop its attacks on Ukraine and withdraw from South

situation after Chinese air force planes appeared to be coordinating with ships in joint training to the south force and navy are staging a large-scale drill involving fighter jets, bombers and warships off the south The aircraft included four nuclear-capable H-6 bombers, which flew to Taiwan’s south and into the Pacific air force planes were acting in coordination with Chinese ships to carry out joint training to the south

Parts of war-ravaged South Sudan are officially in famine, a government official declared on Feb. 20. (Reuters) NAIROBI — A severe food shortage has deteriorated into a famine in two counties in South Sudan Joyce Luma, head of the World Food Program in South Sudan, called the famine “man-made,” blaming it on South Sudan has experienced starvation before. The United Nations has been alarmed by the recent deterioration in South Sudan.

Abiy, who at 44 is Africa’s youngest leader, has so far resisted calls by the UN, the African Union, There are widespread concerns the fighting in Tigray could spread to other parts of Africa’s second-most-populous country, and to the rest of the Horn of Africa region.

opening up deliveries of humanitarian aid — but no truce for a conflict that has raged in the heart of Africa In White Nile State, where Hyde visited along the border with South Sudan, more than 1,200 children under resolution,” a Washington Post editorial noted, referring also to the challenging state of affairs in West Africa porous desert borders leading to refugee camps in Chad and the arms bazaars of Libya and the Central African

he warned his nation, and the wider world, had to stand up to Beijing’s territorial expansion in the South China claims “indisputable sovereignty” over almost all 1.3 million square miles of the South China Sea Over the past two decades China has occupied a number of reefs and atolls across the South China Sea, If they (China) close off the South China Sea, perhaps the next target may be the Straits of Malacca And he called global powers to help pressure Beijing over its moves in the South China Sea.

Women and youth survive through petty trading and food vending. There’s no guarantee these militants will lay down their arms,” said a local youth leader in Juji. "They will keep expanding until they take over all of Southern Kaduna and move farther south.” the testimony of Legal Scholar Nina Shea, who testified to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa