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  • THE RECRUITMENT AND USE OF CHILD SOLDIERS IN SUDAN

    March 2025    © UNICEF/Adriana Zehbrauskas Children play in a child-friendly space at a refugee camp in South The African Union and UN to deploy 10,000 troops to re-establish their peacemaking mission in Sudan.

  • RSF in Sudan brings new Genocide to Darfur

    particularly by the notorious Janjaweed Arab militias against populations that identify as Central or East African April, May, and June, which it said aimed at “ethnically cleansing and committing genocide against African the conflict in the 2000s were accused of mass killings, rapes and other atrocities against Darfur’s African said it documented 46 rape cases in Darfur, including 21 in Geneina and 25 in Nyala, the capital of South

  • Port Sudan attacked six days in a row, UN sounds alarm

    Africa News Smoke billows after a drone attack on the port of Port Sudan [Anadolu via Al Jazeera] Port Source: Africa News.

  • New evidence puts France's role in Rwanda's 1994 genocide back in the spotlight

    French foreign ministry officials told Gerard: "You can... use all indirect channels, especially your African researchers to look into the claims, widely hailed as an effort to confront France's troubled past in Africa

  • Could the Rwandan Genocide Have Been Prevented?

    the previously classified fact that thousands of US Marines were on ships just off the coast of East Africa of a Genocide, London, Hurst and Company, 1995, p. 168. 8 International Federation of Human Rights, Africa President Mitterand’s son, Jean-Christophe, headed the Africa office at the Elysée Palace, and was a 1994, Rwanda spent an estimated $112 million on arms, making it the third largest arms purchaser in Africa International Federation of Human Rights, Africa Watch (Human Rights Watch), Inter-African Union of Human

  • Country Report: Qatar

    American, Australian, and Arab nationalities systematically enjoy greater human rights protections than South 2022 Football World Cup preparations , for which Qatar hired two million migrant workers, mostly from south Asia and east and west Africa.

  • Zimbabwe: A Decade of Silence in Itai Dzamara Disappearance

    Sheffra Dzamara,” said Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa Dzamara was a leader of the Occupy Africa Unity Square, a pro-democracy protest group. Sheffra Dzamara,” - Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International Regional Director for East and Southern Africa finding Itai Dzamara. - Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International Regional Director for East and Southern Africa continue in Zimbabwe. - Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International Regional Director for East and Southern Africa

  • Army conducts mass arrest and sexual abuses on women in Maungdaw South

    AT Correspondent, Maungdaw Myanmar brutal military forces have been carrying out intense crackdown against the Rohingya villagers where dozens of innocent people have been arrested and the women have been sexually assaulted by army in Guduthaya village of Southern Maungdaw since yesterday. The army members have besieged the village and started arresting people arbitrarily and making attempt to conduct mass rape on women in the village. All the male members of the village fled from the village and several women have been sexually assaulted by army members who have been found inside their houses. A woman says they could not sleep at night due to violence of army against the Rohingya in the village since yesterday. “We are fleeing from the village to escape sexual rape of army. We are going where we can see. If we stay at home in the village, we will also be raped by military forces”, said another woman who could escape rape. The arrested people have been cruelly tortured by army to severe injury on different parts of their bodies in the custody. Now, all the residents of Goduthay village tract are scattered outside the village, some have been arrested many other men including women and children fled away from the village., source said.

  • Togo’s Gnassingbé leads Great Lakes peace mediation

    Since his appointment as Mediator by the African Union (AU) in April 2025, Togolese President Faure Essozimna The meeting benefited from the participation of representatives from the United Nations, the African This engagement aimed to reinforce international support and accompany African-led peace initiatives. guiding the complex negotiations confirms his position as a figure of consensus and competence within African coexistence based on cooperation and shared prosperity in the Great Lakes region. © 2025 COPYRIGHT African

  • Ivory Coast opposition rallies against president’s third term bid

    Amid the rising tensions, envoys from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc, the African Union and the United Nations headed earlier this week to Abidjan where they met officials This week’s mission was the second by the UN’s special envoy for West Africa, Mohamed Ibn Chamba, who

  • Tigrayan bodies floating, fears of ‘many more’

    nine-month war that has killed thousands of civilians and is now spilling into other regions of Ethiopia, Africa ’s second most populous country and the anchor of the often-volatile Horn of Africa. With the Tigray forces pushing south after threatening to go as far as the capital if needed, the U.N

  • CAR: War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity Suspects at Large

    international law, including war crimes and crimes against humanity remain at large in the Central African The briefing, ‘ One Step Forward, Two Steps Backwards: Justice in the Central African Republic’ reveals Samira Daoud, Amnesty International’s West and Central Africa director. Background Amnesty researchers visited Central African Republic in October 2021 and had 35 meetings with

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