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  • Boko Haram huntress

    Since the dawn of humanity, hunters have roamed the forests and savannahs of Africa. Rosie Collyer/Al Jazeera Bukar Jimeta was a devout Muslim, and he believed in the African gods of nature

  • Central African Republic: Ugandan Troops Harm Women, Girls

    (Nairobi) – Ugandan soldiers in the Central African Republic have sexually exploited or abused at least The Ugandan military has been deployed in the country since 2009 as a part of the African Union’s Regional Republic,” said Lewis Mudge , Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Ugandan and African Union authorities should conduct proper investigations, punish those responsible Approximately 1,500 Ugandan military forces were deployed to the Central African Republic.

  • Timbuktu and Gao under siege by Islamist fighters

    Regional crisis The conflict is threatening to spread outside Mali and across Africa's Sahel region, to help each other against armed rebellions or external aggression, following a threat by other West African Dr Alex Vines, director of the Africa programme at the Chatham House think tank, said that with Niger

  • Ethiopia: Suspension of Three Human Rights Organizations

    Human Rights (LHR) — Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa -Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa “Amid reports

  • What is the Abaya, the Garment France Wants to Ban?

    decided that it is no longer permissible to wear the abaya to school," Minister of National Education and Youth It is similar to the djellaba worn in North Africa or the qamis worn in West Africa.

  • The Risk of a New Ethiopian-Eritrean War Is Growing

    looks to have momentum as the preferred option for an expanded U.S. military presence along the Horn of Africa side will prevail—and whether either set of external actors would fully invest in yet another costly African A practical framework might involve the Trump administration, the Europeans, and key African and Gulf Whatever the formula for de-escalation, the bottom line is that the Horn of Africa, and the world, cannot

  • A New Roadmap to Make U.S. Sudan Sanctions Relief Work

    the process, encouraged by belief that the delay at least in part reflected the U.S. administration’s Africa The first step would be to reconvene a new round of the African Union-mediated peace talks to ensure African Union-UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) personnel still face visa delays and officials continue to Machar currently is in exile in South Africa and Khartoum should not take any steps that would allow to renegotiate revenue sharing with the south.

  • Incitement to genocide in D.R. Congo requires urgent response

    Congo for decades, especially in the North and South Kivu Provinces. landing in Kigali, President of Rwanda Paul Kagame flew to Nairobi on 20th June for a meeting of East African

  • Zimbabwe’s Very Peculiar Coup

    when President Mugabe fired Vice President EmmersonMnangagwa and expelled him from the ruling Zimbabwe African among key components of the state, the judiciary, parliamentarians, the security sector, churches, youth South African President Jacob Zuma confirmed Mugabe is “confined to his home”, as is apparently his wife The African Union (AU) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) rightly condemn unconstitutional Speaking on Tuesday, South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) Secretary General Gwede Mantashe

  • Suspected ISIS Ties? Some Aid Workers May be Shying Away

    officials told several international and local organizations responsible for managing camps 60 kilometers south

  • UN: thousands imprisoned and tortured in C.A.R.

    concrete action is required to ensure respect for human rights in places of detention in the Central African Rights Office and the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in the Central African “Ongoing reforms in the penitentiary system offer an important opportunity for the Central African Republic click here https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/analysis-deprivation-liberty-central-african-republic-current-situation

  • At least 161 dead in northeastern Congo in apparent ethnic clashes

    his first months in office, but armed violence has persisted, particularly in North Kivu province, south

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