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Ethiopia’s state-appointed rights commission on April 10 called for an investigation into the killing of a prominent opposition figure recently released from prison. Bate Urgessa was gunned down on the night of April 9 in his hometown of Meki in Oromia, Ethiopia’s biggest region, according to the...

Mali's junta has issued a decree halting political party activities, government spokesperson Abdoulaye Maiga announced in a statement read on state television on the evening of April 10. The decree suspends until further notice all activities by political parties and "associations of a political...

Rwandans are marking 30 years since a genocide orchestrated by armed Hutu tore apart their country, as neighbors turned on each other in one of the bloodiest massacres of the 20th century. President Paul Kagame led the commemoration on April 7 by placing wreaths on the mass graves in the capital...

Ethiopia’s army “summarily executed several dozen civilians” and committed other war crimes in the northwestern Amhara region earlier this year, Human Rights Watch has said, as it called on the United Nations to launch an independent investigation. The incident in the city of Merawi in late January...

Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi has appointed the country’s first-ever female prime minister, naming planning minister Judith Suminwa to the role. An economist, she takes over as prime minister from Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde, following Tshisekedi’s sweeping re-election as...

Parents of more than 130 Nigerian schoolchildren who were rescued after more than two weeks in captivity said they saw them on March 27 and that they couldn’t hold back tears of joy during the long-awaited reunion. The meeting, three days after the children were freed, took place at a government...

Bereaved relatives emerged weeping from a hospital mortuary in Kenya on March 26 after recovering the remains of loved ones whose doomsday cult leader induced them to starve themselves, according to the authorities. The bodies of more than 400 followers of the Good News International Church have...

Senegal woke up on March 26 to a new president-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a former tax inspector and political newcomer who inspired voters, including many unemployed youth, with a vow to fight corruption and reform the economy. Faye, 44, was catapulted into the presidential campaign when he was...

Authorities in Chad have cleared 10 candidates for this year’s long-awaited presidential election, barring two fierce opponents of the military government from standing. Chad’s Constitutional Council announced on March 24 that outspoken opposition figures Nassour Ibrahim Neguy Koursami and Rakhis...

The number of people affected by violence in South Sudan surged by 35 percent in the last three months of 2023 due to intercommunal conflict, the United Nations has said. The UN Mission in South Sudan documented 233 incidents of violence affecting 862 people. In a report released on March 18, it...