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The territorial dispute between Ethiopia's northern Amhara and Tigray regions will be settled through a referendum, the government says. The row has threatened to disrupt the fragile peace following the end of the civil war in Tigray a year ago. Tigray controlled the fertile lands before Amhara...

A peace deal to end the fighting in Tigray was brokered in South Africa by the African Union on 2 November last year. The war, which also drew in Eritrean forces, inflicted terrible damage on the region. Ethiopian Finance Minister Ahmed Shide recently estimated the cost of reconstruction at $20...

Conflict and escalating violence have uprooted a record 6.9 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, mostly in the east of the country, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday. Years of rebel conflict and recurrent natural disasters have helped fuel one of the...

Talks between Sudan’s warring factions will resume Thursday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with a focus on securing access for humanitarian aid to reach beleaguered civilians, according to senior U.S. State Department officials. The United States and Saudi Arabia have brokered multiple cease-fires between...

Politicians, campaigners, and community groups are uniting for the first time to make “a very distinct and clear call for reparative justice” at an inaugural reparations conference this weekend. The all-party parliamentary group for Afrikan reparations (APPG-AR), a group of cross-party MPs, is...

An alleged senior commander of the Sudanese Janjaweed militia, Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahma—also known as "Ali Kushayb"—has been charged with 31 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. According to Human Rights Watch, "the mass rape...

Congo’s president—President Felix Tshisekedi—said he will gradually ease the state of military rule in the conflict-riddled east and lift some restrictions imposed more than two years ago. He implemented the state of siege in 2021, allowing military and police to take control from civilian...

The United Nations Humans Rights Council on Wednesday adopted a resolution that opens a probe into the humanitarian situation in Sudan where the army and a paramilitary group have been fighting for the last six months. "This resolution is a call to action for what we all agree are the pressing...

Rwandan authorities are coordinating a systematic campaign of repression at home and abroad against political activists, suspected dissidents and their family members, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, raising questions about plans by the UK government to send asylum seekers there. The...

Concerns over Kenya’s human rights record have cast a shadow over a UN decision that gave Kenya the go ahead to lead an armed multinational force to Haiti amid brutal gang violence in the Caribbean country. For a year, the multinational force, comprising 1,000 Kenya police personnel, is expected to...