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The UN Security Council has renewed the nearly 17,500-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission in the troubled Central African Republican for another year. The government controls the capital, but much of the country is controlled by armed groups. The CAR has faced deadly intercommunal fighting since 2013...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the UK and Mauritius to center the Chagossian people in upcoming negations. The UK announced on November 3, 2022, that it was open to reaching an agreement with Mauritius on the future of the Chagos Islands. HRW called for full reparations for the Chagossian...

A group of four widows who had sought to hold Shell liable for damages in the Netherlands after their anti-oil activist husbands were executed by the Nigerian government in 1995 have cancelled further legal proceedings, their lawyer said on Monday. "Obviously this is not without disappointment and...

A Paris court has made history in convicting a former Liberian rebel commander for complicity in crimes against humanity under the principle of “universal jurisdiction." Kunti Kamara was also found guilty acts of barbarity, including torture, cannibalism, and forced labour during the country’s first...

Ethiopia’s warring sides agreed Wednesday to a permanent cessation of hostilities in a conflict believed to have killed hundreds of thousands, but enormous challenges lie ahead, including getting all parties to lay down arms or withdraw. A draft text of the agreement, shared with The Associated...

Thousands have protested in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) city of Goma, denouncing Rwanda’s alleged support of M23 rebels, as DRC recalled its interim acting ambassador from Rwanda in a further souring of relations. A mostly Congolese Tutsi group, the M23 resumed fighting in...

On October 25, 2022, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a warning of a heightened risk of genocide in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. According to the statement, “the situation has deteriorated exponentially as Ethiopian security forces, supported by Eritrean forces and Amhara special...

The spokesman for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Vincent Magwenya, said the African Union-led talks that started Tuesday are expected to continue until Sunday. Delegations from the Ethiopian government and Tigray authorities arrived in South Africa this week, though there was no immediate...

Videos published on social media show thousands of demonstrators marching with flags and drums, most of them bound for the Presidential Palace, where they are expected to face a large security presence. Various outlets and local journalists reported that security forces had closed off bridges...

The Constitutional Court last month annulled a commission for proposed reforms that would let the current president, Faustin-Archange Touadera, 65, stand for a third presidential poll. The already twice-elected Touadera government earlier this month issued a decree telling 28 higher education...