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Hundreds of women wearing black gathered in a Johannesburg park on Friday, one day before the start of the Group of 20 summit, to stage a 15-minute lie-down protest symbolizing the 15 lives lost daily to gender-based violence in South Africa. South Africa, while putting forward a progressive agenda...

An Islamic State-backed rebel group killed 89 people during attacks on multiple villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN peacekeeping mission in the country said Friday. In the village of Byambwe, around 60 kilometers west of the town of Lubero, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF)...

A Nigerian court has sentenced separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu to life in prison after convicting him on seven charges related to “terrorism” in a years-long trial. In his ruling on Thursday, Nigerian Judge James Omotosho said prosecutors proved that Kanu’s broadcasts and orders to his now-banned...

The government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have recaptured two territories in the North Kordofan state from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), as the paramilitary group continues burning and burying bodies in Darfur’s el-Fasher to hide evidence of mass killings. Footage circulating online this...

International NGOs, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have decried a sharp decline in civil liberties and a pervading “injustice” in Tunisia since President Kais Saied came to power in 2019, as authorities escalate their crackdown on the opposition, activists, and foreign nongovernmental...

The UN migration agency warned on Tuesday that humanitarian efforts in Sudan’s war-torn North Darfur region might come to a complete halt unless immediate funding and safe delivery of relief supplies are ensured. “Despite the rising need, humanitarian operations are now on the brink of collapse,”...

Police in Tanzania have released several senior opposition leaders detained following the deadly protests that followed last month’s disputed elections, according to the main opposition party, Chadema. Four senior Chadema officials arrested last week for their alleged role in the protests were...

Two Kenyan activists were released from detention in Uganda after President Yoweri Museveni confirmed they were arrested more than a month ago and accused them of working with the opposition to unseat him in the January general election. Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo were taken by armed men on Oct. 1...

The number of people facing emergency levels of hunger in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has nearly doubled since last year, the United Nations has warned. The UN’s World Food Program (WFP) said on Friday a “deepening hunger crisis” was unfolding in the region, but warned it was only able...

The Rapid Support Forces says it has agreed to a proposal by the United States for a ceasefire in Sudan after more than two years of fighting with the Sudanese Armed Forces. The paramilitary group said in a statement on Thursday that it would accept a “humanitarian ceasefire” proposed by the U.S...