A U.N. investigative panel is calling on the government of Ethiopia to end conflict-related rights violations on its territory and bring the perpetrators of crimes to justice. The commission has submitted its first report to the U.N. Human Rights Counc…

China is offering to help “silence the guns in the Horn of Africa,” an ambitious undertaking given the multiple conflicts in the region, and an indication that Beijing may be moving away from its traditional “non-interference” stance towards more activ…

A Britain-based group says its latest study of worldwide free expression rights shows only 15% of the global population lives where people can receive or share information freely.In its 2022 Global Expression Report, Article19, an international human r…

Tanzanian authorities say violent clashes on June 10 between police and ethnic Maasai people they were trying to evict from a conservation area left one officer dead and scores of Maasai shot and wounded. While rights groups have condemned Tanzanian au…

The top U.N. official for the Democratic Republic of the Congo said Wednesday that the resurgent M23 rebel group in the country’s east is well-armed and equipped, posing a growing threat to civilians.“During the most recent hostilities, the M23 has con…

The U.N. children’s fund says more than 266,000 violations were committed against children in armed conflict between 2005 and 2020.An analysis of more than 30 conflicts across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America finds children continue to b…

BERLIN— Priceless artefacts removed and looted from African nations during Germany’s colonial period will be permanently returned, officials said.The Berlin-based Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which manages the German capital’s many museums, s…

NADOR (Morocco)— A massive attempt by migrants to storm the barrier between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla resulted in “unprecedented violence” that killed at least 23 sub-Saharan Africans and has sparked fears of worse to come.“It was like…