Category: Government
Rights Group Calls for More Accountability Among Sahel Governments
Human Rights Watch has released its World Report for 2022, which gives a country-by-country review of human rights in more than 100 states over the last year.In the HRW report released Thursday, which cites reporting by VOA at times, the monitoring gro…
Dictators Face Democratic Backlash, Says Human Rights Watch
Autocratic leaders are facing a democratic backlash from their people in several countries around the world, according to the organization Human Rights Watch in its annual global report, which was published Thursday.The report said that in the past 12 …
SADC Leaders Pledge Continued Fight Against Insurgents in Mozambique
A summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has ended in Malawi with a pledge from member states to continue fighting insurgents in Mozambique. SADC sent troops to Mozambique last year after the Islamist radicals began terrorizing res…
At UN Security Council, Africans Urge Support for ECOWAS Mali Sanctions
The African members of the U.N. Security Council urged their counterparts on Tuesday to support sanctions imposed this week on Mali’s coup leaders by a bloc of West African nations.“We call for the Security Council to respect and embrace the determinat…
Mali Closes Borders After ECOWAS Sanctions for Delayed Polls
Mali’s military government on Monday responded to West African sanctions by closing its borders and withdrawing ambassadors from nations imposing the penalties. Regional bloc ECOWAS imposed the new sanctions Sunday, after Mali’s military leaders postpo…
West African Regional Leaders Impose New Sanctions on Mali
West African regional leaders imposed new sanctions Sunday on Mali, suspending most commerce and financial aid to the country after its military rulers said they would stay in power for four more years instead of holding an election next month as promi…
UN Announces Sudan Talks Aimed at Salvaging Political Transition
CAIRO — The United Nations said Saturday it would hold talks in Sudan aimed at salvaging a fragile democratic transition amid a grinding stalemate following an October coup and the prime minister’s resignation last week.Volker Perthes, the U.N. envoy f…
US Names New Horn of Africa Envoy
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday named career diplomat David Satterfield as the new special envoy to the troubled Horn of Africa.Satterfield, 67, who has experience in the Persian Gulf states, Lebanon and Iraq, most recently has serve…
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