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International Criminal Court appeals judges Thursday rejected the appeal by a former commander in the brutal Ugandan rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army of his conviction on dozens of charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity and upheld his 25-year sentence. In a landmark judgment nearly two...

More than 25,000 people could face starvation in conflict-plagued parts of West Africa next year, a United Nations official warned Friday. Federico Doehnert of the World Food Program said violence and the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine are largely driving the threat...

Though a Chad court recently sentenced 262 people to jail after they were arrested following deadly protests in October, the Secretary of Chad’s Bar Association announced Chad lawyers would appeal this, calling the sentencing a “parody of justice.” Around 50 people, including 10 members of the...

Sudanese security forces used tear gas and blocked roads and bridges on Thursday as they sought to contain scattered protests in the capital, a Reuters reporter said, three days after an initial deal was signed to launch a new political transition. Thousands of protesters gathered in the afternoon...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has said 272 civilians were killed in a massacre in the eastern town of Kishishe last week, raising the death toll from a previous estimate of 50, which the government blames on the M23 rebel group. The UN’s peacekeeping mission in the DRC denounced reports...

Following a recommendation from The Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission final report, the government has sought to collaborate with the University of The Gambia to establish the Center of Excellence in Transitional Justice and Sustainable Peace. The Center has now been created...

United Nations experts have called on authorities in South Sudan to investigate officials accused of overseeing systematic gang rapes, some of whose victims were girls as young as 9. The Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said on Monday that it had reasonable grounds to believe a county...

Mali's army and jihadist groups have carried out massacres and hundreds of human rights violations, the UN said in a report that details previously undocumented abuses against civilians. The UN Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) report, seen by AFP on Thursday, catalogues 375 rights violations in the country...

"Today the terrorist groups, emboldened by their success in the regions, are seeking new grounds," Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo said on Tuesday, the second day of the Accra Initiative security conference. He warned that the situation "threatens to engulf the entire West Africa region." West...

Sudan's Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition said on Wednesday it was seeking to sign a framework agreement with the military as a first step to ending the political deadlock that has gripped the country since an October 2021 coup. The military takeover ended a partnership with the FFC...