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Miss South Africa finalist faces xenophobic abuse over Nigerian heritage

Human Rights Watch says anti-immigrant rhetoric soared in South Africa ahead of this year’s election

The Independent UK · Aug 2, 2024

Guinea court sentences ex-dictator Camara to 20 years over 2009 stadium massacre

More than a decade after the brutal 2009 massacre and mass rapes of demonstrators at a Conakry football stadium shocked the world, a Guinean court on Wednesday sentenced former junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara to 20 years in jail for crimes against humanity.

France 24 · Jul 31, 2024

Tanzania's Maasai relocation scheme slammed in new HRW report

A Human Rights Watch report says Tanzania is forcibly evicting tens of thousands of Maasai from their ancestral lands, claiming that government rangers beat some members of the community with impunity.

Radio France Internationale · Jul 31, 2024

Paramilitaries gang rape girls as young as nine in Sudan, report warns

Human rights organisation accuses paramilitary group of perpetrating sexual violence against women and girls in war-torn country

The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2024

Human rights in Niger 'in free fall' a year after coup, rights groups say

Military authorities in Niger have committed numerous human rights violations a year after seizing power in a coup, according to a report published Thursday by three international NGOs.

Radio France Internationale · Jul 26, 2024

Labour must drop challenge over Netanyahu arrest warrant, says human rights chief

Yasmine Ahmed of Human Rights Watch says the UK should not challenge the international criminal court’s right to seek justice for alleged war crimes

The Guardian - UK · Jul 26, 2024

The ICJ has demolished Israel’s claims that it is not occupying Palestinian territories

The Israeli government has long stressed that there was no Palestine whose land it could occupy and that the territories are ‘disputed’. The court has rejected this

The Guardian - US · Jul 22, 2024

Trump says he’d like to take Kim Jong-Un to a baseball game as he boasts about their friendship

Trump became the first sitting president to visit North Korea in 2019

The Independent UK · Jul 20, 2024

Why does Israel step up its attacks when Gaza ceasefire talks advance?

Israel has a history of deploying this tactic to apply pressure on its opponents and act with impunity, experts say.

Al Jazeera · Jul 17, 2024

Hamas rejects HRW accusation of war crimes in October 7 attack

Rights group says in new report Palestinian armed groups committed crimes against humanity in assault in Israel.

Al Jazeera · Jul 17, 2024