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The Myanmar military attacked a village hosting hundreds of displaced civilians in Kachin State on October 9, 2023, killing 28 civilians, including 11 children, committing an apparent war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. The nighttime attack on Mung Lai Hkyet village, which also injured more than 60 people and caused extensive damage to civilian structures, did not appear to be targeting a military objective.

A group of citizens in El Daein, the capital city of Sudan's East Darfur State, has launched an initiative to 'discourage' carrying of guns in public places and attacks on public utilities and private property.

The Committee to Protect Journalists on Friday called on Sudanese authorities to investigate and hold to account those responsible for the Tuesday, October 10 killing of Sudanese journalist Halima Idris Salim.

Its not illegal for hate groups to spread their message via leaflets or protests, and thats happening far more often these days, an Anti-Defamation League report found. Its important to

The Darfur Journalists and Media Association has welcomed the resolution of the United Nations Human Rights Council to set up an independent fact-finding mission to probe alleged rights abuses in Sudan's brutal fighting.

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COTONOU, Benin (AP) — French troops have started leaving Niger more than two months after mutinous soldiers toppled the African country’s democratically elected president, the military said Wednesday. More than 100 personnel left in two flights from the capital Niamey on Tuesday in the first of what will be several rounds of departures between now […]

The UN Human Rights Council voted Wednesday to set up an independent fact-finding mission to probe alleged rights abuses in Sudan's brutal fighting. "There is ... an urgent need to investigate and gather evidence of human rights violations and abuses and violations of international law, no matter where in Sudan they were committed, by whom they were committed," AFP quoted Britain's ambassador Simon Manley saying, bringing forward the proposal on behalf of several countries. T...

COTONOU, Benin—French troops have started leaving Niger more than two months after mutinous soldiers toppled the African country’s democratically elected president, the military said Wednesday. More than 100 personnel left in two flights from the capital Niamey on Tuesday in the first of what will be several rounds of departures between now and the end

The French did not specify how many troops were departing or where they were headed.