Page 27 - Event Data News Today

French troops have started leaving Niger more than two months after mutinous soldiers toppled the African countrys democratically elected president, the military said Wednesday.

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 troops left in two flights from the capital Niamey on Tuesday in the first of what will be several rounds of departures between now…

The United Nations' top human rights body has voted to establish a face-finding mission to probe allegations of...

The French military says it's begun withdrawing from Niger following the July coup when mutinous soldiers toppled the country’s democratically elected president.

The UN Human Rights Council voted Wednesday to establish a face-finding mission to probe allegations of abuses in Sudan’s conflict.

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.The probe will "investigate and establish the facts, circumstances and root causes of all alleged human rights violations and abuses and violations of international humanitarian law", according to the resolution.

The United Nations' top human rights body, on Wednesday, voted in favor of establishing a fact-finding mission to investigate reports of abuses within Sudan's protracted conflict.

The United Nations’ top human rights body voted Wednesday to establish a face-finding mission to probe allegations of abuses in Sudan’s monthslong war. Sudan was engulfed in chaos in mid-April, when simmering tensions between the military and a powerful paramilitary group exploded into open warfare in the capital, Khartoum, and other areas across the east African nation. Proposed by the U.K., the U.S. and Norway, the resolution says the mission will “investigate and establ...

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.

WAD MADANI,  Sudan — At least three civilians were killed on Monday in Sudan when shells struck a key hospital in the capital, a medical source said, as fighting between rival generals continued unabated.“Shells fell on the Al Nau hospital,” in Omdurman, the twin city of Sudan’s capital Khartoum, a medical source told AFP by telephone.Omdurman has been the site of fierce