Rights Group Raps Pakistan For ‘forced’ Repatriation of Afghans
Pakistan is conducting the mass repatriation of Afghan refugees through coercion, threats and abuse, Human Rights Watch said in a ...
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Al-Qaeda Affiliate Claims Mali Car Bomb Attack In Gao
Al-Qaeda's North African affiliate says a group linked to it carried out the suicide attack that killed at least 50 ...
Exiled Gambians Ponder Return To Troubled Homeland
Musa Saidykhan still feels the ache in the scars knotting across his back when the temperature drops every winter in ...
Israeli PM Netanyahu Backs Pardon For Manslaughter Soldier
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for a pardon for a soldier convicted of manslaughter for killing a wounded ...
Church Calls For Peace After Deadly Clashes
The Catholic Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has appealed for a resolution to the ongoing political standoff ...
Ethiopia Says Oromo Leader Detained For Meeting Terrorist Group In Brussels
Ethiopian authorities have clarified that leading opposition figure and Chairman of the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), Dr Merera Gudina is ...
Pink Sheeting An African Election
By the time Charlotte “lip gloss” Osei, Ghana's electoral Commissioner conceded defeat to the NPP and Nana Addo Danquah Akufo ...
‘I’m the Legal President of This Country,’ Barrow Tells BBC
Gambia's President-elect Adama Barrow has told the BBC he will declare himself president on 18 January regardless of President Yahya ...
Yaya Jammeh Irreparably Damaged His Already Shoddy Legacy
I have always been one to reserve judgement about the Legacy of Yaya Jammeh of The Gambia. But no more! ...
How China Fights Corruption
The gray, concrete building looms over the street in central Beijing. Completely unmarked aside from a street number, its entrance ...
Musings Of A Naïve African
Africa or African states largely have reasonable cause to reconsider their membership of the International Criminal Court, even if it ...
Justin Trudeau Will Not Attend Fidel Castro’s Funeral
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau must have been feeling the heat. Mr Trudeau will not attend Fidel Castro's funeral in ...
S. Africa Divided Over ICC Withdrawal
South Africans are divided over the country's decision to pull out of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Last month, South ...
Myanmar Wants Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya
Myanmar is seeking the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya minority from its territory, a senior UN official has told ...
Don’t Light An Electoral Bushfire
The Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh has warned his supporters that violence was like "bushfire" that could destroy the country, as ...
A Nonviolent Strategy To Liberate Syria
In early 2011, as the Arab Spring was moving across North Africa and the Middle East, small groups of nonviolent ...
Islamic State Kills Civilians In Mosul To Deter Support For Army
Islamic State has summarily killed 21 civilians in Mosul it accused of collaborating with U. S.-backed security forces, which said ...
Mugabe Says ‘sorry’
The Robert Mugabe regime says it is sorry for killing many Chiadzwa diamond field victims. The government has come out ...
China Police Official To Head Interpol
A high-level Chinese police official has been elected president of Interpol, the international police organisation, angering rights advocates concerned over ...
Nigeria Sends Female Police To Protect Boko Haram Victims
Police in the north-eastern Nigerian state of Borno say they have deployed 100 female officers to camps for those who ...