By AFPThe United Nations human rights chief urged Sri Lanka on Tuesday to ensure accountability for crimes committed during its protracted ethnic war.Volker Turk told a panel discussion in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo that the country must address the...

By AFP/Mary KULUNDU and Eric RANDOLPHMarches in Kenya to mark a year since massive anti-government demos turned violent on Wednesday, with eight killed and at least 400 injured as protesters held running battles with police, who flooded Nairobi's str...

By AFPSave the Children said Monday it had witnessed a "horrifying" spike in the number of children being sexually assaulted in DR Congo, recording more than triple the number compared to a year ago."Armed men entered our house and raped me, my siste...

By AFP/Guillaume LAVALLÉEMahmoud Khalil, one of the most prominent leaders of pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses, recounted his experience surviving 104 days in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention after being targeted for deportation b...

By AFPGaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed another 46 people waiting for aid in the Palestinian territory on Tuesday as rights groups and UN agencies slammed the US-backed food distribution system.Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bass...

By AFPA Bangladesh court on Monday remanded in custody the former elections chief for his alleged role in rigging the vote in favour of now-ousted autocrat Sheikh Hasina.KM Nurul Huda, 77, was ordered to be detained for four days while questioning co...

By AFP/Emmanuel ANULELeaders from the west African bloc ECOWAS on Sunday admitted during talks in the Nigerian capital that the region was in trouble, facing mounting unrest and political instability."Our region is at the crossroads," said Sierra Leo...

By AFP/Peter HUTCHISON and Clara CANDILLIERThe UK government announced Monday it would ban campaign group Palestine Action under anti-terror laws following a "disgraceful attack" on Britain's largest air force base last week.The group denounced the p...

By AFPThe risk of genocide in Sudan's devastating civil war remains "very high", amid ongoing ethnically motivated attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a top UN official warned Monday.Since April 2023, Sudan has been torn apart by a powe...

By AFPAn Israeli strike on Evin prison in Tehran on Monday was irresponsible and put prisoners "in mortal danger", Noemie Kohler, whose sister Cecile is being held in the jail, told AFP.Iran's judiciary said Israeli strikes left sections of the facil...

By AFP/Maher al-MounesAfter eight members of her family, including her husband, were killed in a suicide bombing in a Damascus church, Laure Nasr demanded justice while Syria's minority communities worried about their future."I want (Syrian interim P...

By AFPNew Delhi will "never" reinstate a key water treaty it suspended with Pakistan over deadly violence in India-administered Kashmir, the interior minister said in an interview published Saturday.India halted the agreement following an April attac...