By AFPWhen healthcare workers in central Mali travel to vaccinate children against measles, they have to negotiate with the jihadists who control some villages threatened by the epidemic."At first, they categorically refused. They see vaccines as car...

By AFPEight civilians including three children were killed on Thursday when unexploded munitions ignited at a house in northwestern Syria, a war monitor and the civil defence said.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported the deadly blast a da...

By AFP/Stuart WilliamsIran executed at least 975 people last year in a "horrifying escalation" of its use of capital punishment, two human rights groups said on Thursday.Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and French group Together Against the Death...

By AFPTwo days of fighting between Sudanese rivals have forced an estimated 10,000 families to flee a famine-hit displacement camp in the Darfur region, the UN migration agency said Wednesday.The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) last week stor...

By AFPA total of 93 bodies have now been recovered from two mass graves found in Libya during raids on human trafficking networks, the United Nations said Wednesday.One mass grave was found on February 7 on a farm in Jakharrah in northeastern Libya,...

By AFP/Clara WRIGHTThe French judiciary is investigating the 2012 deaths of reporters in Syria as a possible crime against humanity, anti-terror prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday.Prominent US journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik...

By AFPProminent Tunisian human rights activist Sihem Bensedrine was released from jail on Wednesday after an appeals court ruling, AFP journalists said, although she remains barred from leaving the country.A court spokesman earlier said Bensedrine ca...

By AFPUnited Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan told visiting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday that Abu Dhabi opposes the displacement of Palestinians, official media reported.Sheikh Mohammed "affirmed the UAE's firm p...

By AFPMore than one million people have returned to their homes in Syria after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, including 280,000 refugees who came back from abroad, the UN said on Tuesday.Assad was toppled in December in a rebel offensive, putting...

By AFP/Nina LARSONThe Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has summarily executed children in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said on Tuesday.The UN rights office warned the situation in eastern DRC was "deteriorating sharply, resul...

By AFPThe United Nations human rights chief on Tuesday denounced the "persecution of political opponents" in Tunisia, urging the authorities to halt the wave of arrests and arbitrary detentions.President Kais Saied was democratically elected in 2019,...

By AFPCambodian lawmakers on Tuesday approved a draft law making it illegal to deny atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s, including genocide.The ultra-communist movement -- led by "Brother Number One" Pol Pot -- wiped out about...