By AFPThe family and officials of ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad are facing justice in several countries, especially France and Germany, over the country's brutal civil war.Here are some of the cases:FranceAssad, his brother Maher and two ge...

By AFPBotswana's President Duma Boko helped to bury a Bushman elder on his ancestral land Tuesday, ending a three-year legal battle that fanned accusations of poor government treatment of the region's oldest indigenous group.Boko made the burial of t...

By AFP/Tangi QUEMENERAir passenger numbers are forecast to top five billion for the first time next year and the sector's revenues will break the trillion-dollar barrier, the global aviation body IATA said on Tuesday."Passenger numbers are expected t...

By AFPThis year has been "particularly deadly" for journalists with 104 killed worldwide, over half of them being in Gaza, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said Tuesday.The toll for 2024 is down on the 129 deaths in 2023 but still ma...

By AFP/Laura ChungPapua New Guinea's prime minister promised Tuesday to return to UN climate summits after boycotting this year's talks, but called for safeguarding forests to be a bigger priority.The jungle-clad Pacific nation skipped November's cli...

By AFP/Rose Troup BuchananKenyan police tear-gassed a peaceful march against femicide in the capital Nairobi on Tuesday, detaining a number of protesters, according to AFP reporters and rights groups.There was a strong police presence in Nairobi ahea...

By AFP/Camille LaffontThe printer in the corner of Martin Lukongo's print shop in Goma, a city in DR Congo's troubled east, vibrates as it churns out an order for 400 copies of a book.For more than 30 years, this part of the vast central African coun...

By AFP/Richard CarterThe world's chemical weapons watchdog has been probing Syria's stockpiles since 2013, encountering delays, obstructions, and suspicions that Damascus was not giving a full picture.Here are some key questions in the wake of Presid...

By AFP/Mary TaruvingaWhen Agnes Kativhu could not get treatment for breast cancer from Harare's main public hospital, she checked in to one of the many self-styled herbal clinics opening up across Zimbabwe's capital."I was a moving grave but am now w...

By AFPThe United Arab Emirates, home to the regional headquarters of numerous multinational companies, said Monday it would introduce a 15 percent tax rate on corporate profits from January 2025.The move will bring the UAE in line with efforts toward...

By UN NewsAs Human Rights Day dawns on 10 December, it serves as a reminder of the ongoing importance of equality, justice, and dignity for all people worldwide.The theme for Human Rights Day 2024, “Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now”, highlights the...

By AFP/Qubad Wali and Claire GounonFor Saja, studying nursing at a healthcare institute in Kabul was her last lifeline to make something of herself after women were banned from universities in Afghanistan two years ago.But the Taliban government has...