Amnesty condemns Spain, Morocco over Melilla border tragedy
JOAN FAUS MOROCCAN and Spanish authorities used “unlawful and lethal force” during a mass border crossing by migrants in June in which
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Nigerian military rejects Reuters report of secret mass abortion programme
NIGERIA’S Defence Chief, General Lucky Irabor, said that the military will not investigate a Reuters report that it ran a
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Amnesty says Russia guilty of war crimes in Kharkiv shelling
RUSSIA’S relentless shelling of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv with cluster munitions and scatterable land mines amounts to a
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Wave of abuses against Tigrayans reported
ARMED forces from Ethiopia’s Amhara region have stepped up killings, mass detentions and expulsions of ethnic Tigrayans in neighbouring western
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Ethiopia rounds up high-profile Tigrayans, U.N. staff
ETHIOPIAN authorities have rounded up high-profile Tigrayans – from a bank CEO to priests – as well as United Nations
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A year after Lagos bloodshed, Nigerians say promises of police reform prove hollow
LIBBY GEORGE and NNEKA CHILE ONE year ago, Adebanjo Akinwunmi gleefully waved a Nigerian flag at the Lekki Toll Gate,
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War devastates the lives of children: what the research tells us, and what can be done
AMNESTY International published a report recently on the situation in Niger that highlighted the devastating consequences of war for children.
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Struggle over Egypt’s Juhayna behind arrest of founder, son – Amnesty
EGYPTIAN authorities are holding the founder of the country’s largest dairy products and juices producer and his son in conditions
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Rights groups demand release of Congo journalist over terrorism charges
HEREWARD HOLLAND RIGHT groups called on military authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday to release a journalist arrested
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Democracy delayed in Eswatini
‘WE can never be head of government because we weren’t born ‘right’. We can do nothing to make our lives better.’
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