bble of destroyed buildings in Banki, northeast Nigeria, April 2017. © 2017 Jane Hahn/Washington Post (Abuja) – Cameroon’s military has carried out a mass forced return of 100,000 Nigerian asylum seekers in an effort to stem the spread of Boko Haram, Human Rights Watch said in a report released tod...

An international human rights group says there is strong evidence that Kenya's anti-terrorism police unit has carried out a series of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances. A Human Rights Watch report said on Monday that research conducted between November and June documented at leas...

Almost 2.3 million Syrian refugees have fled horrific and tragic situaton in war-torn country. 76 percent of the current 2.3 million Syrian refugees fleeing "a horrific and tragic situation" in the country are women and children, United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency Turkey Representative Carol Batc...

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has declared a 90-day state of emergency a day before his official mandate ends. He decried "extraordinary" foreign interference in his country's affairs and December's election. Regional leaders have been unsuccessfully trying to persuade Mr Jammeh to hand over ...

24 May 2013 - Educating lawmakers in the rights of vulnerable persons, UNMISS concluded a two day workshop today in the Upper Nile capital of Malakal. The training, which drew 46 parliamentarians, covered the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, South Sudan Transitional Constitution and Upper Nil...