Internationally funded African Union troops in Somalia have gang-raped women and girls as young as 12 and traded food aid for sex, Human Rights Watch, the US-based rights group, says. The 22,000 AU force, called AMISOM, with soldiers drawn from six nations, have been fighting alongside government...

When Parfait Hakizimana first heard the news that he would be participating in the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, he was overjoyed. “I saw the doors open up for me,” he says, beaming with pride as he laces his shoes outside his house in Rwanda’s Mahama refugee camp. For Parfait, 32, the journey to this...