More than 1,800 civilians have been killed in Burkina Faso since 2023 in attacks by both jihadist insurgents and government security forces, according to a comprehensive Human Rights Watch report documenting an escalating humanitarian catastrophe.
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Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has called sweeping US sanctions “insults thrown in the face” of Kigali, as the peace agreement signed four months ago with DR Congo continues to unravel amid ongoing fighting in eastern Congo.
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Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy and biggest oil producer, is now paying the highest gasoline pump prices on the entire continent — with costs surging by 65% in a matter of weeks. The dramatic spike, triggered by the knock-on effects of the escalating Middle East conflict on global oil markets, is squeezing households already battling the
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As the conflict in the Middle East escalation sends shockwaves through global energy markets, African nations are counting the cost of a crisis they did not choose and cannot control. A landmark joint report by the African Development Bank, the African Union Commission, the UN Development Programme, and the UN Economic Commission for Africa has
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A damning new report from Human Rights Watch has laid bare the scale of civilian bloodshed in Burkina Faso, documenting at least 1,837 civilians killed across 57 major incidents in the West African nation between January 2023 and August 2025. The report, released on April 2, 2026, does not spare any party to the conflict
The streets of Kampala fell silent on April 3, 2026, as Uganda reeled from a horrifying attack that claimed the lives of four young children at a kindergarten in the Ugandan capital. The brutal incident sent shockwaves through the East African nation, reopening wounds about child safety in a country that has long battled insurgencies
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A fresh wave of bandit violence has struck Kaduna State, Nigeria, with armed men abducting ten people — seven members of the same family and three neighbours — from a densely populated residential area in the early hours of Thursday evening. The attack occurred at Unguwar Sabon-Titi along the Katari-Hayin Dam road in Kachia Local
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A sweeping new report by Human Rights Watch has found that Burkina Faso’s own security forces and allied militias are responsible for more civilian deaths than the jihadi insurgent groups that the military government cites as its primary justification for staying in power. The 316-page study, based on 450 interviews alongside verified social media footage
South Sudan — the world’s youngest nation, born in 2011 with the world’s highest hopes — is now described in the bluntest possible terms by the international monitors who track it. Human Rights Watch’s 2026 World Report opens its South Sudan chapter with a sentence that leaves no room for diplomatic hedging: the human rights
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Protests erupted across Guinea-Bissau on Tuesday following the discovery of the battered body of Vigário Luís Balanta, a well-known civil society activist and vocal critic of the country’s military junta. The killing has sent shockwaves through Bissau and beyond, reigniting long-standing tensions between the junta-led government and independent voices demanding democratic accountability. Balanta, 34, was
A major HRW report found Burkina Faso’s security forces killed twice as many civilians as jihadist militants between 2023-2025, documenting patterns that may constitute crimes against humanity.
800 South African soldiers deployed to Cape Town’s most crime-affected townships as the country battles surging gang violence and overloaded police.
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