The US on Thursday accused the Sudanese government of using chemical weapons last year in the civil war against the paramilitary rapid Support Forces (RSF) and will accordingly impose sanctions on the ...

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, has told the Security Council that the world is witnessing an unravelling of the protection of ...

Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye and his aides have been charged afresh with terrorism six months after his kidnapping and rendition from neighbouring Kenya, where he had travelled to attend a ...

Ugandan human rights lawyer and journalist, Agather Atuhaire, has been found after being dumped near the Mutukula border in Uganda, five days after going missing in Tanzania, while in pursuit of the d ...

The civil war in Sudan, which erupted in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has killed over 18,000 people and displaced 13 million, tri ...

With more than 36,000 civilian deaths recorded in conflict zones in 2024 and sexual violence surging, senior UN officials warn that the international framework designed to protect civilians is collaps ...

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Thursday that it has been forced to cut food aid to unprecedented lows in Kenya’s sprawling refugee camps, as a result of severe funding shortages ...

The United Kingdom agreed to cede its control over the Chagos Islands to the Republic of Mauritius in an agreement signed between the two countries on Thursday ...

Kenyan human rights crusader, Boniface Mwangi, has been found after going missing from his hotel in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where he had gone to witness the trial of an opposition politician, his fam ...

The European Council has adopted its position (general approach) on the regulation to facilitate the e-declaration of posted workers ...

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that on Wednesday and Thursday, the Israeli authorities granted the UN access to Kerem Shalom so that UN teams could reach add ...

A total of 858,604 migrants were registered during the period January to February 2025 in Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), announced on Wednesday ...