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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has held his first face-to-face talks on Friday with Tigrayan leaders since a peace deal was inked ending two years of war, officials and state media said. Abiy met senior leaders of the Tigray region forces on Friday about three months since the Addis Ababa...

Mali’s government has ordered the UN peacekeeping mission’s human rights chief to leave the country by Tuesday, declaring him persona non grata in the latest sign of tensions between Mali’s leaders and the international community. A government statement Sunday criticized Guillaume Ngefa-Atondoko...

A controversial migration agreement between Italy and Libya has been automatically renewed for three years amid warnings by humanitarian organizations that this might make Rome and the European Union complicit in crimes against humanity. The Memorandum of Understanding on Migration — signed in 2017...

Nigeria's human rights commission has appointed a special panel whose role will include investigating a Reuters report that the military ran a secret abortion program in its fight against Islamist insurgents in the northeast. The Nigerian military said it would not carry out an investigation because...

United Nations experts on Tuesday called for an independent investigation into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Mali by government forces and Russian private military contractor the Wagner Group. Mali, whose government took power in a 2021 military coup, has previously said Russian...

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday condemned an offensive by M23 rebels in the east of the country that forced 450 people, including women and children, to seek refuge around its base in Kitshanga town. The insurgency has inflamed regional tensions...

United Nations humans rights chief Volker Türk on Monday condemned the “brutal killing” of a leading pro-democracy activist in the southern African nation of Eswatini, which is one of the world’s few remaining absolute monarchies. Amnesty International said it believed Thulani Maseko was killed...

Sierra Leone has passed what has been described as a "ground-breaking" law to improve women's rights. The law states that 30 percent of public and private jobs must be reserved for women. Under the new Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment Act, women also benefit from ringfenced senior positions...

The French and German foreign ministers on Thursday hailed the success of the Ethiopian peace agreement signed last year, ending two years of brutal war, on a joint visit to Addis Ababa. The trip by France’s Catherine Colonna and Annalena Baerbock of Germany began a day after Tigrayan rebels...

Forces from Ethiopia’s Amhara region who fought in support of federal troops during the two-year civil war in neighbouring Tigray have withdrawn in line with an African Union-backed ceasefire, the army says. The withdrawal is a key step toward implementing the agreement reached on November 2...