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Eritrean troops allied with Ethiopia’s government have “committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity” in Tigray, rights group Amnesty International says. In a report released on Monday, Amnesty detailed how Eritrean soldiers extrajudicially executed civilians and sexually enslaved women...

The former CEO and the former chairman of a Swedish oil firm went on trial in Sweden on Tuesday, accused of complicity in war crimes in Sudan between 1999 and 2003—charges that they both flatly deny. Prosecutors say that the former Lundin Oil—which has changed its name several times and in 2022 sold...

The ouster of Gabon’s president by mutinous soldiers appears to have been well organized and capitalized on the population’s grievances against the government as an excuse to seize power, analysts said. Soldiers on Wednesday ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba, whose family has ruled the oil-rich...

A Chilean court has confirmed jail terms for seven elderly retired soldiers for the 1973 murder of beloved folk singer Victor Jara in the aftermath of the coup d’etat that installed Augusto Pinochet. The soldiers—aged between 73 and 85 and free men until the ruling—will now have to report to prison...

Twenty years after the final report of Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the National Security Archive (NSA), a U.S. non-governmental organization that has worked to access confidential U.S. government documents for 38 years, has posted a collection of 22 cables and declassified...

Baghdad has announced a financial reward for information on the location of burial sites for Iraqi and Kuwaiti victims of the 1990-1991 Gulf War. In a joint statement on Sunday, the Iraqi ministries of defense and interior called on anyone who has information about graves of missing persons inside...

The U.S. State Department on Thursday imposed sanctions on 13 people and entities it said are reportedly connected to the forced deportation and transfer of Ukraine's children, as Washington ramps up pressure on Moscow over its invasion. The United States is also taking steps to impose visa...

Eritrean and Ethiopian soldiers continue a widespread and systematic campaign of rape in Tigray, despite the peace agreement signed in November last year, a new report reveals. In the first report to document sexual violence—using hundreds of medical records from the start of the conflict in...

The head of a commission charged with searching for tens of thousands of missing people in Mexico has stepped down, as critics accuse the government of trying to undermine the true scale of the disappearances. Karla Quintana, head of the National Search Commission, did not elaborate on the motives...

Retired Guatemalan Colonel Juan Ovalle Salazar was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday for his role in the massacre of 25 Indigenous people, mostly children, some 40 years ago during one of the most brutal periods of the country's conflict. Eight other former members of the Central American...