Media Coverage

A UN envoy on Thursday demanded access to the Malian village of Moura, site of an alleged massacre last month by local forces and suspected Russian fighters. The UN's peacekeeping mission in Mali, MINUSMA, was able to fly over the site on April 3. But its envoy for the Sahel nation, El-Ghassim Wane...

Indigenous leaders from Canada and survivors of the country’s notorious residential schools met with Pope Francis on Monday and told him of the abuses they suffered at the hands of Catholic priests and school workers. They came hoping to secure a papal apology and a commitment by the church to...

Azerbaijan has said it is ready for peace talks with Armenia, after Yerevan urged Baku to negotiate a comprehensive peace treaty amid new tensions over the long-contested enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. “If Armenia is serious about a peace agreement, then concrete steps have to be made. We repeat that...

Peace talks in the Central African Republic (CAR), where civil war has raged since 2013, have concluded without any concrete progress. The talks, which had ended on Sunday, resumed on Monday—but no rebel groups were invited and the opposition equally boycotted them. In late 2020, President Faustin...

Some 7,000 members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram have surrendered in northeast Nigeria in the past week, according to local media reports. On Wednesday, the News Agency of Nigeria quoted Major General Christopher Musa, a top commander in the region, as saying that...