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Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and several other members of Sudan’s civilian leadership were arrested as military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan dissolved the transitional government. Hamdok’s arrest followed his refusal to issue a statement in support of the coup. The arrests prompted thousands of...

This sixth round of Syrian Constitutional talks between the Syrian government, opposition, and civil society groups has failed to make meaningful progress according to United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen. In January 2018, at the Russian-hosted Syrian peace conference in Sochi, an...

Sudanese pro-military protesters demonstrated outside the presidential palace in central Khartoum, demanding the dismissal of the government of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. A 50-year-old protester Abboud Ahmed said, “We need a military government, the current government has failed to bring us...

Sierra Leone became the 23 rd African country and 110 th worldwide to abolish the death penalty. President Julius Maada Bio, who signed the bill into law, said that the West African country and former British colony had “exorcised horrors of a cruel past” after a long campaign to end capital...

A working paper by the international Human Rights Clinic at the University of California Berkeley School of Law shows San Francisco’s police department historically mired in deep racism and violence. The report is meant to aid the work of the city’s forthcoming Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation...

The Transitional Justice Commission has outlined the operations of the former state security apparatus and its role in the oppression of Taiwanese in an update on the commission’s ongoing historical research. Historical records showed that Chiang Kai-shek had intervened in 80 percent of cases where...

Tunisia's President Kais Saied has approved a new government selected by newly-appointed Prime Minister Najla Bouden Romdhane. Bouden said that "the fight against corruption will be the most important aim" of the new government and promised to "raise living standards" of Tunisians and "restore their...