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Rebels backed by ISIL (ISIS) have killed at least 52 civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo this month, according to the United Nations peacekeeping mission (MONUSCO) in the country, as both the DRC army and Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group accuse each other of violating a recently reached...

Myanmar will begin its general elections on 28 December, its military government announced, in a phased poll widely condemned as a sham that will be used to entrench the junta's power. This will be the first vote since the junta seized power in a bloody coup in 2021 and imprisoned democratically...

Israel is in discussions with South Sudan about the possibility of resettling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the war-torn East African country, part of a wider effort by Israel to facilitate mass emigration from the territory left in ruins by its 22-month offensive against Hamas. It’s unclear...

United Nations investigators say they have gathered evidence of systematic torture in Myanmar’s detention facilities, identifying senior figures among those responsible. The Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM), set up in 2018 to examine potential breaches of international law...

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has attacked a famine-hit camp for displaced people in Darfur, killing at least 40 civilians, according to first responders. The RSF stormed Abu Shouk camp, opening fire inside homes and on the streets, said the local Emergency Response Room, one of...

Former Malian prime minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga was taken into custody on accusations of corruption, his lawyer said, as the West African country ‘s military junta has ramped up arrests of top politicians in recent weeks. In November 2024, Maiga was dismissed from his role as prime minister, days...

The U.S. government sanctioned an armed group accused of illicit trading in minerals in eastern Congo as Washington tries to spearhead peace efforts there while pushing for U.S. access to the region’s minerals. A senior U.S. government official who spoke on condition of anonymity ahead of the formal...

South Korea’s former first lady Kim Keon Hee, the wife of the impeached former president Yoon Suk Yeol, has been arrested on corruption charges, a special prosecutor leading a wide-reaching probe said. The arrest, which came after a Seoul central district court ruling, creates an unprecedented...

Hundreds of mourners carried the body of the prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif through the streets of Gaza City one day after he and four colleagues were killed in an Israeli airstrike, prompting condemnation from across the world. Sharif, one of Al Jazeera’s most recognizable faces in...

Miguel Uribe, the Colombian senator and presidential hopeful who was shot in the head at a campaign event in June, has died, his wife has confirmed. Uribe, an opposition candidate with the rightwing Centro Democrático party, was shot twice in the head and once in the leg during a campaign stop two...