Nairobi, Kenya//-The High Court in Garissa, Kenya ruled on January 21, 2025, in favour of thousands of Kenyan nationals whose nationality and citizenship rights were violated based on incorrect data that designated them as refugees instead of Kenyan citizens, Human Rights Watch and Haki na Sheria said today.
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania// — A delegation of seven Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from the Committee on Development will visit Tanzania from 24-26 February.
Geneva, Switzerland// — In recent days, the security situation around the city of Uvira, in South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has rapidly deteriorated, reaching a critical point on 15 February.
New York, United States of America/ — As the Security Council prepared to meet on Wednesday to discuss the international community’s response to the growing emergency in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN’s top aid official urged all warring parties to allow lifesaving relief supplies to reach the most vulnerable.
Rwandan-backed M23 rebels have entered Bukavu, the second-largest city in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, seizing the regional governor’s office.
New York, United States of America//– Brutal violence has taken hold in Cameroon’s North-West and South-West regions since 2016 as armed separatist groups seek independence for the country’s minority Anglophone regions. Attacks on communities and acts of banditry have become the norm.
London, United Kingdom// — Egyptian authorities must stop trying civilians in military courts, said Amnesty International and the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights, ahead of an expected verdict on 12 February in the military trials of five civilians about fishing in a lake in North Sinai controlled by a development agency operating under the ministry […]
Heather D. Flowe, University of Birmingham; Arpita Ghosh, University of Exeter, and James Rockey, University of Birmingham Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) is a deeply entrenched cultural practice that affects around 200 million women and girls. It’s practised in at least 25 African countries, as well as parts of the Middle East and Asia […]
Tokyo, Japan// — We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union, strongly condemn the Rwanda-backed M23 offensive in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and in particular, the capture of Minova, Saké and Goma.
Judith Verweijen, Utrecht University and Michel Thill, University of Basel After nearly three decades of warfare, armed conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has only intensified. The Rwanda-backed M23 rebellion – which claims to control the main east DRC city of Goma since January 26 – has been at the centre of […]
