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Eritrea will withdraw its troops from Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Friday, a potential breakthrough in a protracted conflict that has seen atrocities against civilians. The announcement comes as Abiy, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019, faces increasing pressure to end fighting in which both Eritrean and Ethiopian troops are accused of abuses, including mass murder and rape. Abiy sent troops to Tigray on November 4 after blaming the region's once dominant ruling…

The Human Rights NGO, Human Rights Watch (HRW), condemns the violence perpetrated by separatists in the English-speaking zone of Cameroon in a report released on Friday 12 March. These separatists have mostly abandoned their ideological claims and have become criminals organized into several armed groups, the organization believes.…

As the UN Security Council examines Central Africa on Wednesday 9 December and Thursday is Human Rights Day, the database on the atrocities in Cameroon publishes a series of eight reports on the atrocities committed in the two English-speaking regions of the north-west and south-west. This is a group of researchers from the…

In Ethiopia, the war in Tigray has now lasted eleven days. The conflict is still very difficult to estimate due to the cut-off of all telecommunications in the province. The government has taken over a small part of the western part of the province but clashes continue. as reported from Addis Ababa, Noé Rochet-BodinThe…

In Chad, a few days ago, we told about the discovery of the Chadian Convention for the Defense of Human Rights by a secret prison of the National Security Agency. CTDDH condemns a real death. The government talks about dungeons where prisoners are treated "very well". RFI found five former residents of this detention center, two of whom agreed to testify with their faces exposed.…

Although hailed by the president of Faso at the end of last week, the volunteers' contribution to the defense of the homeland against terrorism has drawn criticism. as reported from Ouagadougou, Yaya BoudaniThe collective against impunity and stigmatization of society, the Burkinabè Movement for Human Rights and Human Rights…

At the very least 51 civilians have been killed in Nigeria's unrest after days of peaceable protests over police abuses, the president mentioned on Friday, accusing "hooliganism" of the violence, claiming that safety forces have used "excessive restraint". President Muhammadu Buhari's feedback are anticipated to additional stir tensions in Africa's most populous…

Last week, a triple terrorist attack claimed by GSIM, the Support Group for Islam and Muslims, linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, targeted the Sokoura military camp and then civilians, killing a total of 24 people, according to the Malian army. has since launched a counter-terrorism operation in the area. According to several local sources, an operation was ruined by abuse. A "large-scale operation" is underway, according to the Malian army, "on the Dogon plateau and the exposed area of ​​Seno". A…

UNICEF on Wednesday became the third UN agency to launch an internal investigation into the sexual abuse of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and promised "serious consequences" for possible sins. The Children's Fund said in a statement that it was "shocked that people identifying themselves as UNICEF workers have allegedly abused vulnerable women in the Democratic Republic of Congo." It was not immediately clear how many UNICEF staff had been charged. "There will be serious consequences for any staff…

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, about 50 women accuse employees of UN agencies and international NGOs of sexual abuse. WHO, among the accused agencies, announces the initiation of an investigation. This reveals a signed study The New Humanitarian and Thomson Reuters Foundation. Facts would have taken place between 2018 and 2020 as part of the fight against Ebola viruses. Women who never reported the rapes for fear of retaliation are accusing several employees of UN agencies and NGOs of sexual abuse. They are…