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September Marks Numerous Unresolved Journalist Killings Ahmed Mohamed Shakur, an SNTV journalist and cameraman, lost his life in a bomb explosion on September 30, 2022, in Basra town near Mogadishu. | PHOTO/ Courtesy/SJS. The International Press Institute (IPI) persistently demands Somali authorities step up against impunity for crimes against journalists. The state of press freedom in Somalia is distressingly precarious, with scribes being subjects of both harassment and threats from the government and the militant group…

The BNP Paribas group is suspected of complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan. This week, the victims of abuses by former President Omar el-Bashir's regime of French justice were heard. A judicial inquiry was launched in Paris two years…

The Congolese president continued his stay in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday in Beni and Butembo, northern Kivu, before landing in Bunia, Ituri. Felix Tshisekedia once again defended the besieged state established in these abused provinces. According to him, it should make it possible to put an end to the uncertainty but also to the army's "shenanigans" in the management of the…

Barely on duty, Karim Khan, the new prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, will find on his desk a request for an investigation into Chad. These are war crimes and crimes against humanity that are alleged to have been committed in the past year by the Chadian National Army against the insurgency, but also against the…

In an interview with RFI and France 24, Rwandan President Paul Kagame denied that his troops had been concerned in crimes dedicated throughout the two wars within the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He accused Dr. Denis Mukwege of being manipulated. These phrases evoke a cry from their neighbor. "There have been no crimes.…

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Former Jubaland security minister Abdirashid Janan has dropped all cases against him, two weeks after he left Jubaland, despite working closely with the administration of Ahmed Islam Mohamed Madobe. Janan, who had been instrumental in the administration of Madobe, shocked his supporter's aftershocks, which saw him lift allegiance to outgoing President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, who has been his enemy, on almost every political front. It is not clear why Abdirashid Janan chose to work with the…

A report released to members of the UN Security Council, which leaked to the press, "International Commission of Inquiry for Mali", made up of independent international experts, accuses armed terrorist groups and the Dan militia. Na Amssagou on crimes against humanity. All parties to the conflict, including the armed groups that have signed the peace agreements, but also and especially the Malian army,…

French prosecutors have launched an investigation by banking giant BNP Paribas into allegations of complicity in crimes against humanity, genocide and torture in Sudan, sources said on Thursday. The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), which had lodged a complaint against the French bank, announced on Twitter that an investigation had been launched, confirming information to AFP from a legal source. Almost a year ago, nine Sudanese victims backed by rights groups, including FIDH, filed a criminal complaint…