MEPs strongly condemn the excessive use of force by the Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) during the ongoing popular protests against price increases and President Omar al-Bashir’s regime. The Sudanese government recently decided to end subsidies on staple goods in response to aggravating inflation, which is now the second highest in the world…
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Zimbabwe internet paralysis
Zimbabwe suffered an internet paralysis on January 18 as a result of the authorities extended communications ban to exchange emails after days of deadly protests over fuel price increases. Deeply concerned by reports of violence, fatalities, internet shutdown and security crack-down this week in #Zimbabwe . I summoned Ambassador to @foreignoffice to discuss concerns in person….
Protests reporter released in Sudan
Sudan’s relevant authorities released Al Arabiya and Al Hadath correspondent Saad el-Din Hassan after he was summoned for questioning following his reporting of the recent protests in the country. #Sudan’s authorities released Al Arabiya and Al Hadath correspondent Saad el-Din Hassan after he was summoned for questioning following his reporting of the recent protests in…
Marrakesh: leaders sign Global Compact
Speaking at the start of the UN conference in Marrakesh where states gather to adopt the so-called Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, the Secretary General Antonio Guterres promoted the initiative, insisting developed countries needed more migration due to their declining birth rates and aging populations. UNSG @antonioguterres at #GlobalCompactforMigration Conference opening: #GCM is a roadmap…
EU diplomats prepare for Global Compact for Migration
“I believe there are two mistakes we must not make when discussing the global compacts” the EU top diplomat Federica Mogherini said, while addressing the plenary session of the European Parliament on the preparation of the Marrakech Intergovernmental Conference of 10-11 December on the UN Global Compact for Migration. . @FedericaMog #globalcompact powerful tool to serve…
South Sudan girls abuse by military
Government and rebel forces in South Sudan abducted hundreds of women and girls this year and many have been raped and forced into sexual slavery, the UN mission to the country informed. The UN reports warring factions in South Sudan abducted hundreds of women and forced them into sexual slavery https://t.co/5A6LpANIID — Insider Politics (@insiderpolitics)…
Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege – Nobel Peace Prize winner
The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict. Dr.Mukwege, a gynecologist and surgeon, has long worked to treat thousands of women and girls affected by rape and sexual violence in the…
U.N. issues devastating Burundi HR report
More crimes against humanity were committed in Burundi in 2017 and 2018, whipped up by rhetoric from top officials including President Pierre Nkurunziza, a U.N. human rights report said. Has the human rights situation improved in #Burundi ? “The answer is no”:#COIBurundi details summary executions, torture, sexual violence, arbitraryarrests and detention, and forced disappearances committed…
Trump concerned with killings of farmers in South Africa
President Trump tweeted that he had directed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to investigate “the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers”: South African farm killings — where victims are typically members of the country’s white, Afrikaans-speaking minority — are often extremely brutal in nature, involving prolonged periods…
Rwanda murderer of Belgium peacekeepers asks for asylum
Former Rwandan Major Bernard Ntuyahaga, sentenced in 2007 by the Brussels Court to twenty years in prison for his participation in the killings of the ten Belgian peacekeepers on April 7, 1994 in Kigali, has served his sentence. After his release from prison, he seeks asylum in Belgium, said the Secretary of State for Asylum…
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