Campaigners call for climate crisis global day of action during Cop27
Groups urge action during the talks in Egypt to demand climate justice for Africa and the global south Civil society groups around the world are...
Category : Middle East and North Africa
Prosecutors urged to examine French role in Egyptian airstrikes on civilians
NGOs want investigation into border counter-terrorism operation that allegedly ended up bombing suspected smugglers Two international NGOs have asked French prosecutors and the UN to...
‘Our lives are destroyed’: families take fight for truth of flight 752 to ICC
Exclusive: grieving relatives allege war crime and crime against humanity over January 2020 downing of aircraft When Ukraine International Airlines flight 752 was shot down...
Sudan accused of trying to ‘bury the truth’ with mass graves for protesters
Families demand DNA tests to identify if their relatives are among thousands of unclaimed bodies in hospital morgues The families of those missing after three...
Egyptian NGOs complain of being shut out of Cop27 climate summit
Civil society groups say covert screening process excluded government’s critics A group of Egyptian civil society organisations have been prevented from attending the Cop27 climate...
Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame, one of Somalia’s greatest poets, dies aged 79
Somali social media has been flooded with tributes to the man better known as ‘Hadraawi’ Messages of condolences continue to pour in from around the...
Casualties reported as jihadist group seizes hotel in Somali capital
Al-Shabaab fighters are still inside building in Mogadishu after fierce firefight with security forces Al-Shabaab fighters have seized control of a hotel in the Somali...
Sudan’s new community squad sparks fears of a return to ‘morality policing’
Fears the unit will enforce public order laws limiting women’s rights and freedoms amid crackdown since military coup Human rights campaigners in Sudan fear the...
At least 38 people killed as ‘tornado of fire’ rages in northern Algeria
Hundreds forced to flee homes and at least 200 injured as firefighters battle string of blazes in El Tarf province Algerian firefighters were on Thursday...
At least 41 people killed in Egypt church fire, say officials
Security sources say majority of dead are children after blaze breaks out at Coptic Abu Sifin church in Giza A fire sparked by an electrical...
