Peru violated rights of 13-year-old girl repeatedly raped by father, UN rules
Authorities denied pregnant Indigenous girl her legal right to an abortion and ‘re-victimised’ her, UN child rights committee says Peru violated the rights of a...
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‘I’m left with nothing’: Nigerians feel brunt of economic shakeup
President Tinubu’s policies please foreign investors, but a devalued currency and soaring petrol prices mean ‘national sacrifice mode’ is widely unpopular Nigerians are feeling the...
Sudan: paramilitary forces blamed for assassination of West Darfur governor
Khamis Abdallah Abbakar was murdered hours after criticising Rapid Support Forces on television Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been blamed for the assassination...
Greek shipwreck highlights divided Libya’s inability to stem flow of refugees
Absence of unified Libyan national government leaves Europe lacking effective allies to tackle people-smuggling trade The mass drowning of refugees heading from Libya for Italy...
Rescued children pay tribute to sniffer dog still missing in Colombian jungle
Wilson the Belgian shepherd featured prominently in drawings by Indigenous children as they recover in Bogotá hospital The four Indigenous children who survived a plane...
Outrage in Guatemala as crusading journalist given six-year prison term
José Rubén Zamora, 66, convicted and sentenced on money-laundering charges press freedom groups say were trumped up A veteran journalist and founder of one of...
Anguish as rape survivors in Sudan unable to access vital medication
Emergency contraception, HIV-prevention and abortion drugs are locked in a warehouse in Khartoum – leaving women to turn to desperate measures Rape survivors in the...
Kenya cult death toll passes 300, with more exhumations planned
More than 600 people still missing, authorities say, amid reports pastor ordered followers to starve themselves The death toll linked to a Kenyan pastor accused...
About 100 wedding guests feared dead as boat capsizes in northern Nigeria
Victims, including women and children, were reportedly returning from ceremony A boat carrying residents returning from a wedding capsized in northern Nigeria killing about 100...
Aid agencies raise alarm as solo children cross Chad border to flee Sudan fighting
Unicef says ‘more and more unaccompanied children’ among thousands of refugees streaming across 1,000km-long border Hundreds of unaccompanied children have crossed the border from Sudan...
