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[Dabanga] Geneva / Amsterdam -- A new UN Human Rights (OHCHR) report published yesterday lays bare the brutality and magnitude of conflict-related sexual violence in Sudan since the outbreak of the war in April 2023, and its profound, long-term impacts on victims, families and communities. The report finds that sexual violence has accompanied the geographic spread of the conflict, as well as displacement journeys. It has been used consistently as a tactic to terrorise and traumatise the civilian population.

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[The Conversation Africa] Few places in Africa have been as isolated and understudied as eastern Angola, particularly the highlands of the Moxico provinces, a region rich in biodiversity, culture and history. The country's political past helps explain this isolation. Having achieved independence from Portugal in 1975 after 11 years of war, Angola descended into a civil war that lasted 27 years, one of the longest conflicts in Africa.

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[African Arguments] During the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), attacks on treatment centres, resistance to contact tracing, and widespread distrust of responders repeatedly undermined efforts to contain the virus. A World Health Organization survey found that only around a third of respondents trusted Ebola responders, illustrating how fragile relationships between institutions and communities became part of the outbreak itself.

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[State Department] The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of Rwanda, the State of Qatar, the Republic of Togo (as the African Union mediator), and the African Union Commission on the occasion of the sixth Joint Oversight Committee held this week in London, England.

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Zambia the european union: In response to a formal invitation by the Government of Zambia, an EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) will be deployed to

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Zambia the european union: In response to a formal invitation by the Government of Zambia, an EU Election Observation Mission (EOM) will be deployed to

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One childs smile makes: Too often, children are recruited into conflicts they were never meant to be part of. Underage recruitment is one of six grave

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Ugandas middle east embassies: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, alongside the Ministry of Finance, Planning, and Economic Development, held a strategic

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HE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi received on Wednesday a copy credentials of HE Ambassador of the Federal Republic of

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World bank group report: Guinea-Bissau’s economy demonstrated notable resilience in 2025, according to the World Bank Group's Guinea-Bissau Economic

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International coalition supporting the: Bosnia and Herzegovina became the 50th member of the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children.

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While Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi appear to be in a personal battle to rewrite the World Cup record books, there is one landmark that appears beyond them.

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Annette Cowley was not allowed to compete at the 1986 Games as she was caught in a political storm.

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The global risk from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo remains low, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.

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Sexual violence has being used “consistently as a tactic and weapon of war” since the conflict in Sudan erupted three years ago. That’s the finding of a new report by the United Nations Human Rights Office.

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Kenyan prosecutors said Tuesday they will charge a number of students with murder of 16 schoolmates in the burning of a dormitory in late May that shocked the east African country.

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At a gold mine in Mongbwalu, necessity is forcing people to put aside their fear of the virus and carry on working.

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Angola is investigating a former general challenging President João Lourenço for leadership of the country’s ruling MPLA.

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[This Day] Uyo -- The Akwa Ibom State Commissioner of Police, Baba Mohammed Azare, has stated that despite being a major driver of economic growth, the Nigerian maritime sector faces complex security threats, including sea piracy, armed robbery at sea, kidnapping along waterways, illegal oil bunkering, pipeline vandalism, smuggling, human trafficking, environmental crimes, and other forms of transnational organized criminal activities.

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[Shabelle] Dhusamareb -- Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre arrived in the central city of Dhusamareb on Wednesday for an official visit to Galmudug state, where he was received by regional President Ahmed Abdi Kariye, known as Qoor Qoor.