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Exclusive: Johnston Busingye formally appointed days after UK agreed Rwanda asylum deal with Paul Kagame in 2022

Vietnam’s top security official To Lam was confirmed Wednesday as the nation's new president. He oversaw police and intelligence operations over a period when rights groups say basic liberties have been systematically suppressed, and its secret service was accused of violating international law.

In mid-June 2023, more than 500 people died after the fishing boat they boarded capsized.

Rwanda's post-genocide transformation has been remarkable, but uneven. And it prompts many questions, including: what type of leader is needed to help a country grow and heal?

Human Rights Watch says Clementine De Montjoye’s case raises fresh questions about UK’s asylum seeker scheme

New documents verified by FRANCE 24 illustrate the scale of the atrocities committed by the Burkina Faso army on February 25, 2024. In April, the NGO Human Rights Watch reported the massacre of 223 civilians, including women and children. New evidence shows other killings committed by the army between May…

A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced the former head of a pro-Kurdish party to 42 years in prison for his alleged role in deadly 2014 protests that erupted as Islamic State group jihadists overran the Syrian town of Kobane.

The ‘Russia law’ will make it hard for Georgia to join European Union, argue protesters, the US and Baltic states.

Human Rights Watch says aid workers’ convoys and facilities have been targeted at least eight times since last October.