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Increasing violence by a pro-government militia, including executions, abductions and torture, is threatening to destabilise crisis-wracked Burundi, the United Nations human rights chief warned Tuesday. “They could tip an already extremely tense

Israel’s deputy parliament speaker, lawmaker Oren Hazan, has said he will sue privately owned Channel 2 over a report alleging his involvement in pimping and drugs. “I have ordered my lawyer to

Bangladesh must step up efforts to halt an “epidemic” of child marriage throughout the country where nearly one third of girls wed before they turn 15, a rights group said Tuesday. Although

The Kaduna State House of Assembly on Tuesday, during its plenary session, elected its principal officers. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the assembly had on Monday elected Alhaji Aminu

Restrictive abortion laws in Ireland are risking the lives of pregnant women, Amnesty International said Tuesday, as it launched a global campaign to encourage Dublin to change the legislation. In Ireland, abortion

Botswana’s Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources, Kitso Mokaila, has inaugurated a water saving campaign entitled ‘Somarela Thothi’ in local parlance or Save a Drop to reduce waste of water in

Madagascan police smashed open the car windows of an opposition lawmaker late Monday and seized the equivalent of $74,000 in cash, reporters witnessed, two weeks after parliament voted to dismiss the president.

The Tax Appeal Tribunal, sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday adjourned till July 13, and Aug. 3, respectively hearing in the N1.2 billion suit filed against Federal Inland Revenue Service(FIRS) by 44 companies.

Japan must face up to the truth over its wartime system of sex slavery if it is to purge the stain of its past wrongs, the man who issued a landmark apology