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Apollinaire Compaoré, Philip Morris International’s representative in Burkina Faso, was accused of sponsoring terrorism through tobacco smuggling in a report released this year
Additional sanctions have been imposed on Burma’s military dictatorship for its deadly response to pro-democracy protests by U.S.
Despite the fact that there is enough food to feed everyone on the Earth, 746 million people go to bed hungry every night. And 9 million people die each year as a result of famine
Thousands of civilians have fled their homes in the eastern province of Laghman as fighting between Taliban and Afghan government forces rages
Authorities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) have detained a woman in an internment camp on suspicion of “religious extremism” after she intervened in a domestic dispute between her neighbors, according to authorities.
In reaction to a recent outbreak of violence against Asian Americans, U.S. President Joe Biden signed hate crime legislation into law. Residents of Little Saigon in Southern California, on the other hand, claim that racism toward Asians is nothing new
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kenya’s Department of Gender reports a nearly quintupling of documented cases of gender-based violence
The niece of prominent Uyghur scholar and linguist-in-exile Abduweli Ayup has been confirmed to have died while being investigated by state security police in Kashgar (in Chinese, Kashi) Prefecture in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), according to official sources
Uganda is home to Africa’s largest refugee population, and psychologists claim that since the COVID-19 pandemic, the incidence of attempted suicides among them has increased
In Nigeria, rising instability and communal violence seem to be strengthening separatist movements. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is one of these movements, advocating for an independent state in a region of Nigeria that attempted to secede more than 50 years ago