Appeal to Global Ceasefire: Violence Carried...

Niger currently lives divided between the presence of foreign troops – the United States, France, Germany and even Italy – and the attacks of Islamic fundamentalism,increasingly aggressive and gathered around the acronym of the Islamic State of the Greater Sahara. On the southern border, the army fights, together with Nigerian, Chadian, Cameroonian and Beninese troops, a war against the militiamen of Boko Haram

Human Rights Do Not Disappear Nor...

Choluteca: “About 300 people originally from Haiti, Cuba and Africa (mostly Haitians) have already overcrowded the rooms they had rented in Choluteca, Honduras for more than 24 days”, this is how the letter sent to Fides by the Pastoral Ministry of Human Mobility of Guatemala begins, in the face of the situation experienced by hundreds …

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Afghanistan: News Digest

The 203rd Thunder Corps in a statement said the Afghan forces effectively responded to a Taliban attack in Sahak area of Zurmat district, killing at least six militants

WHO Reports Surge in Coronavirus Cases,...

Compared with other regions in the world, the numbers of cases and deaths in Africa are still very low. But WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there were worrying signs that this was changing and that COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, was taking root

Southern Africa: Government Intervention is Required...

The organization is calling on governments to urgently put in place social protection measures to uphold the right to food. The measures to address food insecurity could include food subsidies for those living in poverty, and directly providing food to those who are unable to provide for themselves

East African Flower Industry Wilts as...

Flower exports add about $1 billion annually to the Kenyan economy. But with demand falling sharply, Kenyan exports have dropped by about two-thirds in recent weeks, costing the industry and the country millions in revenue

Facebook to Warn Users Who ‘Liked’...

The latest move is part of an unprecedented effort by Facebook, Google and Twitter that includes stricter rules, altered algorithms and thousands of fact checks to contain an outbreak of bad information online that’s spreading as quickly as the virus itself

China Holds Filmmaker Who Was Making...

Chen Jiaping, who has also used the name Chen Yong, was detained in early March on suspicion of “incitement to subvert state power,” according to multiple reports

Coptic Easter Among Closed Churches, “Condoned”...

The list of new Christian places of worship and condoned ecclesiastical properties was also disseminated in the Egyptian media last Monday, while Coptic Christian communities prepare to celebrate Easter on Sunday 19 April (according to the Julian calendar) without being able to access churches, due security measures put in place to deal with the coronavirus epidemic

Rights Groups Welcome Court Ban on...

The high court ruled Tuesday that security forces must respect human rights while enforcing the 21-day lockdown, which ends later this week. That followed an urgent petition from advocacy group Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, which said it had recorded several rights abuse cases by the army and police