Matthew Petersen

Tunisia fails women five years after law to protect them, HRW says

Tunis – Authorities in Tunisia have not done enough to protect women against domestic violence despite progressive legislation it... Read more

9 Dec, 2022

Ouagadougou – At least 12 people, most of them civilian volunteers supporting the armed forces, were killed in northern... Read more

9 Dec, 2022

Kinshasa – Aid workers in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) warned Thursday of a possible “health disaster”... Read more

9 Dec, 2022

N’Djamena – Eighty minors who had been arrested and held in a desert prison following deadly protests in Chad... Read more

9 Dec, 2022

Rome – An Italian court has ordered the state to restore a German charity vessel seized in 2017 over... Read more

9 Dec, 2022

Ouagadougou – Military-ruled Burkina Faso has awarded an exploration permit for a new gold mine to Russian firm Nordgold,... Read more

9 Dec, 2022

Donoso – Rising up through the lush vegetation of Panama’s Caribbean coast, a 125-metre chimney serves as a beacon... Read more

9 Dec, 2022

Kampala – Uganda on Thursday received its first shipment of trial vaccines against a strain of Ebola that has... Read more

9 Dec, 2022

Paris – Iran carried out its first known execution on Thursday over the protests that have shaken the regime... Read more

9 Dec, 2022

Johannesburg – South Africa on Friday said it would decriminalise sex work, hoping to tackle high levels of crime... Read more

9 Dec, 2022