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Unusual burial of man, thought to have been a potter, in sealed vessel may have helped DNA survive past four millenniaA man whose bones were shaped by a lifetime of hard labour more than 4,500 years ago has become the first ancient Egyptian to have his…
Drought is pushing tens of millions of people to the edge of starvation around the world, in a foretaste of a global crisis that is rapidly deepening with climate breakdown, according to a report.
A medical doctor and former nun, she found an affordable way to expand palliative care in the developing world, bringing pain relief to poor, terminally ill patients.
Seven Malian army positions in western Mali, some near the Senegalese border, were targeted in coordinated attacks early Tuesday, according to a military statement. No death toll was provided and the attacks, the latest in a new series, have so far no…
Barnabas Tinkasiimire, a Ugandan member of parliament critical of President Yoweri Museveni, was abducted over the weekend and apparently tortured before his release, a member of the law society said on Monday. Uganda has seen increased pressure on op…
An Algerian court on Tuesday upheld a five-year jail sentence for French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal who was arrested in November for saying in an interview that France had unfairly ceded Moroccan territory to Algeria during the colonial era.
Hit by a funding crisis, largely linked to a cut in the United States’ contribution, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has been forced to announce the suspension of a fact-finding mission into human rights abuses committed in eastern D…
Sonia Dahmani, a prominent Tunisian lawyer known for her criticism of President Kais Saied, was sentenced on Monday to two years in prison, her lawyers said. Human rights groups say theTunisian president has turned the country into an open-air prison …
The Kenyan man who was shot at close range by a police officer during recent protests over a blogger’s death in custody has died
Algerian authorities have sentenced a prominent French sports journalist to seven years in prison for “glorifying terrorism”, media rights campaigners RSF have said, denouncing the verdict as “nonsensical”. Christophe Gleizes, who contributes to the S…