Ethiopia escalates crackdown on civil society, suspending independent human rights groups, denouncing lack of independence and exceeding mandate.

In late 2018 a Saudi journalist living in exile in Canada, who liked to work out in between recording YouTube critiques of ...

Sudan's war is causing untold misery and threatening to spill over into the neighbourhood. In this excerpt from the Watch List 2025, Crisis Group explores how the EU and its member states can assist ...

There has not yet been a large-scale sweep by agents in any of those public spaces locally, but that hasn’t quieted fears. Rumors ricocheting across the region have for many begun to feel like a ...

The United Nations human rights chief on Thursday appealed for $500 million in extra-budgetary resources for 2025 to support ...

Amnesty International called for urgent international action to address what it described as "a state-led campaign of mass arbitrary detention" of thousands in Ethiopia's Amhara region, where people ...

Human Rights Watch joins twelve other human rights organization to urge the UK Foreign Secretary to secure the release of British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah during his trip to Egypt.

WASHINGTON - As tensions flared between Somalia and Ethiopia last year, social media became a breeding ground for ...

Syrian National Army (SNA) coalition that hit a Kurdish Red Crescent ambulance on January 18, 2025, in northern Syria is an ...

Iman Helles, a displaced mother sheltering in a facility run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza, fears that ...

A recent video of a woman being tortured in Libyan refugee camps is further proof that agreements signed by the EU and Italy ...