Ethiopia rights commission says 150 killed in attack in Oromiya
Reuters Gunmen killed at least 150 people last week in western Ethiopia in an attack by an armed group against local residents, the state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said on Thursday. The commission said residents in Gida Kiremu district in the Oromiya region of Eastern Wollega told investigators the gunmen were from the Oromo Liberation Army, which splintered […]
Who is ISIS-K, the group officials blame for the Kabul airport bombings?
RNS A horrific terrorist attack at a Kabul airport on Thursday has killed at least 12 US service members as well as more than 60 Afghans attempting to flee the country, a death toll US officials are attributing to an ISIS affiliate. The details of the attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport and a nearby hotel are […]
Updated: Dozens of civilians, at least 13 US troops killed in Kabul airport attack
Updated: 8:45am (AEST)Reuters Islamic State struck the crowded gates of Kabul airport in a suicide bomb attack on Thursday, killing scores of civilians and at least 13 US troops, disrupting the airlift of tens of thousands of Afghans desperate to flee. Kabul health officials were quoted as saying 60 civilians were killed. Video shot by […]
Brazil’s Indigenous protest ahead of landmark ruling over ancestral lands
Brasilia, BrazilReuters Hundreds of Indigenous people danced and chanted outside Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday to urge the justices not to rule in favour of a cut-off date of 1988 for their land claims, a proposal backed by the farming sector. The protest has drawn an unprecedented 6,000 Indigenous people from 176 tribes to camp […]
Great Works: The rock-hewn churches of Lalibela
In the headlines recently over fears for their future, DAVID ADAMS takes a look at Ethiopia’s famous rock-hewn churches…
Afghan all-girl robotics team members, journalists land in Mexico
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Five members of an all-girl Afghan robotics team and more than a hundred media workers have arrived in Mexico, fleeing an uncertain future at home after the recent collapse of the US-backed government and takeover by the Taliban militant group. “We give you the warmest welcome to Mexico,” said Mexican Deputy Foreign […]
Afghan women’s hard-won land rights seen at risk under Taliban
Thomson Reuters Foundation The Taliban’s return to power threatens Afghan women’s hard-won property rights, with thousands who fled their homes during the militants’ takeover at particular risk of losing their land and houses for good, rights groups and researchers said. The Taliban imposed a strict Islamic law that largely denied women property rights during its […]
Murders of activists in Colombia fell in first half, but violence persists -ombudsman
Bogota, ColombiaReuters Murders of human rights and community activists in Colombia were down to 78 in the first half of the year, the country’s human rights ombudsman said on Wednesday, but the attacks persist. The killing of activists is a top problem for the Andean country, with President Ivan Duque vowing he will not rest […]
Gunmen kill 36 villagers in Nigeria’s divided Plateau state
Abuja, NigeriaReuters Attackers shot dead at least 36 people and destroyed buildings in a night raid on a village near the central Nigerian city of Jos, officials said, in an area hit by repeated ethnic clashes. The gunmen went house to house killing residents in Yelwa Zangam late on Tuesday, a military spokesman said. Troops […]
Finding the disappeared: Colombia’s cemeteries may hold answers for families
JULIA SYMMES COBB, of Reuters, reports on the ongoing search for those who disappeared during 60 years of conflict in the South American nation…