African Union Delegation Meets Congo Rebels, Calls for Continued Peace Efforts
Reuters October 7, 2026 Former Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Ethiopia's President Sahle-Work Zewde, both African Union facilitators, attend a meeting as part of mediation efforts to discuss the peace process in efforts to negotiate an end to the war with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, October 5, 2026. REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi Former Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Ethiopia's President Sahle-Wor
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U.S. Moves Spy Drones to Ecuador to Combat Drug Trafficking
By Lucas Reynoso 7 October 2026 An MQ-9 Reaper drone during a training mission in Nevada. William Rio Rosado (EFE) The United States has sent spy drones to Colombia and Ecuador to support both countries’ actions against organized crime, two military sources told the newspaper The New York Times. The aircraft involved are an undetermined number of MQ-9 Reapers that had been stationed in Africa. Although their primary roles are linked to surveillance, they can be used in offens
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Dodik declared Bosnia ‘dead’. Irrelevant rhetoric or threat?
By Aljazeera Staff October 4, 2026 Credit: Dado Ruvic/Reuters Speaking at the final rally of his right-wing alliance ahead of Bosnia’s October 4 election, Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik delivered a predictably controversial statement. “Bosnia-Herzegovina is dead. It is an impossible country, it makes no sense,” Dodik told supporters of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) party in Banja Luka on Friday. “It is now nothing more than an empty shell … for those
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CNDIH Flags Arbitrary Detentions, Enforced Disappearances
By Breaking Burundi August 21, 2026 CNIDH says its prison visits uncovered widespread violations, including unlawful detention and cases involving civilians held for non-criminal offenses. Martin Blaise Nyaboho says 135 detainees were held beyond legal limits / CNIDH Burundi’s National Independent Human Rights Commission has said violations of human rights persist in the country, citing arbitrary and prolonged detentions, abductions, enforced disappearances and alleged abuses
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Mass Trials Put Hundreds in One Dock in El Salvador
By James Wagner October 7, 2026 Lawyers warn that the mass trials of people imprisoned during President Nayib Bukele’s gang crackdown are marred by vague evidence and restrictions on a proper defense. Credit: Alex Peña/Getty Across El Salvador, hundreds of inmates appear in court by video simultaneously for a single, joint hearing. Some lawyers say that they are first meeting their clients on the same day as their trial. And individual anonymous witnesses are testifying again
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Ex-Prisoners Reveal Torture, Scripted TV Confessions of January Protest Detainees in Isfahan
October 9, 2026 by Roghiyeh Rezaei IranWire has obtained accounts detailing severe torture and forced confessions extracted from several January 2026 protesters currently facing execution. Three former inmates of Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan, held between late January and mid-summer 2026, told IranWire that most of the young men executed or facing capital punishment in Dastgerd hail from working-class and marginalized backgrounds, working as laborers or coming from working-clas
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