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Amnesty International on Monday highlighted the urgent need for justice for victims of the rebel armed group Revolution and Justice in the Central African Republic following the arrest of its former leader, Armel Sayo. Armel Sayo was reportedly detained in Cameroon in January and is being held at a military facility in the Central African [...]

The Trust Fund for Victims (TFV) at the International Criminal Court (ICC) welcomed on Friday the decision of the court to award victims €52.4 million in reparations for the war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by an African rebel group in Uganda. According to the fund, the decision is final as it has been [...]

JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, chief editor of LeftWord Books, and author of forty books including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World and The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World. In this interview, Prashad delves [...]

JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Aviva Chomsky, a historian, author, and activist whose work challenges dominant narratives about immigration, labor, and colonialism. Chomsky, a professor of history and the coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University, has spent over 30 years engaged in Latin American solidarity and immigrant [...]

A UN report released on Wednesday found that armed groups operating in the Haut Oubangui region of the Central African Republic (CAR) have been carrying out attacks against Muslim communities and Sudanese refugees, resulting in human rights violations. The report, prepared by the UN Human Rights Office and the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in [...]

Judi Rever is a Montreal-based journalist and author of In Praise of Blood, which investigates mass violence under Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s regime, using survivor testimonies, former soldiers, and leaked UN documents. A Ryerson journalism graduate, Rever covered the Congo-Rwanda crisis for Radio France-Internationale in 1997 and later reported for Agence France-Presse. Her work has [...]

The war in Sudan is driving continued refugee flight, leading to a deepening humanitarian crisis in the greater region, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported Friday. The agency said that more than 3 million people have fled Sudan, seeking safety in neighboring countries, since the war began in 2023. The refugees are faced [...]

A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report on Thursday revealed that recent armed clashes between Ethiopian government forces and the Fano militia exposed thousands of Sudanese refugees in the Amhara region to major risks, including of forced deportation, in violation of international humanitarian law. HRW urged Ethiopian authorities and the international community to take all necessary [...]

Constant Mutamba, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Minister of Justice, has been poisoned, according to a statement from the Ministry of State on Saturday. The minister underwent medical tests that morning after scientific police suspected poison exposure in his office. During their investigation, the police discovered a white powder on office furniture and equipment, [...]

The UN Security Council (UNSC) on Tuesday passed a resolution to lift the arms embargo on the Central African Republic (CAR) and decided that all UN member states shall take necessary measures to prevent the supply of arms to armed groups operating within the CAR until July 31, 2025. Resolution 2745 (2024) was passed unanimously [...]