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Bangladesh’s Armed Police Battalion (APBn) is committing extortion, arbitrary arrests, and harassment of Rohingya refugees already facing violence from criminal gangs and armed groups, Human Rights Watch said today. The Armed Police Battalion took over security in the Rohingya camps…

Nearly 25 million Nigerians are at risk of facing hunger between June and August 2023 if urgent action is not taken, according to the October 2022 Cadre Harmonisé, a Government led and UN-supported food and nutrition analysis carried out twice…

Suspected militants abducted roughly 60 women in insurgency-wracked northern Burkina Faso, local officials and residents said on Sunday. Roughly 40 were seized 10 kilometres southeast of Arbinda on Thursday and about 20 others were abducted on Friday to the north…

The Indonesian official newspaper (Republika) recalled the painful tragedy of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (peace be upon him) and the sacrifices it made in order to support the authentic Muhammadan religion. The newspaper said in an article, translated by…

The International Nonviolence Organization (Free Muslim) has expressed its strong condemnation of the escalation of racist rhetoric targeting Muslim communities in France, calling on the authorities to protect Muslims and work to limit the increasing dangers they face. In a…

Muslims in Germany are particularly vulnerable to discrimination based on their name and appearance, a racism survey has found. A government report said women with headscarves struggled to get jobs and children with Turkish names were marked down at school.…

Hundreds of people in the Somali capital Mogadishu, attended a government-organised rally on Thursday to protest against the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group. Al-Shabab has been waging a bloody uprising against the internationally-backed central government since 2007, carrying out attacks in Somalia…

Nine people were killed when suspected jihadists attacked a mosque in northeastern Burkina Faso, local sources said Thursday. The attack happened at around nightfall on Wednesday in the village of Goulgountou in Burkina’s Sahel region, when assailants arrived on motorbikes…

Last Saturday in Mirpur Khas, a city in Pakistan’s Sindh province, hundreds of people lined up for hours outside a park to buy subsidized wheat flour, offered for 65 rupees a kilogram instead of the current, inflated rate of about…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, criticized the US steps to combat illegal immigration, including measures taken by Washington to manage border areas with Latin American countries. “While I welcome the measures to establish and expand…