Nima Elbagir

It’s very hard to know what is happening in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, because the government has endorsed a communications blackout. But a CNN team at the Sudan-Ethiopia border spent days gathering testimony from refugees who say they were targeted because of their Tigray ethnicity.

They were abused at the same school a decade apart and failed by the Catholic order meant to safeguard them.

As Sudan grapples with the end of Omar al-Bashir’s 30-year dictatorship, music has become a defining part of the protest movement, with singing and dancing continuing around the clock.

Beaten in the streets, taken to secret “ghost houses” and submitted to freezing torture techniques. Despite former detainees’ accounts of Sudan’s brutal crackdown, the US is still offering closer ties.

The United States imposed sanctions against six men for their involvement in human trafficking and smuggling of migrants in Libya in a case first exposed by a CNN undercover investigation.

Six men who allegedly made fortunes from buying and selling migrants have been hit by UN sanctions in an unprecedented response to the slave trade exposed by CNN, the Dutch foreign ministry said Thursday.