Zimbabwe: Detained opposition politicians denied access to their lawyers
Members of political opposition Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole were arrested on 14 June after attending…
Members of political opposition Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole were arrested on 14 June after attending…
Tanzanian authorities must immediately halt the violent forced eviction of the Indigenous Maasai community in…
A year ago, Algerian authorities shut down the “Hirak” pro-democracy protests in most of the…
On 19 April 2022, the Special Criminal Court (SCC) opened a trial against Issa Sallet Adoum,…
At least six inmates at the New Bell prison in Douala have died of cholera…
Amhara regional security forces and civilian authorities in Ethiopia’s Western Tigray Zone have committed widespread…
Thirteen activists from the citizen movement Lutte pour le Changement (LUCHA) were convicted by a military court…
Amnesty International urged the Egyptian authorities to immediately put an end to the shameful prosecution…
On 27 February, a machete-wielding gang appeared at Mbizo 4 shopping centre in Kwekwe, where…
The lifting of ban on four newspapers that had been barred from publishing since 2016…
Fighters affiliated with the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) deliberately killed dozens of people, gang-raped…
More than a hundred people from Cameroon’s Anglophone regions and its main political opposition party,…
On 3 January, a court in the capital Niamey sentenced two prominent journalists, Samira Sabou…
Egypt’s Court of Cassation yesterday confirmed the conviction against Amal Fathy, a women’s rights defender…
Today, 30 August, is the International Day of Enforced Disappearances, one of the cruelest human…
The Patriotic Front (PF), in power in Zambia since 2011, is seeking re-election on 12…
Internationally renowned Algerian journalist Khaled Darren was arrested in the evening of 10 June along…
Today at 4:00 pm the campaign that began on 8 February 2020 when the news…
Seventy Nigerian, African and international non-governmental organizations have publicly expressed their strong condemnation of the…
He offended the Prophet Muhammed in his posts and deserves three years detainment. This is…
Today, April 14, Amnesty International commemorated the seventh anniversary of the kidnapping of 279 Chibok…
The Passion, the Cavalry, the Via Crucis. The coincidence between the celebration of Easter and…
The International Criminal Court Appeals Chamber confirmed the acquittal of Laurent Gbagbo and Blé Goudé,…
Ten deaths have been confirmed and according to some sources as many as 15. This…
Today marks 100 days since the massacre at toll gate in Lekki, Lagos, where Nigerian…
On 30 May 2016, the former president of Chad, Hissène Habré, was sentenced to life…
A Nigerian Court of Appeals lifted, thankfully, the death sentence for 22-year-old Yahaya Aminu-Sharif who…
On 14 January, Uganda votes to elect a president, parliament and local representatives. The unrelenting…
A report published by Amnesty International today accused South Sudan’s National Security Services (NSS) of…
The cruel practice of the Egyptian judiciary system called tadweer (rotation) has struck again. This…