Central African Republic: First-ever SCC trial ensures alleged war criminals face justice
On 19 April 2022, the Special Criminal Court (SCC) opened a trial against Issa Sallet Adoum,…
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…
On 7 April 2022, every year, the commemoration of the 1994 Rwandan genocide begins in…
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…
Journalist Joel Egah, 43 years, was buried in Lomé on Saturday 19 March 2022. He…
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…
Muhammad Adam, who is 17 years old , stands in the front lines of the…
Fighters affiliated with the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) deliberately killed dozens of people, gang-raped…
The lifting of ban on four newspapers that had been barred from publishing since 2016…
The October 25 coup authority in Sudan carried out large-scale arrest campaigns that resulted in…
Circular no. 530/569 / CAB / 2022 issued by the Ministry of the Interior and…
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…
Human trafficking organized within the UNHCR Dzaleka refugee camp was discovered in Malawi. The victims…
In the past few years there has been an exponential increase in large land-based investments,…
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…
North-Eastern Sahara. External day. The desert is blinding, inhospitable, hostile. Our journey in the footsteps…
Internationally renowned Algerian journalist Khaled Darren was arrested in the evening of 10 June along…
Seventy Nigerian, African and international non-governmental organizations have publicly expressed their strong condemnation of the…
Patrick Zaki’s pre-trial detention has been extended for another 45 days. His lawyer, Hoda Nasrallah,…
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…