Angola, At Least Ten Protesters Killed Since 30 January
Ten deaths have been confirmed and according to some sources as many as 15. This…
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…
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…
Mumbere Sikuli Délivrance, Mukirania Consolée, Kasereka Muhetsya Ezée, Kakule Mutsuva Clovis, Nzila Patrick, Muhindo Aziz,…
Aamer Abdelmonem, an Egyptian freelance journalist who worked occasionally with the Qatar based media outlet…
The last thought I want to leave this year on this very important portal that…
That makes three. It was coming and he himself foresaw it. After Mohamed Basheer and…
As we get ready for the umpteenth weekend worrying and anxious about Patrick Zaki, who…
Three hearings in 20 days, between 7 and 26 October, and nothing has changed for…
In Guinea, following the election on 18 October confirming a third mandate for President Alpha…
The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, urged the government of Mozambique to investigate the escalation…
Not even the COVID-19 pandemic was enough to keep the promise made last year by…
“All five of my apolitical cousins that were unjustly detained as a reprisal for my…
Another massacre took place on Tuesday 20 October in two locations in Lagos, Alausa and…
On 22 September, the Cameroon police reacted by throwing teargas, water bombs and especially by…
The arrest of former member of parliament, Fabien Banciryanino, on 2 October is a bad…
In my last post on this website, I had written about the umpteenth announcement to…
He has been called several times since 3 October from an unknown number and told…
Every year, the Nigeria’s chief of police announces he will dissolve the Special Anti-Robbery Squad.…
Abass Hamadi Diallo, born in 1986, was in southern Mauritania on 28 May near the…
On 4 June, the Ntahangwa Court of Appeals upheld the sentencing of Agnès Ndirubusa, Christine…
A report published by Amnesty International on 29 May casts a dark shadow over the…
The community of human rights defenders in Egypt are worried about the fate of Mahienour…
In many countries in Southern Africa, the coronavirus has rapidly become a pretext to gag…
From 7 March to 13 April, coinciding with the news of the spread of the…
Chad has definitively abolished the death penalty that has been in force only for crimes…
There is little known about Mauritania, kept in the dark voluntarily because of power and…