The ghosts of the Mau Mau rebellion still haunt central Kenya -- 46 years after independence.
The National Assembly has decried the excruciating condition of prisoners in the country, adding that the situations being faced by prisoners are agrarian and odd with other prison management in the world, hence the need to revive the system as truly sound reformation centers.
As the world celebrated World International Human Rights Day, human rights activists that converged on Lagos have called for the immediate resignation of President Umaru Yar 'Adua, who has now spent over 19 days in a hospital in Saudi Arabia.
Following the furore by the international community and threats to cut the much needed donor aid over the Anti-Homosexuality legislation, Inside Politics' Ismail Musa Ladu, and Risdel Kasasira face-off Sheikh Nsereko Mutumba, the public relations officer of the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council and Dr Nsaba Buturo, the Ethics and integrity minister on the matter.
The text of the Final Communiqué of the Ninth Session of the International Contact Group On Guinea (ICG-G) after a meeting in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on December 13, 2009, issued by the Ecowas Commission and the African Union Commission: 1. The ninth session of the International Contact Group on Guinea (ICG-G)1 was held at the "Ouaga 2000" Conference Centre in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso ...
Let us suppose, for the sake of argument, that gay sex is completely alien both to Ugandan culture and to the versions of Christianity that Ugandans espouse. Why bother, then, to legislate against it? Is it necessary to ban people, on pain of death, from doing what is culturally and religiously alien to them?
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has asked the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) to put its house in order for the Kebbi Central Senatorial by-election rather than blame the commission for its inadequacies.
"WE can increase the percentage by whatever we think is minimal. ... It could be fifty percent-plus-one. We can say fifty-two, fifty-three, up to fifty-five. We can go as far as that."
Emaciated, smelly and infested with jiggers, the 15-year-old boy who was found abandoned in a chicken house at Miralambo village in Rakai District two weeks ago could not talk or walk when a local inspection team came to his rescue.
PROFESSOR Monica McWilliams, the chief Commissioner, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, was in Uganda for a week's visit and shared her impressions of the conflict resolution. Susan Muyiyi had a chat with her.
Civil Society groups and human right activists under the aegis of Osun State Civil Societies Coalition Against Corruption and Rights Violation (OSCARV) weekend converged in Osogbo to mark the World Human Rights Day with a call on the Federal Government to ensure that the rights of the people are guaranteed.
A final report on funds collected under the One Dollar Campaign. is expected to be released today in the Diaspora convention taking place in Kigali.
THE Ministry for Gender and Labour closed down an orphanage in Wakiso district earlier this week and locked up the proprietor.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has held talks with the Foreign Minister of Morocco to voice his "grave" concern over an independence activist from Western Sahara who has been on hunger strike since last month.
The Islamic administration of Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a clerics has said on Saturday that the they will not use force for the decision of banning the headscarf from the women through Guriel district in central Somalia.
One hundred girls, protected from female genital mutilation, were paraded to welcome the delegation with a fanfare of Kankurang dance and other traditional entertainment at Makka Masireh.
Certain comments resonate long after they are made, and Shirley Yeama Gbujama's reported threat to "sew up the mouths of those preaching against Bondo" is certainly one of them.
In the darkest corner of the room, under the clamour of twelve women's voices, sits Ghati Chacha*, she can barely be heard. Her newborn suckles as she speaks softly about how she refused female circumcision.
In certain parts of Africa, female genital mutilation (FGM) has been linked to religion, with Muslim communities mistakenly believing that the practice is a religious requirement. But in Côte d'Ivoire, religion is also being put at the service of fighting FGM.
A United Nations General Assembly panel that met this week broke new ground and helped build new momentum for ending human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity, a coalition of sponsoring nongovernmental organizations said today.
The fate of Guinea hangs in the balance following the shooting of the country's military ruler, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara. There are fears that the fractured security forces could split further and trigger serious violence.
The United States has stepped up pressure on Madagascar's rulers to agree on a transitional government or face losing trade benefits under American law.
Christmas merry making may have come a little early for gender rights' activists in the country after Parliament yesterday passed a new law that outlaws and criminalises female genital mutilation.
While waiting in one of those interminable queues at a South African state hospital, Jullian Nwadu was asked when she was going back to Zimbabwe. "In December," she answered, welcoming what seemed like a stranger's attempt at making friendly conversation. "When you go, you mustn't come back."
THE situation at the Central Methodist Church in downtown Johannesburg, where as many as 3000 mainly Zimbabwean immigrants are living in appalling conditions, is untenable.
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