The latest crisis in Egypt points to the urgent need for the government to begin transforming the security sector, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2013 - which also ... Read more »
A Niger Delta farmer will receive compensation after a Hague Court found Shell's local subsidiary "partly liable" for damage to farmlands. Read more »
Human rights programme manager Leo Chamahwinya who is facing charges of "publishing or communicating falsehoods" together with his three colleagues has applied for a new bail ... Read more »
For the second year in a row, the country occupies one of the worst positions in the 2013 Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders. Read more »
The country's traditional leadership insist that child marriages are allowed under customary law despite the banning of such unions by modern courts. Read more »
The Israeli health department has called on doctors to stop injecting Ethiopian women migrants with contraceptives without their knowledge or consent. Read more »
The government has dismissed a report by Human Rights Watch that it favours the resettlement of internally displaced people from certain communities. Read more »
Refugees in urban towns in the country caught a break following a High Court ruling that has provisionally stopped the move. Read more »
A new report from Amnesty International documents a series of cases where Cameroon's government under President Paul Biya has used fear, intimidation and imprisonment to clamp down ... Read more »
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor has expressed optimism about winning his appeal hearing as defence lawyers challenge the court's April verdict. Read more »
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