The Kenyan gay couple who two years ago made headlines around the world after their civil wedding in London are back in the limelight again. Read more »
An NGO has accused Royal Dutch Shell, the parent company of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, of fuelling human rights abuses by paying huge contracts to armed ... Read more »
Malawi is teetering on the brink of financial collapse, as its access even to the IMF's agreed extended credit facility is cut. Read more »
Civil society organisations have been brought onto the playing field in a structured way as a specific part of the ANC's strategy to reinvent, reconfigure and resubmit the ... Read more »
A new report by the rights group, Amnesty International, has described conditions in four of Liberia's 15 prison facilities as appalling. But the country's Assistant Minister of ... Read more »
The human rights group, Amnesty International, has launched a campaign for the release of opposition politicians arrested ten years ago by one of the world's most oppressive ... Read more »
The National Transitional Council must get a grip on armed anti-Gaddafi groups to stop reprisal attacks and arbitrary arrests, Amnesty International has warned as it released a ... Read more »
The Press Ombudsman has ruled that The Sowetan newspaper's publishing of prominent pictures of two officers having sex while on duty was not in the public interest. Read more »
Libya's interim leader, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, has received a hero's welcome in Tripoli, where he appeared in Martyr's Square. Read more »
Can the North African uprisings possibly spark a similar wave of revolts in Zimbabwe, Uganda and Senegal as opposition groups and dissidents make their voices heard? Recent ... Read more »
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