The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has encouraged refugees and asylum seekers - who staged a sit-in protest outside the agency's offices in Cape Town for ... Read more »
Five current and former prisoners of Leeuwkop Maximum Correctional Centre are suing the minister of Justice and Correctional Services for alleged assault and torture by prison ... Read more »
The launch of Kizza Besigye's Twerwaneko national campaign has been interpreted by some as a means for him to return to the political arena. Although he has not explicitly ... Read more »
In light of a national campaign in Sierra Leone to reduce child marriages and teenage pregnancies, President Julius Maada Bio's has acknowledged that his government senselessly ... Read more »
Combat-ready troops were deployed in the capital Saturday as supporters of opposition party Cameroon Renaissance Movement Party defied a ban on protests against the outcome of the ... Read more »
Reporters Without Borders has welcomed the release of Hajar Raissouni, a Moroccan journalist held since 30 August who was sentenced on 30 September to a year in prison for seeking ... Read more »
Legal guarantees have not been enough to bring down the prevalence of female genital mutilation - rather it has been increasing and Guinea and other African countries, writes Dr. ... Read more »
After nearly 100 women and girls in Central African Republic accused Burundian and Gabonese peacekeepers of rape, sexual abuse, and exploitation, the UN deployed investigators to ... Read more »
The Committee to Protect Journalists, a media watchdog group has said that the countries on its list were home to the majority of killings over the past 10 years. Read more »
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called on the government to ease restrictions on dissent and freedom of expression, imposed since President John Magufuli came to ... Read more »
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