A police statement said that 120 people were arrested on suspicion of using drugs but members of the LGBTI community said authorities disrupted a health meeting. Police ... Read more »
Mauritania does not have a law to prosecute gender-based violence and rape. In the past, almost all cases of sexual violence have gone unpunished. In a surprising turnabout, a ... Read more »
A total of 516 out of the 1,601 doctors on the state payroll face dismissal as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government continues to hold disciplinary hearings for all doctors who ... Read more »
Kenya's data protection bill has been coming on since 2015. The new bill signed by President Uhuru Kenyatta, complies with EU legal standards as the country looks to bolster ... Read more »
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 »
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