Liberia: Prisons Report Upsets Assistant Minister

The Liberian government has rejected criticism of conditions in its prisons made by an international human rights group. Read more »

Libya: Burkina Faso and Niger Back Gaddafi's Victims

There is good news in the world of international justice: Burkina Faso and Niger have said unequivocally that they will not give safe haven to former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi… Read more »

Sudan: Obama Names Two Experienced Diplomats to Team As Problems Mount

President Barack Obama has tapped two experienced U.S. diplomats to represent him in Khartoum and Juba as tensions grow between Sudan and South Sudan. Read more »

South Sudan: New Govt Must Prepare for Scrutiny - U.S. Activist

In the Republic of South Sudan, partition has created both opportunities and obstacles. Against a backdrop of regional and ethnic tensions, reports of human rights abuses continue… Read more »

South Africa: Cape Town's 'Spiritual Genocide'

Excerpts from "The Truth is on the Walls," the story of Naz Gool Ebrahim a civil rights activist, from District Six, Cape Town, who struggled against the forced removal of her… Read more »

Malawi: Anti-Govt Protests Erupt in Clashes

Riot police beat up and arrested about 40 leaders of anti-government protests in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe, after protesters defied a court injunction stopping the demonstrations,… Read more »

Chad: Senegal Backtracks on Habre Extradition

Eleven years after being indicted on charges arising out of the torture and killing of his political opponents, Chad's former dictator, Hissan Habré, is set to stay in… Read more »

Gambia: Guinean Student Suspected of Fomenting Uprising Released

Authorities in The Gambia late Tuesday released a Guinean anthropology student who had been arrested two months ago for "spreading revolutionary ideas" and threatening national… Read more »

Senegal: Protests Against Electoral Law Turn Violent

Demonstrators clashed with police outside Senegal's National Assembly on Thursday as they protested against a constitutional amendment changing the rules of presidential elections. Read more »

South Africa: How Albertina Sisulu Helped Change U.S.-South African Relations

Albertina Sisulu has been celebrated in obituaries as a political leader in her own right, as the matriarch of a political dynasty whose stature rivals that of the Mandelas, and as… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Southern African Leaders Should Stand With Victims

As leaders of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) meet in Johannesburg this weekend in yet another attempt to resolve the Zimbabwe crisis, the question remains whether… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: In Memory of Floribert Chebeya

The lifeless body of Floribert Chebeya Bahizire was found in the back seat of his car on June 2 in a neighborhood not far from his home in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic… Read more »

Gabon: Obama Aide Defends Meeting With Bongo

President Barack Obama's spokesman has defended a decision to invite President Ali Bongo for a White House meeting on Thursday on the grounds that Gabon is an "important ally" of… Read more »

Africa: Somali Journalists Killed With Impunity

Somalia is the world's second most murderous country for journalists, says the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Read more »

Libya: Hague Prosecutor Seeks Arrest Warrant for Gaddafi

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, announced Monday that his office will seek arrest warrants on war crimes charges for Libyan leader… Read more »

Africa: World Marginalizes Continent in Quest for Democracy, Says Mbeki

Popular uprisings in North Africa have given a boost to democratization across the continent, but the world has marginalized Africa in the handling of recent crises in the… Read more »

Africa: Mobile Phones, Radio Promote Rights, Says Amnesty International

Much needs to be done to secure human rights in Africa, but "the tide is turning" and mobile phones and FM radio have arguably done more than most other conventional methods to… Read more »

Eswatini: Police Fire Teargas, Rubber Bullets at Protesters

Swaziland's paramilitary police force engaged in sporadic running battles with protesters, fired teargas and rubber bullets, and detained activists in a bid to crush a proclaimed… Read more »

Eswatini: Govt Cracks Down on Protesters

Swazi authorities cracked down on union and opposition activists on Tuesday in an attempt to crush anti-government protests which democracy campaigners called for this week. Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Gbagbo Should Not Receive 'Golden Exile'

Now that Cote d'Ivoire's Laurent Gbagbo has been detained in Abidjan after a four-month stand-off that brought the nation to full-scale war, the incumbent president should be held… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: 'I Won't Go!'

A public invective at the African Union heads of state panel (By Laurent Gbagbo, rightful ruler of South Ivory Coast):Jamais! I'll have the same thing Kibaki and Mugabe are having,… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Mugabe Supporters Lash Out at Zuma

Close allies of President Robert Mugabe have responded to criticism from  Zimbabwe's neighbours by launching unprecedented, scathing attacks on South African President Jacob… Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Will A Unity Govt Resolve Nation's Crisis?

Côte d'Ivoire is on the brink of civil war. Its president since 2000, Laurent Gbagbo, is refusing to cede power to Allasane Ouattara, the putative winner of elections last… Read more »

Eswatini: Protesters Plan to Bring Capital to Standstill

Civil society and union activists will join students in a mass protest against the Swazi government on Friday. Read more »

Cote d'Ivoire: Gbagbo Threatens Peace, Economic Progress, Says Top U.S. Official

Ivorian leader Laurent Gbagbo is "an ongoing threat" to peace and economic progress in his country and must step aside, says Johnnie Carson, the top United States official dealing… Read more »