December 11, 2007
Africa: 'Elders' Condemn Human Rights Abuses
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has joined leading international figures in appealing to the global community to fight human rights abuses in countries including Sudan, Zimbabwe and Chad. Read more »
December 10, 2007
Africa: Our Tradition Upholds Free Speech, Democracy
To suggest that Africans do not care about free speech, electoral fairness or misappropriation of public funds is to misread African traditional culture, write Kwaku Asante-Darko… Read more »
December 05, 2007
Liberia: New Study Spotlights Sexual Violence
Preliminary findings of a new study by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Columbia University may have given relief workers the evidence they say they need to focus… Read more »
Africa: UN Chief Calls for Arrests of War Crimes Suspects
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on the international community to do more to help arrest leaders indicted on war crimes charges. Six Sudanese and Ugandan… Read more »
December 04, 2007
Zimbabwe: U.S. Tightens Sanctions Screw
The United States is to bar the children of some Zimbabwean officials from studying in the United States. Read more »
November 30, 2007
Uganda: Judicial System Fails Women, Says Amnesty
Human rights group Amnesty International today accused the Ugandan judicial system of failing to act against the widespread rape and sexual abuse of women in the north of the… Read more »
Liberia: Free Speech Emerges Under New Rule
Launching a new AllAfrica feature, blogs written by members of AllAfrica's staff, Boakai Fofana - who works from our Monrovia office - reflects on the return of free speech to… Read more »
November 28, 2007
Sudan: Rights Group Criticizes Firms Over Darfur
An anti-genocide group has strongly criticized major international companies sponsoring the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China for their silence on the ongoing crisis in the… Read more »
October 28, 2007
Nigeria: Sharia Court Bans Satirical Play
Early in October, Shehu Sani started preparations for the opening of his third play, The Phantom Crescent. He wanted to perform it outside, in a park in Kaduna, where people could… Read more »
October 25, 2007
Congo-Kinshasa: Preventing Backslide Into War
Joseph Kabila, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, visits the White House today to discuss challenges to his country's fragile democracy. The last time a… Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Rights Group Accuses Forces of Abuses
Human rights group Amnesty International accused Democratic Republic of the Congo security forces of serious human rights violations, including extra-judicial executions, in a… Read more »
October 16, 2007
Eritrea: Country Ranks Last in Press Freedom Index
Eritrea has been ranked last in an annual index measuring press freedom around the world. The index was released Tuesday by Reporters Without Borders, an organization that defends… Read more »
October 03, 2007
Ethiopia: Advocate Says Ogaden Crisis Strikingly Similar to Darfur
A human rights advocate has told the United States Congress that the current situation in the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia has striking similarities to Darfur in the run-up to… Read more »
Ethiopia: U.S. Congress Acts on Human Rights
The United States House of Representatives has passed a bill supporting human rights and democracy in Ethiopia. Read more »
September 25, 2007
Zimbabwe: Stop Rights Violations Now, Says Tutu
South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday made a new attack on human rights violations in Zimbabwe. He said in a statement he was "devastated" by the… Read more »
Africa: New Governance Index Is 'An African Effort' for Development
The "Ibrahim Index of African Governance" announced in London and Cape Town on Tuesday is a project of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which was established as part of the vision of… Read more »
Africa: New Survey Picks Continent's Best, Worst-Governed Nations
Mauritius is sub-Saharan Africa's best-governed, and Somalia its worst-governed country. Seychelles, Botswana, Cape Verde and South Africa are also in the top five best-governed… Read more »
September 20, 2007
Ethiopia: UN Report Warns of Food Crisis in Ogaden
Parts of eastern Ethiopia could face a major food crisis if the shortage in the region is not immediately addressed, an inter-agency United Nations report released Wednesday… Read more »
Sudan: Group Calls for Armed Protection of Darfur Civilians
Human Rights Watch has urged the African Union and the United Nations to give their joint Darfur peacekeeping force "rapid response" capabilities, with enough attack… Read more »
September 13, 2007
Congo-Kinshasa: End Sexual Violence in Eastern Region
In this statement, former UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa and current Co-Director of AIDS-Free World Stephen Lewis calls for a new UN initiative to end sexual violence in the… Read more »
Ethiopia: Ogaden Leaders Accuse Govt of 'Genocide'
Leaders of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (OLNF), a rebel group fighting against the Ethiopian government, have accused the Ethiopian army of committing crimes… Read more »
September 08, 2007
Morocco: Elections May Mark Islamist Revival
A moderate Islamist group that had the third-highest number of seats in Morocco's lower chamber of Parliament expects to be the biggest beneficiary in the country's… Read more »
September 06, 2007
Somalia: Crisis Among World's Worst, Says Rights Expert
The scale of human rights abuses and the displacement of people in Somalia has made it among the world's worst situations of its kind, a rights expert has told a meeting in… Read more »
Somalia: Another Journalist Threatened
The organising secretary of the National Union of Somali Journalists, Ali Moallim Isak, received threatening phone calls after two gunmen arrived at his office only to find that he… Read more »
August 24, 2007
Sudan: Govt Accused of Breaking Darfur Arms Embargo
The human rights group, Amnesty International released photographs Friday showing the Sudanese government continuing to deploy offensive military equipment in Darfur in what the… Read more »