In an interview with AllAfrica, the assistant director-general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and regional representative for Africa, Maria Helena ... Read more »
Human rights groups are complaining of attacks and intimidation by the country's security agents ahead of 2013 general elections . Read more »
Under the Same Sun Director Vicky Ntetema has refuted claims that there have been no Albinos killed in the last three years citing 119 assaults as evidence of ongoing brutality. Read more »
More than 10,000 antipersonnel mines were reportedly destroyed in the Sahrawi-occupied territories since 2005. Read more »
The Legal and Human Rights Center has called on the government to halt uranium mining until proper legislation is in place, citing unknown effects as reason for caution. Read more »
A health disaster deepens in the state of Jonglei as violence escalates and medical facilities are targeted and destroyed, according to a report by Médecins Sans Frontières. Read more »
The rights group Amnesty International has published an extensive study saying that people from poor social groups are at risk of being locked up for months, sometimes years, in ... Read more »
The elderly, lack "adequate formal social protection," the Acting Chairperson of Tanzania Social Workers Organization has said. Statistics have shown that there are approximately ... Read more »
Chronic malnutrition affects as much as two-thirds of inmates in some prisons and is the most common cause of deaths amid overcrowding and poor funding. Read more »
The government must rein in its security forces and launch a probe into allegations of civilian killings over cattle theft in the south of the country, says Amnesty International. Read more »
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