A human rights organisation called Civil Rights Realisation and Advancement Network (CRRAN) has petitioned Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah over the a...
A Somali court on Monday sentenced a freelance journalist to two months in prison on charges of threatening national security, according to a press as...
Somaliland soldiers were attacked on Saturday by militia, state television reported, despite a ceasefire imposed after heavy fighting earlier this wee...
The UN Human Rights Office in DR Congo on Tuesday revised the death toll from the Kishishe massacre to 171. In December, a preliminary UN inquiry d...
Dozens of rights and media groups urged Rwanda on Tuesday to conduct an independent and impartial probe into the death of a top journalist who was cri...
A prominent Kenyan LGBTQ campaigner whose body was found dumped in a metal box was suffocated and socks crammed in his mouth, a Kenyan government...
Uganda's Constitutional Court on Tuesday removed a key part of a controversial internet law that rights groups charged was aimed at stifling free ...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called on Chadian authorities to conduct an "independent investigation" into the violent protests in Ch...
The Human Rights Watch has described as brutal, the killings of civilians by bandit groups in towns and villages of the Republic of Niger. The grou...
A loan of $280 million from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to oil-rich Equatorial Guinea has caused debates and furore from rights mo...