Human Rights Watch and other civil society groups are sounding the alarm over what they describe as a worsening erosion of the rule of law, judicial independence and human rights in Tunisia.…
A Monrovia court has rejected a request to move former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor from police custody to either home confinement or…
After a six-year closure, Zambia’s radiotherapy and imaging facility has reopened, raising hopes for patients battling cancer. Yet survivor and advocate Karen…
President Bola Tinubu has ordered security agencies to track down armed kidnappers responsible for attacks on four villages in Niger State, where…
A former Libyan security official is set to face trial at the International Criminal Court after judges confirmed 17 charges of war…
President Cyril Ramaphosa has vowed that anyone responsible for violence against foreign nationals will face arrest and prosecution once police have collected…
After nearly 18 months of uncertainty, the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) has restored funding for research in South Africa,…
At least 30 people have died and 22 others were injured when a mound of rubbish collapsed onto homes at a major…
Police in Nigeria have rescued 75 Fulani travellers—men, women and children—who were abducted from commercial buses in Kaduna State and held captive…
A new agreement between the Democratic Republic of Congo’s government and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group establishes a system for monitoring ceasefire…
One hundred days into the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, international health officials say the epidemic can still be…
