A documentary shoot in Togo has led to the detention of French journalists Gaël Mocaër and Sebastian Perez-Pezzani, as well as their Togolese fixer, after authorities charged them with making “false statements”…
Amnesty International is demanding an independent investigation into the fatal shooting of opposition member and former cabinet minister Mutotwe Kafwaya during a…
Six civilians were killed when more than 100 fighters from the Russian government-controlled Africa Corps, accompanied by Malian soldiers, raided a village…
U.S. and Nigerian officials have held their second Joint Working Group meeting as Abuja seeks removal from the U.S. Countries of Particular…
Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court has set aside a ruling in a case challenging part of the country’s abortion law. The challenge argues that…
Every morning, Sacdiyo leaves home to drive a bajaj through the busy streets of Mogadishu. Like thousands of other low-income workers, she…
Eight years after Zimbabwean security forces killed six people and wounded 35 during post-election protests on 1 August 2018, no one has…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo plans to finalize and release a comprehensive environmental audit of oil producer Perenco by the end…
Burkina Faso’s military government has been placed on Civicus’s 2026 watchlist amid what the human rights group calls a rapid and severe…
South Africa has moved to stop Ghana’s bid to put anti-immigrant demonstrations and xenophobic violence on the African Union’s October agenda, the…
Under mounting pressure from multiple fronts, the International Criminal Court (ICC) faces a deepening test of its authority: the US has threatened…
