East-Africa
Madagascar: 4 months after Farafangana detention center mutiny
On August 23, 2020, a mutiny broke out in Farafangana Prison on the southeast coast of Madagascar. Of the 336 incarcerated prisoners,…
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North-Africa
Egypt, detention center for newshounds – media column
We are talking about the situation of journalists and bloggers in Egypt, as two of them have just been arrested in what…
West-Africa
controversy after the death of a political opponent in the prison in Conakry
A Guinean opponent, detained since September in Conakry, died Wednesday night through Thursday, December 17. Roger Bamba, in his forties, was a…
East-Africa
Ex-President Zambi still does not stand trial after 28 months in prison
Was former President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi sentenced to life? It is this question that his relatives have been asking themselves since Friday,…
Somalia
four years in prison for Patrick Djanga, AFDC and allied dissident leader
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Court of Peace announced its decision in the first instance on Thursday, December 3, regarding…
West-Africa
In Côte d’Ivoire, artists Yodé and Siro had been sentenced to at least one 12 months in jail
The Zouglou music duo had been instantly prosecuted for contempt of courtroom, discredited the judiciary and disseminated false info with racial and…
West-Africa
Ivory Coast: the film “The Evening of the Kings”, expiatory behind closed doorways in a fantasy jail
The French-Ivorian director Philippe Lacôte has chosen MACA, the Abidjan Jail (the biggest jail in West Africa), as the primary character in…
Central-Africa
Médecins Sans Frontières investigates rapists in Lubumbashi prison
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is organizing consultations for raped prisoners at the Kasapa Prison in…
Central-Africa
the forgotten victims of the rapes committed in Lubumbashi Prison
About fifty women who were raped in the Kasapa prison in Lubumbashi are still waiting to be taken into custody. These women…
North-Africa
the former boss of the bosses, Ali Haddad, sentenced to 12 years in prison on appeal
In Algeria, the court of appeal on Tuesday, November 3, ruled on Ali Haddad’s fate, embroiled in a corruption case. The former…
West-Africa
The Canary Islands, a new “prison” for migrants from Europe
In one week since October 17, more than 2,600 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and sub-Saharan Africa have arrived in the Spanish Canary…
