Tag Archives: #HumanRights

Pope Leo arrived in Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday for the final leg of his four-nation Africa tour, delivering pointed criticism...

Thousands of protesters marched through the Moroccan capital Rabat on Sunday, rejecting a new Israeli law that would allow the...

A court in Senegal has delivered the first conviction under a new law that increases penalties for same-sex relationships, marking...

A court in Eswatini has ruled that the first five migrants sent there under a controversial deportation arrangement with the...

The Gambia has appointed a special prosecutor to pursue long-delayed justice for crimes committed under the rule of former president...

Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has signed into law a controversial bill that doubles the maximum penalty for same-sex relations,...

Aboubacar Sidiki Diakité, also known as Toumba, has died in custody, authorities confirmed on Wednesday. Diakité, a key figure in...

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has voted to recognise the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade as...

Investigators in Kenya have uncovered 32 bodies, most of them children, from a suspected mass grave in the western town...

A Tunisian court has sentenced human rights activist Saadia Mosbah to eight years in prison and fined her £26,000 ($35,000),...