Ghana president seeks to reassure over economic ‘crisis’
Accra – Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has sought to reassure the country his government can manage an economic “crisis”... Read more
31 Oct, 2022
Family appeals for release of Tunisian woman jailed in Saudi for retweet
Tunis – The sister of a Tunisian woman jailed by Saudi Arabia for retweeting a post about Lebanon’s Hezbollah... Read more
29 Oct, 2022
Equatorial Guinea rapper freed after six weeks in custody
Malabo – Leoncio Pisco Eko, a rapper and critic of corruption and rights abuses in hardline Equatorial Guinea, has... Read more
29 Oct, 2022
Rights group says hundreds massacred in Mali by Islamic State jihadists
Niamey – Armed groups affiliated with the Islamic State group have massacred hundreds of people in northeast Mali this... Read more
28 Oct, 2022
UN ‘deeply concerned’ by Russia’s ‘LGBTQ propaganda’ law
Geneva – The United Nations said on Friday it was “deeply concerned” by Russian lawmakers voting to toughen up... Read more
28 Oct, 2022
Same-sex marriage now legal across Mexico
Mexico City – Same-sex marriage has become legal throughout Mexico after the state of Tamaulipas became the last in the... Read more
27 Oct, 2022
Egypt orders release of jailed activist Zyad el-Elaimy
Cairo – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned a former parliamentarian, lawyer and key activist from the 2011... Read more
25 Oct, 2022
Leading Zimbabwe lawyer arrested in court
Harare – A leading Zimbabwe human rights lawyer who has defended high-profile cases, was arrested in court on Friday... Read more
22 Oct, 2022
DRC army backed notorious Hutu rebel group: HRW
Kinshasa – The Democratic Republic of Congo’s army backed a notorious Rwandan Hutu rebel group in recent clashes with... Read more
19 Oct, 2022
Egypt military court cuts sentence of security expert
Cairo – An Egyptian military court on Monday reduced the sentence of security expert Ismail Alexandrani, whose incarceration since... Read more
18 Oct, 2022
