Rights

Benin opposition leaders will not appeal jail terms, lawyers say

Cotonou – Two Benin opposition politicians sentenced this month to long jail terms will not appeal their sentences, their legal... Read more

21 Dec, 2021

Conakry – Guinean rights groups on Saturday protested a plan by the ruling military junta to rename the country’s airport... Read more

19 Dec, 2021

Libreville – Gabon’s president has asked for an investigation into allegations that a former coach for the country’s under-17 soccer... Read more

18 Dec, 2021

Tunis – Tunisian lawyers and rights activists lodged an appeal on Thursday against the imprisonment of two men for same-sex... Read more

17 Dec, 2021

Bissau – Guinea-Bissau state radio and television did not broadcast on Thursday, as public media employees started a three-day strike... Read more

17 Dec, 2021

Dakar – Two girls, including a 3-year-old, have died in Guinea after being sexually assaulted, rights groups said, calling for... Read more

16 Dec, 2021

Rabat – A Moroccan court has ruled that a member of China’s Uyghur Muslim minority, Yidiresi Aishan, can be extradited... Read more

16 Dec, 2021

Johannesburg – Kenyan asylum seeker Pallo Mandela dreamt of freedom on his seven-day bus journey to South Africa. His... Read more

16 Dec, 2021

Cotonou – Benin – once lauded as a poster child of good governance in West Africa – is facing... Read more

15 Dec, 2021

Dar es Salaam – Tanzania marked its 60th independence anniversary on Thursday, with President Samia Suluhu Hassan hailing the country’s... Read more

9 Dec, 2021