Months after Uganda’s passage of draconian anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, human rights advocates are sounding the alarm over the country’s failure to protect members of the community from online harassment. Amnesty International on Wednesday reported a recent uptick in such harassment, finding that following enactment of the Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) of 2023, attacks against LGBTQ+ people have [...]

The Ivory Coast National Security Council announced the dissolution of student unions across the country on Thursday, including the Federation Student and School Association of Côte d’Ivoire (FESCI), over their alleged involvement in criminal activities, including the killing of two students. The government opened a judicial inquiry into the killing of the students, carried out arrests [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on the Tanzanian government Wednesday to address increasing human rights violations ahead of local elections in mainland Tanzania scheduled for November 27. The country has recently witnessed several instances of arbitrary arrests of opposition supporters, and the extrajudicial killing of at least eight government critics. HRW denounced the government for [...]

High Commissioner of the UN refugee agency, Filippo Grandi, warned on Monday that displacement crises in Lebanon and Syria could worsen and urged effective solutions from stakeholders. In an opening statement to the Executive Committee at UNHCR’s annual meeting in Geneva, Filippo Grandi shed light onto the situation of about 123 million displaced persons and refugees [...]

Kenya lawmakers launched a motion in parliament on Tuesday to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua, accusing him of gross violation of the constitution, stirring ethnic hatred, and undermining the government. The motion, introduced by Enoch Wambua, who represents Kitui West, cites 11 grounds for impeachment under Articles 150(1)(b) and (2) and 145 of the Kenyan constitution. [...]

Tanzania police on Monday arrested opposition members, including prominent leader Tundu Lissu, and journalists in Dar es Salaam before planned peaceful protests calling on the government to address the abduction of opposition figures in recent months. The opposition had called for citizens to join in the rally, which the Tanzanian government had banned, citing security [...]

Swedish prosecutors indicted a 52-year-old woman for crimes against humanity, genocide, and war crimes over accusations of enslaving Yazidi women in Syria between August 2014 and December 2016. The defendant, Lina Ishaq, has denied the charges. The indictment comes 10 years after the so-called Islamic State (IS) attacked the Yazidi people, which the UN says [...]

Botswana’s former president Ian Khama appeared in a magistrate court in Gaborone on Friday to face charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and receiving stolen property, after returning from three years in exile. This comes only one month before the general election in which his former vice president and now rival, President Mokgweetsi Masisi, [...]

Fiery protests sparked outside Argentina’s congress on Wednesday after the Chamber of Deputies voted to block a bill instating an increase in pensions. Previously, the bill had been vetoed by President Javier Milei, who says his priority is to maintain fiscal balance. The opposition failed to secure the two-thirds vote needed to overturn the presidential [...]

Less than a week since the resignation of the former inspector general of police, Japhet Koome, Amnesty International and other organizations called on President William Ruto Wednesday to hold a competitive recruitment process for the the next inspector general (IG) and restore the role of the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) in recruiting all senior [...]