Rights

Tanzania Maasai file case over wildlife protection area

Dar es Salaam – Maasai pastoralists have filed a court case against Tanzania’s government, challenging its decision to cordon... Read more

3 Nov, 2022

Cairo – Fifteen Nobel laureates called on COP27 host Egypt to release jailed dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah, in an... Read more

3 Nov, 2022

Rabat – A Moroccan woman sentenced to two years’ jail for “insulting Islam” in a Facebook post is almost... Read more

2 Nov, 2022

Cairo – Over 200 days into a partial hunger strike, jailed dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah will fully refrain from... Read more

1 Nov, 2022

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

Tunis – The sister of a Tunisian woman jailed by Saudi Arabia for retweeting a post about Lebanon’s Hezbollah... Read more

29 Oct, 2022

Malabo – Leoncio Pisco Eko, a rapper and critic of corruption and rights abuses in hardline Equatorial Guinea, has... Read more

29 Oct, 2022

Niamey – Armed groups affiliated with the Islamic State group have massacred hundreds of people in northeast Mali this... Read more

28 Oct, 2022

Geneva – The United Nations said on Friday it was “deeply concerned” by Russian lawmakers voting to toughen up... Read more

28 Oct, 2022

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