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Zimbabwe: Rwandans refuse repatriation over extermination fears
Rwanda refugees resident in Zimbabwe are resisting moves to be repatriated to their homeland claiming that they would be killed once they set foot...
Mugabe, Zenawi, Bashir, Afwerki, Mubarak, Biya… World’s worst despots list
A United States based think tank, Foreign Policy/Fund for Peace has ranked President Mugabe as the second worse despots in the world after...
Giving Africa’s displaced people a new lease of life
It was a departure they never had time to prepare for. Seeking to escape death amidst fighting between the Senegalese army and rebels in...
Exhibition of forgotten refugees of the Sahara marks Refugee Week
A photographic exhibition marking Refugee Week opened this week in Brighton with images of refugees from one of the world's longest and most forgotten...
Albinos seek electoral representation in Uganda
Albinos in Uganda want a representation in parliament to safeguard against witch-doctors who more often than not kill them to perform ritual sacrifices.
They have...
DR Congo: Police suspected of killing top human rights activist
Human rights groups have linked the death of Congo’s top human rights activist to the Congolese police. The Voice for the Voiceless rights group...
Malawi could lose millions in aid after gay verdict
Malawi risks forfeiting its annual aid donations from the United Kingdom and other western partners if it does not reverse the court verdict of...
Malawi gay sentence attracts international condemnation
Malawi has attracted international criticism after a court slapped a black gay couple with a 14 year jail sentence with hard labour.
The two men,...
Ethiopia rejects U.S. claims as Ambassador assumes office
After months of strong statements between Addis Ababa and Washington, over Ethiopia’s decision to jam Voice of America’s Amharic service, a new U.S Ambassador...
Rwanda: Political oppression or insurance of civil stability
US-based Human Rights Watch has accused Rwanda’s president Paul Kagame of attacking and intimidating his critics in the run-up to Augusts’ presidential election, but...
Western Saharan hunger strikers and Morocco’s human rights violations
Worldwide appeals have been launched in support of thirty-six Saharawi hunger strikers reaching their 29th day of protests. The wave of hunger strikes, which...
A hunger for justice in Western Sahara
Anyone who saw the episode of the BBC documentary Tropic of Cancer last month in which journalist Simon Reeve travelled across Western Sahara would...
Zimbabwe’s list of shame and Oskar Schindler’s list
"He who saves the life of one man, saves the world entire", so says Ben Kingsley acting as Itzhak Stern in Steven Spielberg’s award-winning...
ICC Prosecutor is given authorisation to open an investigation in Kenya
The FIDH and its member organisation, the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), welcome the decision rendered yesterday by the judges of Pre-Trial Chamber II...
Chomsky’s optimism of the will
The mood of excited anticipation in the crowd is one more usually associated with a pop concert than with a lecture by an octogenarian...
Spearheading a Grass-Roots Movement for Change in Kenya
There were three times Ann Njogu considered quitting her work in human rights activism in Kenya. The first was when a woman walked into...
Liberian Children take to the airwaves on International Children’s Day of Broadcasting
Amidst a celebratory atmosphere and fanfare, over 60 Liberian children took over UNMIL Radio airwaves on this year's International Children's Day of Broadcasting (ICDB)...
Zimbabwe death row inmates unsure of fate
Fourty nine death row inmates in Zimbabwe’s jails live in perpetual fear as they have no clue when the executioner will show-up.
All 49 of...
Sudanese to access web freely despite sanctions
The United States has moved to ensure that Sudanese can exercise their universal right to free speech and information to the greatest extent possible....
Africa: Cleaning out armies’ ranks to protect women
The massacre of nearly 200 opposition demonstrators in Conakry, Guinea, in late September 2009 shocked Africa and the world. Beyond the sheer brutality of...
DRC: Prostitutes claim their rights
Beatings, insults, rape ... Prostitutes in the city of Mbuji Mayi in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) live very tough lives. Rejected by...
Nigeria: Police officers arrested for extra-judicial killings
A video footage released by Al-Jazeera TV, showing Nigerian police officers carrying out extra-judicial killings, has led to the arrests of about 17 officers....
Ugandan minister lashes out at Anglican cleric over gay-bill
Uganda's minister of state for ethics and integrity, James Nsaba Buturo
has condemned the pro-gays who today presented a petition to Uganda's
speaker of parliament requesting...
Southern Sudan human rights abuses denounced
An Independent human rights specialist, Muhammad Chande Osman, has revealed that the Southern Sudan government lacks the capacity to adequately protect it's citizens' human...
Morocco: The sorry state of freedom
The head of Le Journal Hebdomadaire, Aboubakeur Jamai, Wednesday announced his decision to go into exile in protest against the closure of his newspaper....
Zimbabwe: International organisation attacks Morgan Tsvangirai
Zimbabwean Prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai has come under rare attack from an international human rights group accusing his party of shielding
abuses by ZANU PF...
Zimbabwe: Prisoners move around naked in squalid conditions
A recent report has revealed the growing state of hopelessness in Zimbabwean prisons as a large number of prisoners languish without clothes. The impoverished...
Matters of life and death in Western Sahara
Just weeks after one human rights activist cheated death by hunger strike, seven others have appeared before a military tribunal facing the death penalty.
On...
Eritrea: National football teams thousands flee for dear life
The repressive and authoritarian government regime in Eritrea has suffered a new disapproval as its national football team refused to return to the country...
DR Congo: UN warned of military support against Rwanda rebels
U.S based human rights group has urged the United Nations Peacekeeping mission to abstain from supporting the military campaigns launched by the government armies...