Nigeria disbands brutal police unit but protests continueFootage of men dragged from Lagos hotel and one being shot fuels demonstrationsTue Oct 13 2020 - 18:38
Mental health crisis across Africa as pandemic disrupts servicesHalf of 30 countries globally with highest suicide rates are in Africa, says WHOFri Oct 09 2020 - 18:12
Refugees locked up for two years in Libya call for evacuationMigrants continue to endure arbitrary and indefinite detention in dire living conditionsSun Sept 27 2020 - 15:10
Westlife’s fans across Africa: ‘I listen to them every day’The Irish boyband is incredibly popular across Africa - so why have they never toured there?Sat Sept 26 2020 - 06:00
Refugees experience ‘catalogue of cruelty’ when intercepted and returned to LibyaAmnesty says 8,500 men, women and children returned to Libya this year were locked up, ‘disappeared’ or sent to detention centresThu Sept 24 2020 - 00:01
‘We are not here for ceremony’: The indignity of a coronavirus burialUganda Letter: In a country that dealt with Ebola 20 years ago, many healthcare workers risk going too far implementing controls during burialsTue Sept 22 2020 - 18:34
Evictions and hunger: life in Kampala as Covid cases surgeThey came to Uganda in search of a new life. Now, they’re facing eviction and destitutionMon Sept 21 2020 - 17:37
Burundians responsible for serious rights violations continue to enjoy impunityUN inquiry says torture, rape and arbitrary detention among the wrongdoings documented over the past 16 monthsThu Sept 17 2020 - 19:28
Ethiopia and Eritrea celebrate the beginning of 2013September 11th marks New Year’s Day according to the Ethiopian calendarFri Sept 11 2020 - 18:45
Congolese Nobel laureate Denis Mukwege placed under UN protectionDoctor has been vocal about need to end use of sexual violence as a weapon of warThu Sept 10 2020 - 18:59
Ethiopia’s Tigray region defies government and holds electionVoters turn out for regional ballot despite federal authorities declaring it illegalWed Sept 09 2020 - 19:48
Mali’s new military junta given week to find civilian presidentRegional bloc of 15 countries also calls for elections to be held within 12 monthsTue Sept 08 2020 - 19:15
Call for ‘free and fair’ elections in Tanzania as campaigning continuesTen countries including Ireland call for fairness amid concerns about authoritarianismThu Sept 03 2020 - 19:47
Hotel Rwanda hero ‘kidnapped’ in Dubai, says familyPaul Rusesabagina, who helped save 1,200 people during genocide, charged with terrorismTue Sept 01 2020 - 18:07
Europe doesn’t care about black lives, activists say, as hundreds abandoned at seaUnited Nations agencies call for a safe port to be granted to rescue shipsMon Aug 31 2020 - 18:43
Museveni deploys day of prayer in fight against coronavirusUganda’s president harnesses faith of predominantly Christian country as cases riseSun Aug 30 2020 - 15:50
Search for Africa’s 44,000 ‘disappeared’ complicated by pandemicRed Cross warns that once-common strategies to reunite families no longer possibleWed Aug 26 2020 - 18:20
Seven men and boys reportedly killed by Angolan forces implementing Covid rulesAmnesty says there are criminal investigations into the deaths, and those responsible must be brought to justiceTue Aug 25 2020 - 00:01
UN urges African countries to reopen schools as ‘safe haven’Children at risk of violence, sexual abuse and poor nutrition without return to educationFri Aug 21 2020 - 19:42
Why are we forcing refugees to risk their lives crossing Channel?Hope-fuelled treks from horror to reach UK show how security blocks off optionsFri Aug 21 2020 - 01:44
‘They will not open the airports’: Covid-19’s heavy toll on Ugandan tourismLack of foreign visitors has facilitated increase in poaching and loss of revenueThu Aug 20 2020 - 19:00
US sanctions Ugandan judges over international adoption scamTwo judges and a lawyer accused of helping trick parents into giving away their childrenTue Aug 18 2020 - 19:40
Hundreds of children returned to Libya from Mediterranean in 2020Dire condition of Libyan migrant detention centres condemned by human rights groupsFri Aug 14 2020 - 17:45
Namibia rejects €10m from Germany as apology for genocideOfficials from both sides have participated in eight rounds of talks on this issue since 2015Wed Aug 12 2020 - 18:20
Kenya begins corruption investigation into profiting off Covid-19Anti-corruption campaigners in Africa say tenders given out in crisis have less oversightFri Aug 07 2020 - 18:31
Sudanese refugees protest in Niger desert campEU spending hundreds of millions in countries such as Niger to stop flow of migrantsThu Aug 06 2020 - 19:20
Coronavirus: Africa to hit a million cases amid testing concernsIn some countries experts are worried that big outbreaks may be ongoing but unreportedWed Aug 05 2020 - 19:24
Maternity death rates rise as Africa struggles with Covid-19Scarce resources, anaesthetic costs and poor infrastructure hit pregnant women badlySun Aug 02 2020 - 14:50
Calls for inquiry after migrants captured by Libyan coast guard shot deadEU, which has spent close to €100m on coast guard, says use of violence ‘unacceptable’Wed Jul 29 2020 - 20:29
Lockdown effort to curb drinking in Uganda has mixed resultsShuttered bars serve alcohol despite Museveni curfew and ban on ‘merry-making’Tue Jul 28 2020 - 17:08
Africa’s early actions helping it cope with coronavirusThe continent’s history of dealing with outbreaks prepared it for Covid-19Tue Jul 28 2020 - 06:01
Ugandan president will ‘crush’ protesters ahead of electionMuseveni to keep borders shut as Covid-19 curfew and a food shortage hit people hardThu Jul 23 2020 - 16:38
Body floating for weeks in Mediterranean highlights ongoing drownings‘The last bit of dignity that the EU had left has drowned with these people’Sat Jul 18 2020 - 03:00
Coronavirus sparks fears of malaria death spike in AfricaMalaria fatalities may double due to Covid-19 causing drug shortage and patient warinessThu Jul 16 2020 - 16:04
Internet provides vital connection for Africa’s LGBT communitiesWith many facing persecution and imprisonment, online Pride events are a safe havenWed Jul 15 2020 - 19:55
Sudan legalises alcohol for non-Muslims for first time in 40 yearsSovereign council introduces new laws allowing women to travel aloneMon Jul 13 2020 - 18:54
Child labour increasing in lockdown Uganda while schools are closedFears of exploitation of children in mining and prostitution amid Covid-19 economicsThu Jul 09 2020 - 16:46
Coronavirus in Africa: Authoritarianism on rise in crisis, say activistsAs continent’s cases exceed half million, opposition leaders decry ‘war on democracy’Wed Jul 08 2020 - 19:16
Ghana offering African Americans the chance to move to AfricaGhanaian politicians to renew their call-outs to people of African descent to ‘come home’Mon Jul 06 2020 - 18:48
There is nowhere I’d rather wait out coronavirus than UgandaUganda Letter: Charity messaging and news reports give false image of vibrant regionSun Jul 05 2020 - 19:00
Number of coronavirus cases in Africa passes 400,000There are concerns about capacities of health systems in many African countriesWed Jul 01 2020 - 18:31
Ebola outbreak declared over in DRC but questions of corruption remainAid response dogged by allegations of embezzlement, fraud and sexual exploitationFri Jun 26 2020 - 18:04
Black Lives Matter puts focus on skin bleaching in Africa and AsiaDespite numerous attempts to regulate skin-lightening products, demand persistsTue Jun 23 2020 - 18:08
Refugees living in limbo as pandemic halted resettlement effortsUNHCR report finds 79.5m people – or one in 97 – on planet have been forcibly displacedThu Jun 18 2020 - 18:59
Coronavirus: Uganda’s street children bear brunt of pandemicLockdowns reveal how world’s most vulnerable live – including millions of childrenWed Jun 17 2020 - 20:00
Sex workers’ prices plummet as coronavirus leaves them without protectionPandemic has increased sex workers’ risk of assault and HIV transmission, charities sayMon Jun 15 2020 - 20:00
Thousands seek to remove colonialists’ names from Uganda’s streetsPetition calls for use of domestic heroes in nomenclature rather than British overlordsThu Jun 11 2020 - 20:00
Africa’s coronavirus cases top 200,000South Africa is the most affected country, with more than 52,000 confirmed casesWed Jun 10 2020 - 17:18
Africans wrestle with implications of Black Lives Matter protestsDemonstrations across continent prompt renewed focus on police violence and colourismTue Jun 09 2020 - 20:00
Migrant workers in Lebanon being abandoned at embassy gatesSome domestic workers are left outside embassies without passport, belongings or payFri Jun 05 2020 - 17:37
