Ugandan election: Museveni wins sixth term as opposition leader put under ‘house arrest’Police and special forces outside home of Bobi Wine, who claims vote was riggedSun Jan 17 2021 - 19:36
Ugandans choose between pop singer and longtime leader in tense electionUganda's incumbent president, 76-year-old Museveni, has been in power since 1986Thu Jan 14 2021 - 19:39
Uganda blocks internet access ahead of landmark electionPolls open on Thursday as pop star Bobi Wine takes on longstanding president MuseveniWed Jan 13 2021 - 20:25
Coronavirus used as political tool in Uganda as healthcare needs neglectedAs election looms, lack of funding from government at heart of state’s inability to tackle Covid-19Tue Jan 12 2021 - 19:00
Rival accuses Uganda’s president of crimes against humanityMusician Bobi Wine says Yoweri Museveni has committed more crimes than Joseph KonyFri Jan 08 2021 - 18:43
Libya: coronavirus has deadly impact on life-saving evacuationsPandemic has reduced international attention paid to humanitarian crisisFri Jan 01 2021 - 15:20
‘We’re very proud’: Locals in Ugandan slum rally round their ‘ghetto president’Supporters of pop star and presidential candidate Bobi Wine wary of upcoming votesWed Dec 30 2020 - 01:00
Uganda mired in violence against opposition supporters ahead of electionRepression on the rise as opposition presidential candidate aims to ‘remove dictator’Tue Dec 29 2020 - 16:21
Ethiopian war criminals expected to leave Italian embassy after 29 yearsTwo officials have sentences commuted, ending what may be world’s longest diplomatic asylum sagaTue Dec 29 2020 - 01:00
Aid workers fear South Sudan already experiencing famineReview finds 24,000 people are at a ‘catastrophic’ level of food insecuritySun Dec 20 2020 - 19:20
Migrants face torture at Saudi facility, says HRW reportDetainees said to be beaten with rods, which allegedly led to three deaths between October and NovemberTue Dec 15 2020 - 19:59
Hundreds of boys missing after attack on school in northern NigeriaIncident echoes previous kidnapping in April 2014 when 276 schoolgirls were abductedMon Dec 14 2020 - 18:37
UN says Central African Republic is most vulnerable country during pandemicSome 2.3m people likely to need food aid due to inflation, disruption to local production and Covid making imports difficultSun Dec 13 2020 - 16:46
Ghanaians go to polls in presidential, parliamentary electionsCountry on west African coast widely perceived as one of continent’s most democraticMon Dec 07 2020 - 18:22
Kony’s children: The former child soldiers of UgandaDominic Ongwen faces a war-crimes verdict in January. For some Ugandans his story isn’t simpleSat Nov 28 2020 - 06:00
Ethiopians suffer after tensions spill into warfareCountry in crisis over government refusal to sanction regional electionTue Nov 24 2020 - 20:00
Thousands of Ethiopian pilgrims flocking to religious sitesRural monasteries and churches have become accessible again following months under a state of emergency due to coronavirusSun Nov 22 2020 - 16:42
UN peacekeepers withdraw from South Sudan civilian protection sitesSites sheltered hundreds of thousands who fled brutal violence during country’s warThu Oct 29 2020 - 01:00
Tanzania goes to the polls amid reports of police violence and repressionStrongman leader John Magufuli looks likely to be elected president for a second termTue Oct 27 2020 - 18:00
Nigeria accused of turning protest against police violence into ‘shooting spree’Call for army to withdraw from streets of Lagos and prosecution of officersWed Oct 21 2020 - 19:09
Sudan to be removed from US terror blacklist after paying $335mTrump welcomes ‘justice’ for victims of 1998 terrorist attacks on embassies by al-QaedaTue Oct 20 2020 - 17:11
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
