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Climate activists today added a dramatic twist to the COP29 summit with a live game show called Make Polluters Pay. As the United Nations climate finance negotiations entered their final [...]

Byline: Daniel Steyn National Treasury has proposed tax increases to reduce harmful drinking The National Treasury has propose raising excise taxes and introducing minimum unit pricing for alcohol to help [...]

Byline: Joseph Diing Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the (https://www.zedbooks.net/shop/series/african-arguments) African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the [...]

Byline: Ise-Oluwa Ige In this report, Vanguard Law & Human Rights captures the perspectives of senior lawyers, academics, and rights activists on the decision by President Bola Tinubu's government not [...]

Byline: Paula Cristina Roque Another stolen election has sent the people into the streets. The people await Venancio Mondlane, the leader of the protest movement. The old elite await a [...]

Byline: RFI Mozambican police fired tear gas at hundreds of opposition supporters on Thursday in the capital, Maputo, marking the largest protest yet against last month's disputed election results. Protesters [...]

Byline: Sola Ogundipe, Adesina Wahab, Kingsley Omonobi, Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Ikechukwu Nnochiri & Bashir Bello Abuja -- The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday struck out two separate treason charges [...]

Byline: Johnbosco Agbakwuru, Ndahi Marama & Luminous Jannamike Abuja -- President Bola Tinubu yesterday directed the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, to facilitate the immediate release [...]

Byline: Sandiso Phaliso While most residents agree they desperately need a new hospital, some don't want to lose a popular sports field Gugulethu residents took to the streets last week [...]

Byline: Tunde Oso A popular activist and social crusader in the Niger Delta region, Oghenekaro Edor has condemned campaign of calumny against the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, [...]

*AGF mulls withdrawing charges against minors *Gov Yusuf vows to get suspects back to Kano, Kwankwaso condemns stringent bail conditions Chuks Okocha, Linus Aleke in Abuja and Ahmad Sorondinki in [...]

Byline: Amgad Abdelgadir London -- Chants of 'Hamdok to the ICC' rang out from a throng of hundreds of protesters, who gathered outside (https://www.chathamhouse.org/) Chatham House policy institute in central [...]

On 14 October, the Bamako Court of Appeal ordered Étienne Sissoko's provisional release pending his appeal trial on 11 November, but the decision was suspended later the same day, following [...]

Activist Bonface Mwangi has been freed after spending a night in jail with no charges preferred against him. This follows his arrest on Sunday after he threatened to hijack the [...]

Byline: Irene Mwangi Nairobi -- Activist Boniface Mwangi is missing after being reportedly picked up by unknown people Sunday from his Machakos home. On her X account, his wife Njeri [...]

Nairobi -- Activist Boniface Mwangi has been traced to the Kamukunji police station hours after he was picked up by police from his Machakos home. This is after his family [...]

El Butana -- The Advocacy Group for Peace in Sudan (AGPS) issued a call for immediate global action to address a surge in tribal mobilisation across Sudan. In an urgent [...]

At least three Somali migrants tragically lost their lives in September and October while being held in warehouses and homes operated by human traffickers in Libya, according to human rights [...]

Luanda -- The Attorney General of the Republic, Hélder Pitta Gróz, defended, Monday, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the alignment of Angola with the international criminal policy to combat transnational [...]

Byline: Remi Adebayo A member of the Lagos State organising committee of the #EndBadGovernance Movement, Comrade Hassan Taiwo Soweto has accused the operatives of the state Police Command of brutality [...]

Khartoum -- The Khartoum Resistance Committees have appealed to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 'to intervene immediately' and monitor the evacuation of the people living in Tuti [...]

Byline: Paidashe Mandivengerei THE new US Ambassador to Zimbabwe Pamela Tremont is unfazed by anti-sanctions protestors who have been camped at the embassy in Harare for over five years now, [...]

Beninese activist Kemi Seba - known for his anti-Western stance and ties to Russia - was reportedly arrested in Paris this week, although the exact reason has not been made [...]

Byline: Gina Romero Bogota, Colombia -- Information manipulation and misinformation are not new phenomena, but they have taken on exaggerated importance, especially with the massive use of social media. Hostile [...]

In the leadup to next month's COP29 climate summit in Baku, states must exert pressure on the Azerbaijani authorities to reverse their clampdown on civil society, release those detained solely [...]

Byline: Irene Mwangi Nairobi -- Activist Morara Kebaso was Friday ejected from the Bomas of Kenya amid chaos as he arrived to present views on Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua's impeachment. [...]

A total 32 protesters from the Democracy Hub have filed a lawsuit against the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Attorney General and Minister for Justice, alleging violations of [...]

Byline: Bassam Khawaja Abdel Fattah Remains Imprisoned Beyond His Five-Year Sentence Alaa Abdel Fattah, the British-Egyptian writer and activist, should have been released on September 29 after serving an unjust [...]

Byline: Matthew Hirsch For years Reclaim the City and Ndifuna Ukwazi have been calling for leased golf courses to rather be used for social housing Housing activists have cautiously welcomed [...]

Byline: Mohammed Taoheed The police in Kano State summoned on Monday the five activities for questioning in connection with Tuesday's National Day of Survival protest. (https://www.amnesty.org/en/) Amnesty International has called [...]

Byline: Silver Sibiya Residents of Fleurhof housing development say they are being ignored Hundreds of protesters from Fleurhof, west of Johannesburg, took to the streets early on Tuesday morning, demanding [...]

Byline: Henry Ojelu, Olasunkami Akoni, Joseph Erunke, Emmanuel Elebeke, Gabriel Ewepu, Boluwaji Obahopo, Ogalah Ibrahim & Mohammed Abubakar Lagos -- Despite appeals by some stakeholders and the Federal Government calling [...]

Byline: Bruhan Makong Nairobi -- Two brothers and an activist reportedly abducted in Kajiado last month have been found in Kiambu, the police service has confirmed. The trio that has [...]

Byline: Alois Vinga THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) conferred medals of honour to victims who suffered the wrath of police brutality during a worker's demonstration 18 years ago. [...]

Byline: Herald Reporters The prolonged incarceration of a Form Four pupil, Nicola Chabata, was largely because her lawyers never brought up the fact that she was a schoolgirl . She [...]

Byline: Ahmada Yahaya AS Tanzania prepares for the upcoming local government elections on November 27, activists and stakeholders are calling for more civic education, particularly targeting marginalised groups such as [...]

An Ordinary Level student, Nicole Chabata who is among the 65 Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) activists arrested in June this year on allegations of unlawful gathering has been granted [...]

In a now familiar scenario, the Nigerian government has arraigned about 10 persons arrested in connection with the #EndbadGovernance protests that hit major cities in August and charged them with [...]

Johannesburg -- Police Commit Widespread Harassment, Assaults, Arbitrary Detention (https://www.hrw.org/africa/mozambique) Mozambican police have committed widespread abuses against journalists and civil society activists that could seriously impair their work ahead of [...]

Byline: Abiodun Sanusi The defence lawyers had argued that the proof of evidence submitted by the prosecution did not support the allegations of treason levelled against the 10 defendants arrested [...]

Byline: Tapiwa Svondo The Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) has called for the immediate release of Nicole Chabata, a young female student who was arrested at CCC interim leader Jameson [...]

Byline: Adesina Wahab The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has decried the comment by a rights activist, Deji Adeyanju, claiming that the body, NANS, is dead. The group, in [...]

Byline: Mary Taruvinga Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim leader and former senator Jameson Timba and 65 other party activists will remain in jail after Magistrate Collet Ncube ruled that [...]

Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim leader Jameson Timba and 77 party activists arrested on June 16 have been acquitted of disorderly conduct. The group was arrested on allegations [...]

Byline: Abiodun Sanusi The 10 #EndBadGovernance protesters denied the six charges stemming from their alleged roles during the anti-government demonstrations held between 1 and 10 August. The Federal High Court [...]

Amnesty International Nigeria, has condemned the mass trial of #EndBadGovernance protesters. The trial will begin in Abuja, Kano and Kaduna today. Recall that a good number of protesters were arrested […]

The mass trial of #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protesters is scheduled to commence today, September 2, 2024 in Abuja, Kano, Kaduna and Borno courts. According Sahara Reporters was quoted as saying that those […]

Activists and lawyers to the #EndBadGovernance protesters have asked a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, to vacate the ex-parte order it made restricting the #Endbadgovernance and hunger […]