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… President Cyril Ramaphosa has publicly rejected the protest groups’ threats and warned against vigilantism, though critics — including Human Rights Watch — have said the police response to earlier attacks this year was inadequate. …
Ghana confirms first citizen killed in South Africa’s xenophobic violence, demands justiceJoy Online
… In January, Human Rights Watch said the 2022 trial had ignored video evidence showing government agents helping to direct the experts toward the ambush site. …
Congo colonel sentenced to death over murder of UN expertsBusiness & Financial Times
… Human Rights Watch has warned that the legislation could expose not only LGBTQ people but also advocates, parents, teachers, journalists, doctors, donors, and human rights defenders to prosecution. …
Re-imagine Ghana with Dr Hene Aku Kwapong: We must not become a Republic of Suspicion: A case for moderation in the LGBTQ debateJoy Online
… The ban has been sharply criticised by international organisations, including Human Rights Watch, which said it placed LGBTQ+ people’s lives at risk while also “encouraging citizens to surveil and denounce one another”. …
Ghana’s anti-LGBTQ+ bill forces high-stakes reckoning over national sovereignty and foreign aidJoy Online
… In its September 2025 publication, Human Rights Watch condemned Ethiopia’s government for arbitrarily arresting journalists and media professionals and called for an end to the harassment of independent journalists. …
Ethiopia is heading to the polls, but not everyone can voteJoy Online
… Human Rights Watch also cited the case in this year’s report on Tanzania, pointing to a broader crackdown on opposition figures, activists, and free expression. …
US sanctions Tanzanian police official over alleged torture of human rights activistsJoy Online
… According to international human rights organisations including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, Africa continues to record increasing cases of abuses linked to armed conflicts, restrictions on free expression, violence against women and vulnerable groups, poor healt …
Africa must intensify human rights education to curb violations — Dr Kingsley AgyemangJoy Online
… Human Rights Watch confirmed the severity of this shift in an April report, stating that under Traoré, the junta has carried out a broad crackdown that has fostered “an atmosphere of terror and severely restricted the flow of information.” The government has historically ignored …
Burkina Faso junta accused of secretly detaining journalist and dozens of others, RSF report findsJoy Online
… In 2021 – following the arrest of Karasira and others like him – Human Rights Watch called on Rwandan authorities to investigate the “suspicious deaths and disappearances of critics, opposition members, civil society actors, and journalists, and prosecute those responsible”.
Rwandan singer dies as he was being released from prisonThe Ghanaian Times
… Human Rights Watch said in an April report that under Traoré, the junta has carried out a broad crackdown, fostering “an atmosphere of terror and severely restricting the flow of information.”-AP Follow our WhatsApp Channel now! …
Burkina Faso junta detains journalist, othersA 40-year-old Ghanaian national was shot dead in Cape Town on Monday amid South Africa's escalating xenophobic demonstrations, prompting Ghana's Foreign Affairs Ministry to lodge a formal diplomatic protest and demand investigation and prosecution.
22 hours ago · The Chronicle →
A 40-year-old Ghanaian national was shot dead in Cape Town on Monday amid South Africa's escalating xenophobic demonstrations, prompting Ghana's Foreign Affairs Ministry to lodge a formal diplomatic protest and demand investigation and prosecution.
22 hours ago · The Chronicle →
A Congolese High Military Court sentenced Colonel Jean de Dieu Mambweni to death for orchestrating the 2017 killings of two UN experts investigating mass deaths in the Kasai region. The sentence will effectively become life imprisonment, as Congo has not carried out executions since 2003.
10 June 2026 · Joy Online →
An opinion piece argues that Ghana's LGBTQ debate reflects deeper shifts in society, and warns that the real danger is not moral disagreement but the normalization of suspicion—citizens surveilling one another and the state treating difference as a threat.
8 June 2026 · Business & Financial Times →
Ghana's Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill criminalises homosexuality and LGBTQ+ advocacy, with penalties of up to three years' imprisonment for identifying as LGBTQ+ and up to ten years for promoting LGBTQ+ activities. The legislation also requires citizens to report suspected violations to police and forces a reckoning over the nation's democratic identity, fiscal stability, and international partnerships.
1 June 2026 · Joy Online →
Ethiopia's general election takes place on Monday as conflict prevents many people from voting, with the entire northern Tigray region excluded from the poll due to its recovery from a civil war that ended in 2022. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party is expected to win, with the winning party needing at least 274 of 547 parliamentary seats to form the next government.
31 May 2026 · Joy Online →
The United States has imposed sanctions on Tanzanian senior assistant commissioner of police Faustine Jackson Mafwele over his alleged involvement in torture and sexual assault of East African rights activists, including the detention and abuse of Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi and Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire in May last year.
22 May 2026 · Joy Online →
Vice-Chairman of Parliament's Human Rights Committee Dr. Kingsley Agyemang has called on African countries to strengthen human rights education to reduce violations across the continent. He argued that human rights education should encompass not only political freedoms but also access to healthcare, safe infrastructure, and basic living conditions.
14 May 2026 · Joy Online →
Reporters Without Borders reports that Burkina Faso's military junta uses forced military conscription as a cover for secretly detaining and abusing dissidents, including investigative journalist Atiana Serge Oulon, who was seized from his home in June 2024 and whose location remains unknown to his family.
8 May 2026 · Joy Online →
Rwandan singer Aimable Karasira died at Nyarugenge Hospital as he was being released from prison in Kigali; the Rwanda Correctional Service attributed his death to an overdose of prescription medication, though government critics have questioned the circumstances and called for an independent investigation.
7 May 2026 · Joy Online →
Reporters Without Borders said Burkina Faso's military junta secretly held and abused investigative journalist Atiana Serge Oulon and up to 40 others in a makeshift detention facility in Ouagadougou, contradicting the government's claim that Oulon was conscripted into military service. The advocacy group said detainees reported abuse including sleeping on bare floors and being beaten by guards.
7 May 2026 · The Ghanaian Times →