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Joy Online
… On January 31, 1992, Human Rights Watch made publication on the Tribunal system and indicated that, “the Tribunals do not permit the consideration of what are described as legal technicalities.” Members were appointed by the PNDC secretariat with no specified rules to comply with …
Why Ghana needs Regional Tribunals and why history shouldn’t prevent their establishmentJoy Online
… Human Rights Watch (HRW) also criticised the government’s actions, saying the harassment of the Addis Standard reflects a broader effort to silence critical reporting. …
Ethiopia’s Addis Standard editor Yonas Kedir allegedly abducted as rights groups warn of media crackdownJoy Online
… But rights groups – including Reprieve, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International – have said that in these kinds of cases due process is rarely followed. …
Death row inmates desperate to escape execution in Saudi Arabia call the BBCJoy Online
… In 2022, Human Rights Watch reported that New Bell was housing 4,700 prisoners within its crumbling walls – four times its capacity. …
The notorious Cameroonian prison with its own record labelJoy Online
… It remains one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, according to Human Rights Watch. …
Ethiopian police arrest alleged leader of multi-million-dollar trafficking ringJoy Online
… A damning report from May 2024 by Human Rights Watch characterised the events in and around el-Geneina between April and November 2023 as an orchestrated campaign of ethnic cleansing against non-Arab communities, resulting in thousands of deaths and the displacement of hundreds o …
Sudanese court sentences paramilitary RSF chief, 15 others to death over war crimesThe Chronicle
… 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 aidAn opinion piece argues that Ghana should establish Regional Tribunals despite past military-era tribunals committing human rights violations, saying proper constitutional safeguards can prevent such abuses. The author contends that historical concerns, while understandable, should not prevent Ghana from using an institution recognised by the Constitution if adequately regulated.
21 August 2026 · Joy Online →
An opinion piece argues that Ghana should establish Regional Tribunals despite past military-era tribunals committing human rights violations, saying proper constitutional safeguards can prevent such abuses. The author contends that historical concerns, while understandable, should not prevent Ghana from using an institution recognised by the Constitution if adequately regulated.
21 August 2026 · Joy Online →
Yonas Kedir, editor-in-chief of The Addis Standard, was allegedly abducted and assaulted by security forces last Saturday and held for 24 hours, according to the news outlet's owner. Rights groups say the incident is part of a pattern of targeting independent media in Ethiopia.
7 August 2026 · Joy Online →
Death row inmates held in Saudi Arabian prisons, mostly Ethiopians facing execution for drug-smuggling, have contacted the BBC from their cells seeking assistance. In the first seven months of this year, 17 Ethiopians have been executed—the highest number among non-Saudis.
1 August 2026 · Joy Online →
New Bell, a notorious prison in Douala, Cameroon, hosts Jail Time Records, an on-site music studio and label founded by former inmate Steve Happi that has helped produce music videos and concerts featuring prisoners, with some gaining international audiences across South Africa, the US, and Argentina.
26 July 2026 · Joy Online →
Ethiopian police have arrested 17 suspects, including alleged ringleader Mohammed Tahir, in connection with a multi-million-dollar international human trafficking ring accused of transporting over 40,000 Ethiopians to Saudi Arabia and collecting more than 1 billion Ethiopian birr from victims through extortion, abuse, and torture in Yemen detention warehouses.
21 July 2026 · Joy Online →
A Sudanese court has issued death sentences against Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, head of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and fifteen other high-ranking commanders, finding them guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide related to the conflict in West Darfur. The proceedings, conducted in absentia, cited the June 2023 assassination of state governor Khamis Abbakar and deliberate attacks on civilian infrastructure including residential areas, schools, and houses of worship.
13 July 2026 · Joy Online →
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.
2 July 2026 · 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 →