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Joy 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, othersAn 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 →