At a European Parliament subcommittee meeting on human rights and development, Human Rights Watch called on the European Union and international community to take strong...
In Somaliland, political and corporate influences play a key role in evading public scrutiny by Judy Maina, judy.maina@alleastafrica.com NAIROBI– The finance minister of the breakaway...
Burundi suspended cooperation with the UN’s human rights arm on Tuesday, accusing it of creating “false controversy” with claims of violence against political dissidents. The...
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir is alive and healthy, his spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny said, dispelling rumors that the former was “dead”. “We would like...
Kampala — As Uganda approaches the oil production phase, the government has issued standards that sector players will be required to adhere to. Uganda, which...
All mobile internet services have been shut down in Ethiopia for the last seven days, amid increasingly violent protest scenes and a recently declared “state...
Aconfidential letter from the U.N. secretary-general says South Sudan’s government is undermining a U.N. Security Council decision to deploy an additional 4,000 peacekeepers, risking an...
ETHIOPIA’S RULERS have redoubled a repressive policy that is failing. Instead of looking for ways to alleviate the pent-up frustrations of the ethnic Oromo and...
For years, Ethiopia’s government has repressed dissent, jailed opposition leaders and at times shut down social media, producing the kind of political stability that has...