Kenyan protesters torched a police station in Kisii, in south-west Kenya, to protest the Sunday killing of a man for selling allegedly fake hand sanitizers.
The man was...
African countries are now dealing with a growing number of Diaspora dual citizens and what it means for elections.
Earlier this year, Jawar Mohammed, the prominent...
The legendary Nelson Mandela.
Liverpool charitable organization Mandela8 is marking Mandela Day this year by encouraging the public to take part in a whole week of...
Jihadist warfare in West Africa, unleashed after Libya's takeover, continued in a Thursday attack in Mali.
Seven government soldiers were killed in an ambush in central...
Committee To Protect Journalists are questioning the closure of two television stations by Somaliland authorities.
Authorities in Somaliland should immediately withdraw...
Musician Haacaalu Hundeessa was murdered Monday in alleged assasination.
At least 50 people were killed in Ethiopia's Oromia region in protests following the fatal...
Patrice Lumumba. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
Patrice Lumumba wrote the following letter to his wife Pauline before the U.S., U.K., and Belgium --through Mobuttu-- delivered him to the puppet...
Did Nigerian legislator Frank Ugboma (above) sanction assault on Nigerian journalist Ike-Jacobs Nwosu?
Nigerian authorities should investigate the attack on journalist Ike-...
Sgt. Cornelius Fredrick Adjetey, Private Odartey Lamptey and Corporal Attipoe were murdered in 1948 while peacefully marching in Ghana.
After a long period of a quiet...
Dr. Stella Nyanzi, an academic don and a human rights activist
Like sex, campaigns are interactional. Just like sex, campaigns are two-dimensional. Candidates have social-political...
Sobukwe. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
[From The Archives]
The late Robert Sobukwe President of the Pan Africanist Congress doesn't get the credit he deserves for his role and the PAC's...
The United Nations Human Rights Council has taken an important step to investigate abuses by all sides in Libya — including human trafficking — by establishing a fact-finding body....
Thousands of female African health workers are battling COVID-19 in their communities.
Armed with a face mask, notebook and pen, Everlyne Akinyi Omondi sets out each...
Bobi Wine and Dr. Kizza Besigye. Photo elgonreport.com via Facebook.
The United States and the United Kingdom, both major donors to Gen. Yoweri Museveni's regime in Uganda have stated that...
I think you have "Filtered HTML" turned on here. If you switch to "Full HTML," it will probably...
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