The judges of the Constitutional Council, Mozambique's highest body in matters of electoral law, claim that they have been receiving death threats through messages "sent to their phones or posted on ...

The international NGO, Human Rights Watch (HRW), claims that the Mozambican security forces killed at least 10 children and injured dozens more during mass demonstrations called by the presidential ...

"As a representative of the world coming to join you today and being welcomed by you today, I feel ashamed that we have not been able to protect you, and I feel ashamed of my fellow men for what they ...

Responding to the Ivorian authorities' decision to suspend eviction operations in the Autonomous District of Abidjan, Samira Daoud, Amnesty International's Regional Director for West and Central ...

As 12 gorgeous finalists compete for the coveted title of Miss World Zimbabwe, beauty, brains, and benevolence will come together in a breathtaking display of grace and camaraderie.

Analysis - The United States army has completed its withdrawal from Niger after 11 years of military cooperation with the west African country.

Authorities across 19 African countries have arrested 1,006 suspects and dismantled 134,089 malicious infrastructures and networks thanks to a joint operation by INTERPOL and AFRIPOL against ...

As the world faces escalating challenges, from climate change to biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, there is now a rapidly expanding understanding that these crises are deeply interconnected ...

Hundreds of people, including women's rights activists, Nigerian lawmakers, and other participants, chanted as they walked from the National Assembly through the streets of Abuja on Monday.

Ahead of World AIDS Day on 1 December, a new report by the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) highlights the critical role of human rights in ending the AIDS pandemic as a public health threat by ...

Six southern African countries have voiced disappointment with new efforts by the British Labour Party government to introduce a bill that seeks to ban the importation of wildlife trophies from Africa ...

A report by the international NGO Equality Now says the definition of rape in 25 African countries has allowed many perpetrators to go unpunished. Such narrow definitions, it says, often allow charges ...