Nigerian rights activists are praising a Lagos state report into protests last year against a controversial special police unit. Days of protests against the Special
The late F.W. de Klerk, South Africa’s final apartheid president, leaves a legacy as complicated as the nation he once led. Some South Africans say
The families of nine Somali workers shot dead while working on a bush clearance project funded by the United Nations are calling for a full
More than 200 people, most of them women, marched in the city center of Cameroon’s capital, Yaounde, on Tuesday against what they call growing intolerance
With the Earth becoming warmer and weather events more extreme, the African Union has set up a disaster operation center in Nairobi to help monitor
In an upper-class estate on the northern fringes of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, a black gate with iron bars leads into a cream-colored duplex that offers
The United Nations expressed alarm Tuesday at surging arrests in Ethiopia since the country introduced a state of emergency November 2. The U.N. human rights
