Civil Society

Some 300 days after popular Pidgin journalist Samuel Wazizi was arrested and held incommunicado by police in the south-western city of Buea, his alleged torture and death were announced in the Cameroonian media on Wednesday. Wazizi’s death was announced on Equinoxe television in the economic capital Douala, after reporting that …

Nairobi — As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the country with devastating economic results, Sr. Winnie Mutuku has managed to sustain a feeding program for street children and families in Kitale, a town in western Kenya about 280 miles from the capital, Nairobi. The East African nation has no …

South Africans, who have trust in President Cyril Ramaphosa, are more likely to sacrifice their human rights in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus in the country. This according to a survey by the University of Johannesburg’s (UJ) Centre for Social Change and Human Sciences Research Council’s (HSRC) …

Kenya’s Independent Policing Oversight Authority (or IPOA) on Thursday announced a police officer was being charged with murder in the shooting death of Yassin Hussein Moyo. The thirteen-year-old boy was standing on the balcony of his parent’s home in Nairobi on March 30 when he was hit by a bullet …

Journalists in Cameroon have marched to government offices to demand an account of their missing colleague, Samuel Wazizi, after local media this week reported he was died in military custody. Isidore Abah of the Cameroon Association of English-Speaking Journalists’ (CAMASEJ) says he led scores of reporters Thursday in a march …

Just as it was an enabler of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonialism, tribalism has also manifested in post-colonial Africa in the form of divisive, exclusionist, conflicting and destabilising politics of ethno-geographic identity, which has proven to be an anathema to the collective development of black African states in the …

Adeola Adewunmi and Olutunbosun Osifowora, leaders of a civic group known as New Nigeria Collective carry out an unsparing evaluation of the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, with necessary and commensurate praise and blame The leadership of the New Nigeria Collective (NNC), a non-government has given a critical assessment of …

[HRW] Adopt and Enforce Laws on Violence Against WomenRead More

[Wellbeing Foundation] Lagos -This year marked the start of the United Nations’ Decade of Delivery, where we were promised that things would change for the empowerment of women and girls. Armed with research to prove how much better off our world would be with the rights of women and girls …

[Namibian] THE National Disability Council of Namibia says they are faced with inadequate funding and skilled manpower to fully carry out their mandate.Read More