‘Active citizenship’ sounds like a great idea – but used against undocumented migrants it can encourage murder

Governments need to take urgent action on funding and protection for LBQ+ movements across the world, says NGO

A lawsuit alleges forced labour, human trafficking and union busting in Facebook’s content moderation hub in Nairobi

Sourour Abouda is the third person of North African descent to die in unexplained circumstances in Rue Royale.

Lots of African students are studying for PhDs in China – but why is it so hard to graduate?

Violent death comes to LGBTIQ Kenyans too often, too early and in too many ways: hate crimes, suicide and domestic abuse.

Ghana’s only openly trans musician Angel Maxine speaks out on the dangers of a proposed anti-LGBTIQ bill

Emboldened by the overturning of Roe v Wade, Western conservative movements are dialling up their Africa campaigns

President Kais Saied has made it harder for women to run for office, reversing a decade of gains from gender quotas

A new lawsuit claims the tech giant has failed to moderate harmful content that incites violence in Africa

The offence of being ‘rogue and vagabond’ saw people detained for how they looked. Now it’s gone, but there’s more to do

A Facebook group of men bonding over misogyny recently shocked the nation – but accountability is unlikely

Focus on elections, investment and climate change has ignored serious threats to vulnerable Congolese groups

African leaders say oil and gas projects will provide energy security and jobs. Their true effects are more sinister

Revealed: Records show the FCDO’s British International Investment fund has continued to back major polluters

Exclusive: Farmers suffering worst droughts in 40 years tell openDemocracy how their communities are being destroyed

Godfred Yeboah Dame criticised some clauses as unconstitutional, but backed the proposed law in principle

OPINION: Border policies and hellish journeys are meant to control African movement in space and time

Twitter’s disbanding of its Africa office and human rights team poses a threat to information across the continent

Men are weaponising online abuse and physical violence to keep women’s voices out of politics