Extractivism all-over the African continent is still appropriating and exploiting natural resources and destroying the environment and the livelihood of local communities.
It may become harder for church and state to deny that trans Nigerians exist, thanks to activists like Miss saHHara.
Four black women from all walks of life speak up about their experiences. They can no longer be silenced.
Six million Congolese have died from conflict-related causes over the past two decades – making the conflict in Congo the world’s deadliest since World War II.
عمر العبيدي ضحية اخرى من ضحايا القمع البوليسي الذي يتواصل بعد الثورة و الذي ذهب ضحيته الكثيرون.
Ultimately, the only route to its successful end is regulation through institutional mechanisms, which means elections, whether early or within the normal electoral cycle.
Egypt will at some point explode in everyone's faces. The question is when, how and most of all, at what cost. How much more blood will flow?
Whatever the Public Order Act’s role in maintaining the rule of law, it has also served as a tool to undermine the human rights that are essential to a democracy.
Pregnant teenagers face expulsion from school, arrests, even death. The backlash against sex education in Africa is punishing our girls, and must end now.
To avoid another “World War” in Africa, the international community must negotiate with Kabila his own peaceful resignation – before he goes beyond the point of no return.
By the very nature of their positions, authoritarian leaders project extreme insecurity, as their legitimacy is not reaped from popular representation and democratic accountability.
