Zimbabwe: Govt Urged to Create Safe Spaces for Rights Defenders
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHCR) has appealed to government to ensure a safe and secure operating environment for human rights defenders as ...
Botswana: Mass Elephant Deaths Caused By Bacteria
Gaborone — Findings on the mortality of 330 elephants around Seronga area between April and July are linked to cyanobacteria, Department of Wildlife ...
East Africa: U.S. Volunteer, South Sudanese Refugee Find Love in a Pandemic
Uganda — When American Faith Blanchard moved to Uganda to do charity work, she wasn’t expecting to find love. But during her time ...
Zimbabwe: Ruling Party to Take Part in Govt Procurement Processes – Chinamasa
ZANU PF is finalising preparing a document that will, among other issues see the governing party's involvement in the lucrative government procurement business. ...
Rescuers rush to save hundreds of stranded pilot whales in Australia
Rescuers were trying to refloat hundreds of whales stranded on a sandbar off the remote west coast of the Australian island of Tasmania ...
Tanzania: The Lioness of Dar es Salaam
Barbara Gonzalez has no talent for bowing to the inevitable, neither does the word impossible exist in her vocabulary. At just 30, Gonzalez ...
Sierra Leone: ‘Missing’ President Bio Returns Home
Freetown — Sierra Leone's President Julius Maada Bio finally returned home on Saturday, three weeks after he left the country and eliciting talk ...
Somalia: As Govt Chooses Delegate Voting System, Outsider Sees His Chances Rise
For most of the Somalia presidential aspirants the Nation has interviewed so far, the aspect of replacing an incumbent who has 'failed' in ...
Ethiopia: UN Ready to Support Probe Into Haacaaluu Assassination, Violence
In her latest message on global human rights update Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said her office was ready to ...
South Africa: Groundbreaking Court Judgment On Mining and Community Rights
The Umgungundlovu community, located in Xolobeni in the Eastern Cape, has won an important case in the Gauteng High Court that enables communities ...