A student in one of the videos showing police officers using brutal force at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) has been i...
Indonesia is set to pass a highly controversial new penal code that will criminalize consensual sex outside of marriage and effectively outlaw same-se...
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) said two alleged leaders of Central African Republic militias, one of them prominent in African ...
For many teens, the last year of high school is a time of excitement filled with studies, athletics and dances. But young Eritreans spend the year at ...
Tanzania's government on Monday charged investigative journalist Erick Kabendera with money laundering, tax evasion and assisting a criminal racket. ...
Human Rights Watch has accused Kenya's police force of carrying out the extrajudicial killings of around two dozen young men and boys in the low-incom...
A memorial service in honor of the late Ken Okoth will be held on Wednesday at the Starehe Boys Centre and School. A statement from the Old Starehi...
More than 12,000 children were killed and injured in armed conflicts last year - a record number - with Afghanistan, the Palestinians, Syria and Yemen...
“And even if we chose to let you live out the natural term of your life, still you would never escape from us. What happens to you here is forever. ...
Bahrain has executed two men convicted of terrorism offenses. The French news agency AFP reports that the two men were killed by firing squad Satur...
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines is considering cutting diplomatic ties with Iceland for leading a push to have the United Nations Human R...
"What are your sex and relationship goals for 2019?" That was the question put to women in a blog post published earlier this year in a country tha...
Police in Kenya have often been accused of using excessive and unlawful force while in the line of duty. A new report published on Wednesday by Hum...
The Furi Furi dance challenge, a popular style that hit the Kenyan music scene almost seven years ago, was one that Bob Collymore found to good to ign...
Three women have accused Gambia's ex-president, Yahya Jammeh, of carrying out a series of rapes and sexual assaults while in power, according to Huma...
A beauty pageant winner is accusing Gambia former dictator of raping her four years ago. The young woman is one of several now coming forward and a...
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has defended the continued detention of a blogger who has served jail time for allegedly insulting the P...
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other senior officials should be investigated over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi given credible ...
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Tuesday signaled the end of a controversial extradition bill that she promoted and then postponed after some of the mos...
Internet outages that prevented many Ethiopians from accessing online services have entered a seventh day, sparking anger and frustration among citize...