Dar es Salaam, November 4 – A terse late-evening directive from Tanzanian police headquarters sent panic and shockwave through the…
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Nairobi, October 10 – In Kinshasa, a courtroom fell silent last Tuesday as former Congolese president Joseph Kabila was sentenced…
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Kinshasa, October 7 – Joseph Kabila’s sentencing last Tuesday felt like a shock to many in East Africa and beyond,…
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The Hague, October 6 – After two decades of waiting, a long-delayed measure of justice has finally reached Darfur. The…
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Nairobi, October 1 – In a high-level online dialogue on Tuesday, a United Nations expert and frontline human rights defenders…
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Kigali, September 28 – Rwanda has entered uncharted territory after President Paul Kagame signed into law a measure lowering the…
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Nairobi, September 17 – In a major determination that clarifies the roles of Kenya’s media oversight bodies, the Media Complaints…
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Nairobi, June 12 – Police Constable James Mukhwana of Nairobi’s Central Police Station has been arrested in connection with the…
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Nairobi, June 12 – Albert Ojwang, a teacher and blogger, is the latest victim of extrajudicial killing in Kenya. He…
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Moshi, Tanzania, April 21 – Under the towering shadow of Africa’s highest peak, Mt. Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania’s drought-prone Mwanga District,…
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