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On Wednesday, 15 April 2026 Burkina Faso’s ministry of territorial administration and mobility announced the dissolution of 118 NGOs and associations and banned their activities.

Burkina Faso is right to regulate NGOs

The West does not have a moral claim over African security. African states retain the right to choose partners according to their own historical interests. A multipolar world…

On land and sea: On Christmas Day, US President Donald Trump, in coordination with the Nigerian government, ordered Tomahawk missile strikes
from a US warship in the Gulf of Guinea against what he termed “ISIS Terrorist Scum” in Islamic State-Sahel camps in Nigeria’s northwestern state of
Sokoto.

The white man’s burden trumps Nigeria

US President Donald Trump has made good on his threat to take military action against Nigeria to save Christians from a “genocide”

Emre Çınar. Photo: Supplied

Fears grow over disappearance of Turkish lawyer in Mozambique

Emre Çınar has lived in Maputo since 2017 after fleeing Türkiye following the government’s crackdown on alleged critics

Graffiti for the freedom of Marwan Barghouti, a jailed political activist from Fatah. (Flickr)

Why Marwan Barghouti’s name matters

Hamas’s demand for Barghouti’s release reflects his symbolic and political weight

Protesters waving Palestinian flags and posters opposite the Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre on Tuesday to mark International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide. Photo: Matthew Hirsch

Protesters demand that Cape Town holocaust centre recognise genocide in Gaza

The vigil also marked the International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide

Mosotho Moepya, chairperson of IEC South Africa. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

South Africa’s future depends on electoral integrity

The next election will be for the survival and credibility of the country’s democracy

Israeli attacks continue in Gaza. Photo: Ahmed Zaqout/Anadolu/Getty Images

Israeli propaganda yet again poses as fact

Israel is using water as a weapon of war in Gaza

Apple, Dell and Nvidia have supply chains in China and rely on components manufactured.

Pegasus spyware: The dark side of global surveillance

The shadowy, unregulated spyware industry is enabling authoritarian regimes around the world and is a threat to civil liberties

Smoke rises as clashes in Khartoum between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces reached boiling point in 2023.(Photo by Mahmoud Hjaj/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

‘Rebels’ should give up hope of ruling Sudan, says RSF adviser

US peace talks to end the 16-month war in the country have yielded no concrete results

NAIROBI, KENYA – AUGUST 8: Police detain demonstrators during the protest against the government’s tax regulation in Nairobi, Kenya on August 8, 2024. (Photo by Gerald Anderson/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Kenya government’s digital tyranny is working – for now

With remarkable creativity, Kenyans used technology to organise nationwide protests. The state’s digital response has been equally remarkable, but for all the wrong reasons

Fleeing for their lives: Tayyib Mahmoud and his family from Al Fashir in Darfur in 2021 going on a bus that will take them to safety in Egypt.

Sudan civil war fuels sexual violence and humanitarian crisis

Both sides are accused of war crimes, and millions of people have been displaced and face famine in 14 areas of civil war in the country

Surveillance technology is increasingly being used to monitor civilians.

SA, International Law and stopping the coming tragedy

We cannot be like the West and turn our back on the Palestinian people and the question of their freedom

In defiance of a judgment by the African court on human and peoples’ rights,capital punishment remains — even if death sentences are never executed

The death penalty must be abolished

As we observe the World Day Against the Death Penalty, we must hold onto the glimmer of hope that Zimbabwean authorities will do away with capital punishment

The Red Sea and the Suez Canal serve as the fastest maritime route between Asia and Europe. Photo: Dawson/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Rights groups urge Tanzania to free critics of UAE port deal

The deal paves the way for a logistics company controlled by Dubai to manage all the ports in Tanzania

DHAKAR, SENEGAL – JUNE 02: Sonkoâs supporters gather to protest after Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko jailed for 2 years for âcorrupting youthâ in Dhakar, Senegal on June 02, 2023. At least nine people were killed in clashes, and public and private properties were vandalized in Senegal following the sentencing of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko to two years in prison for “corrupting the youth,” the country’s interior minister said on Friday. (Photo by Annika Hammerschlag/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Senegal’s democracy hangs in the balance

The West African country is at a critical juncture, where the aspirations of its people are being trampled upon

Amnesty International – Programme Director, Campaigns and Education

The Programme Director will implement Amnesty’s strategic vision for human rights action

“Didn’t the world support the boycott of apartheid South Africa?” (Photo by Jonathan C. Katzenellenbogen/Getty Images)

SA sport faces tough questions after Israel rugby debacle

Sport can be a powerful force for good but in the wrong hands it can also be used help normalise hatred

An Ethiopian man whose father was murdered during the country’s war has joined a lawsuit against Meta that is seeking $1.6 billion from Facebook’s parent company for allegedly fanning hate speech in Africa. (Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Activists file case against Meta over Tigray hate posts

A Tigrayan father and academic had been targeted by racist messages on Facebook and was murdered in November 2021. Petition says the social media giant had failed to remove the…

Empty graves after exhumation of bodies in the mass grave created during the Russian’s occupation in Izyum, Kharkiv region, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)

Human rights dealt a blow by 2022

New and ongoing conflicts and rise of authoritarianism undermine vision for universal human rights

The murder of Fikile Ntshangase in KwaZulu-Natal was not an isolated incident. Around the globe, from Nigeria to Brazil, environmental activists are similarly being silenced, and it is our duty to continue this struggle. (Oupa Nkosi)

Two years later and still no justice for murdered activist

No one has been arrested for the murder of fierce opponent of coal mining operation in KwaZulu-Natal Fikile Ntshangase