A government ban on the media in South Sudan is making it difficult to verify reports about the trial of opposition leader Riek Machar, and in the resulting information...
Can you hide from state surveillance? What happens when state surveillance is used on a nation’s citizens to restrict their freedom? Kenya had nationwide protests...
Protests erupted across major cities and towns in Tanzania after the 29 October 2025 elections. These protests were unprecedented in their scale, nationwide reach, and...
Rising temperatures and erratic rainfall have supercharged the breeding of sandflies that spread kala-azar, a neglected tropical disease, putting residents of Turkana...
By Hassan Isilow Johannesburg, South Africa On a mild spring evening in Buffalo, Mariam Abdi was idly scrolling through her social media feed when a video gave her pause...
42 men from Gallari, a community in North East Nigeria, were arbitrarily detained by the military. Three of them have finally regained freedom. Two returned with severe...
Three Syrian cargo vessels have been accused of trafficking in grain stolen from Russia-occupied Ukraine. Newly uncovered documents link the Seychelles company behind...
Raila Amollo Odinga, who has died at the age of 80, was something of a paradox in post-independence Kenyan politics. A leader who repeatedly ran for president, he never...
When Brian Odhiambo, a fisherman, disappeared after allegedly being caught fishing, it revealed a darker reality: wildlife rangers accused of violence, abductions, and...