Fears for missing Zimbabwe activist

Several diplomats were at Mbonimpa’s hospital bedside before the police arrived

Opposition leader Andargachew Tsege appears on Ethiopian state television, following his disappearance from Yemen last month.

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Activist, family in hiding after gun-point threat
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One journalist and his family have fled their residence after armed men stormed the residence and at gun point threatened to kill him and his family should he continue with his investigative work. Putting a stop to his inquiry into the illicit trade of government ...

A Zambian court acquits a human rights activist on charges of promoting homosexuality, in a ruling hailed as a boost for gay rights in Africa.

Two Rwandan police officers are jailed for 20 years for murdering an anti-corruption activist investigating cross-border mineral smuggling.

Allow me to start by introducing myself as a self-proclaimed social-political arm chair activist. That is, I prefer to make noise from a distance about the failures of our system, from the comfort zone of a home or behind (social) media.

The US embassy yesterday awarded Ms Joyce Stephano Nyembe the 2014 Woman of Courage award in recognition of her courage and perseverance in championing the rights of women and people living with HIV and Aids in Tanzania.

A Somali-born campaigner against female genital mutilation, Safia Abdi Haase, becomes the first African to be knighted in Norway.

An Egyptian court jails Alaa Abdel Fattah, a key figure in the 2011 uprising, for five years at a retrial for breaking protest laws.