The alert read, “The Qatar Ministry of Interior announced that it is evacuating residents who live near the U.S. Embassy in Doha as a temporary precautionary measure. Out of an abundance of caution, ...

Global human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has condemned the “sham trial” of social media influencer, Senator Chijinkem Ugwuanyi, who was remanded in prison after being arraigned over ...

Hope Behind Bars Africa (HBBA), the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) and Accountability Lab have endorsed the proposed Human Rights Defenders Bill (HB 1867) ...

Media company MultiChoice Group has announced plans to shut down its streaming service Showmax, bringing an end to one of Africa’s most ambitious video-on-demand platforms after 11 years of operation.

Nigeria’s Vice President, Kashim Shettima, has mocked the opposition African Democratic Congress (ADC), alleging that the party’s membership registration portal was flooded with fictitious names and ...

A yet-to-be-ascertained number of persons, including soldiers, have been killed by militants of the Islamic State-backed ...

Nigeria’s democracy—still evolving and often fragile—needs independent CSOs that hold government accountable and defend the rights of citizens. When civil society chooses independence over influence, ...

An Iranian naval warship returning from a multinational naval exercise in India was sunk early Wednesday after it was struck by a torpedo fired from a United States submarine off the southern coast of ...

Senate Republicans on Wednesday voted to allow the continuation of the United States’ war against Iran, rejecting an effort to curb President Donald Trump’s military authority and signaling strong GOP ...

The Ghana Police Service has announced that the High Court in Wa has sentenced a notorious serial killer to life imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to multiple counts of murder committed across ...

According to the organisation, the young man was arrested during the nationwide #EndSARS demonstrations, which erupted across Nigeria in protest against police brutality and extrajudicial killings ...

But BJ quickly reminded me that upon the receipt of my bill of charges, he would file a counter claim since I had once said, in a public programme, that he and other members of the Socialist Forum ...