Human Rights
Judge Throws Out Emeka Ike’s Case, Says Leaking His Private Voter Data Is Not A Human Rights Breach
A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed Nollywood actor Emeka Ike’s N10 billion human rights lawsuit against Lere Olayinka, the Senior Special...
Senegal High Court Refers French National and 14 Accomplices to Criminal Chamber for Transnational Child Exploitation and Deliberate HIV Transmission
The senior investigating judge at the Dakar High Court has formally closed the judicial inquiry into a transnational child exploitation network linked to...
ABU Student Remanded in Prison Over Alleged Forged Letter Linking Tinubu to US Drug Case After Two Weeks in DSS Custody
Mubarak Abdullahi, a Criminology student in the Department of Sociology at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, has been remanded in prison custody after being...
Gambia’s FGM Ban Under Threat as Imam Abdoulie Fatty and MP Almameh Gibba Push to Make Cutting Girls Legal Again
Two men are leading the charge to overturn The Gambia’s ban on female genital mutilation, and if they succeed, the practice that has...
Kenya’s Crackdown on Foreign Hawkers Triggers Xenophobia Fears, Echoes South Africa
Kenya has launched a sweeping crackdown on foreign nationals operating small-scale businesses, triggering panic among migrants and drawing comparisons to the xenophobic violence...
Ugandans Demand Deportation of American Missionary Mac Miller Over Racist Comments, Calls to Children
A wave of outrage has swept across Uganda after an American missionary was caught on video making racist remarks, including telling a local...
Libyan State Bank Drags Burkina Faso to World Bank Tribunal Over Nationalised Bank
The Libyan Foreign Bank, a state-owned investment bank, has filed an international arbitration claim against Burkina Faso at the World Bank Group’s International...
Abia Assembly Passes Law to Protect Tenants from Exploitation by Landlords, House Agents
The Abia State House of Assembly has passed a new law establishing the Abia State Property and Tenancy Regulatory Authority, a landmark legislation...
Royal Caribbean Delayed Medication for African Family, Then Forced Them Off the Ship
A Nigerian family of five saw their dream vacation become a traumatic ordeal when Royal Caribbean forced them off the ship in Greece,...
Burkina Faso Leader Vows Sharia Law Will Never Be Implemented in the Country
Burkina Faso’s transitional President, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has declared that Sharia law will never be allowed in the country, reaffirming the nation’s secular...
SERAP Threatens to Sue Nigeria’s National Assembly Over ‘Backdoor’ Social Media Bill
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has threatened to drag the National Assembly to court over the proposed Nigeria Data Protection (Amendment)...
Niger Formally Leaves International Criminal Court, Citing Selective Justice
Niger has formally withdrawn from the International Criminal Court, becoming the third country to leave the global judicial body after the Philippines and...