Algeria’s Responsibility for Human Rights Violations in Tindouf camps is Imprescriptible (Norwegian expert) Rabat, 16/06/2020 (MAP) – Norwegian civil society activist Eric Cameron, President of the NGO World Action for Refugees, underlined the imprescriptible responsibility of Algeria for the humanitarian situation in the Tindouf camps in remarks he made for […]
Human rights groups have condemned the “unnecessary and excessive use of force” by Kenyan police as the country imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew amid efforts to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. On Friday, police fired tear gas at a crowd of ferry commuters in the port city of Mombasa […]
A Security Expert, Daniel Akpalu has expressed fears that there would be uncontrolled violence if the Togolese Electoral Commission did not give correct details of the recently held elections. He has therefore urged the Togolese citizens to push the country to a referendum for their Constitution to be re-written. According […]
Despite widespread popular support for gender equality, African women are still disadvantaged by persistent gender gaps in education, employment, control over key assets, and access to technology, an Afrobarometer has revealed. The analysis, released Monday, reports that although there were substantial cross-country differences, African societies were generally supportive of women’s […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said during a speech on Wednesday that Turkey would be justified in striking individuals it viewed as terrorists in foreign territory and that he hoped he could deliver “good news” on the subject soon. The comments came amid a row with the Washington over moves […]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said his country has the right to kill individuals abroad who Turkey sees as threats to its national security, adding that good news on the issue would come soon. Erdoğan’s controversial remarks came during his party’s weekly meeting on Wednesday. In an apparent reference […]
Africa’s future depends on “accurate, reliable information” to enrich its democracy and ensure its development progress, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo told British parliamentarians and thought leaders. In his keynote address to the Afrobarometer/University of Strathclyde Conference on “Public Opinion, Democratic Governance, and Inclusive Development in Africa” in Glasgow, Scotland, […]
New Afrobarometer survey data shows that most Africans support democratic elections as the best way to choose their leaders if they see their previous elections as free and fair, and especially if those elections produced a change in leadership, In the seventh of its Pan-Africa Profiles series based on recent […]
The political opposition in Benin, Alliance for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (ASDA) has called for a change of government at the executive level, followed by new, inclusive legislative elections and accompanied by the restoration of the civil liberties in Benin. According to the group civil liberties have been eroded since […]
A project advancing committee has met in Accra to lay down proper roadmap for the ongoing infrustractural boosting among the 16 West African States. The project which is part of effort to boost community trade, facilitate transport and road transit in the west African sub-region through the provision of […]
