Category: Legal Matters

A freelance journalist for The New York Times went on trial Wednesday in Zimbabwe, accused of helping two of the newspaper’s reporters enter the country illegally. Critics say the charges are another example of the government’s attempts to control the …

The South African man charged with arson for burning down large parts of the country’s historic parliament buildings has also been charged with terrorism.Forty-nine-year-old Zandile Christmas Mafe made his second appearance in court Tuesday. He is now …

With kidnappings and other crimes on the rise in Nigeria, the U.S. State Department is urging Americans, dual citizens and others to “reconsider travel” to the West African country.The State Department’s travel advisory, issued January 4, warns that “v…

Desmond Tutu is being remembered for his passionate advocacy on behalf of LGBTQ people as well as his fight for racial justice. But the South African archbishop’s campaign against homophobia had limited impact in the rest of Africa, where same-sex marr…

There is nothing glamorous about being a YouTuber in Rwanda, says John Williams Ntwali, whose channel Pax TV is a year old. The pay is poor, the threats frequent and the risk of prison all too real.Ntwali has been arrested multiple times during his two…

The migrant crisis on Poland’s border, which Western powers accuse Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko of engineering, caught international attention in November. But asylum seekers on the Poland-Belarus border aren’t alone in being shunted back and…

For attorney Esther Agbaje, the desire to make a difference sealed her case for seeking elective office.”I have always had jobs that were in this space of helping people,” said Agbaje, who worked on human rights cases with the U.S. State Department, de…

Free press advocates are calling for accountability for perpetrators of crimes against media workers as they commemorated the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists.According to the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS), an advoc…