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Senegal’s government began blocking several digital platforms – including Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram and YouTube – in certain areas on 1 June. Days later, it extended the disruptions to all mobile internet and several television stations.
The social networks were …
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Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni assented to the anti-homosexuality bill on 26 May 2023. The new law legislates, among other things, a ten-year jail term for “attempted homosexuality”, a 20-year jail term for “promotion of homosexuality”, a life sentence for “the …
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In 2022, the Human Rights and Law Index ranked countries globally according to human rights violations. African countries claimed four spots out of the top 10. Human rights are fundamental liberties and entitlements to which every individual is entitled. But …
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Data from Nigeria’s ministry of health says the country accounts for about 512 maternal mortalities per 100,000 births—one of the worst in the world. Of this figure, death from unsafe abortions constitutes roughly 40 percent. A string of restrictive abortion …
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If job seekers in South Africa currently had the right to freely enter voluntary contracts with employers at wages and on conditions acceptable to both parties, the country would not have mass unemployment. Figures recently released by Statistics SA confirm …
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Mental health professionals from across Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, Cameroon, Nigeria and South Africa, have signed a declaration against conversion practices that are used to forcibly change the sexual orientation, gender identity or expression of LGBTIQ+ people.
The declaration unambiguously …
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The Zimbabwean government believes that doctors and nurses share the blame for the country’s declining healthcare. Health workers in the country frequently embark on strike actions because of poor health infrastructures and poor pay. Lawmakers have amended the health services …
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A few days after the birth of 2023, Nigerian music sensation Olawale Olofooro, better known as Brymo, opened a can of ethnic bigotry when he took to Twitter to say that anyone from the Igbo ethnic group should not be …
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On January 6, 2023, fashion model Edwin Chiloba was murdered by his lover, Jacktone Odhiambo. Chiloba was a Kenyan fashion model and a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) activist. The ugly incident placed the issues affecting the LGBT community …
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If the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Bill 2022 is passed, South Africa will become only the third country in the world to fully decriminalize sex work. It would no longer be illegal to buy or sell …
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