The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN), the country’s premier Film Trade Association Body, has announced good news for cinema lovers on the occasion of the International Cinema Day. Opeyemi Ajayi, the chairman of the…
South Africa: Battered and bruised, another woman found…
East Rand residents came out in numbers to support the family of a 31-year-old woman who was allegedly killed by her live-in lover in yet another episode of gender-based violence. Thokozile Kubheka died on Friday…
Tired Kenyans march against ‘dogged’ police violence
Dozens in Kenya’s capital Nairobi held peaceful demonstrations on Monday against police brutality. Marching through Mathare slums, the demonstrators demanded justice for the victims of extrajudicial killings. According to Kenya’s Independent Policing Oversight Authority, at…
Uganda: Opposition Leader Reportedly Tortured by Police
An opposition member of parliament was reportedly tortured after security forces arrested him for distributing food to constituents on April 19, 2020, Human Rights Watch said today. Uganda should urgently investigate the claims by witnesses…
Journalists protest alleged police brutality in Liberia
Journalists in Liberia took to the streets in Monrovia on Thursday to denounce alleged harassment by security forces. The protest follows the death of journalist Zenu Koboi last month. “The Press Union of Liberia calls…
White giraffes killed in Kenya
Rangers had found the remains of the female and her calf in a village in north-eastern Kenya's Garissa County. A third white giraffe is alive. It is thought to be the only remaining one in…
