Experts estimate that some 13 million barrels of oil have been spilt in the Niger Delta since exploration began in 1958—the equivalent of an Exxon Valdez every year for 50 years.
Unionists are demanding answers following the apparent killing in custody of Sipho Jele, an activist in the Swaziland Agriculture and Plantation Workers’ Union (SAPWU) arrested during May Day protests.
Members of the Mauritanian diaspora are holding a protest at the country’s Washington embassy against Prime Minster Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf’s move to ban African languages.
Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, in a survey of global press-freedom “Predators,” ranks Eritrea’s President Issaias Afeworki as the world’s worst abuser of media freedom.
At an Ethiopian and Eritrean Friendship Conference in San Jose, Calif., panelists emphasized the need to renew people-to-people relations—in repudiation of the region’s ruthless rulers.
A site housing the burial grounds of the former kings of Buganda was gutted by fire outside the Ugandan capital, sparking fears of tension between the government and ethnic Baganda.
The arrest of accused operatives of Somalia’s Islamist insurgency with apparent ties to Eritrea has sparked a diplomatic fracas, with the Asmara regime charging a US-led propaganda campaign.
Government troops—the FARDC—in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are to blame for much of the epidemic of sexual violence in the east of the country, according to US and UN reports.
The US State Department’s annual human rights report charges that Ethiopia is holding several hundred political prisoners. Ethiopia responded that the report has “erroneous claims.”
In its annual human rights country report, the US State Department accuses Eritrea of systematically abusing human rights, as well as sponsoring terrorism in the Horn of Africa.
Federal prosecutors charged an Eritrean suspect, Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, of conspiring to provide material support to al-Shabab, the main insurgent army in Somalia.
Hundreds were again killed in violence around the city of Jos, Nigeria, with witnesses saying the attackers “knew what to do and were trained on how to do it.”
