Amnesty International has revealed that at least 555 persons were killed by jungle justice and mob violence in Nigeria in the last 10 years. In a...
The Deputy Director of Amnesty International for East and Southern Africa, Vongai Chikwanda, has called on Zambian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release a journalist, Thomas...
Amnesty International has condemned the killing of 13 protesters across Nigeria by security personnel in the first day of the #EndBadGovernance protests. AI Country Director for...
As aggrieved Nigerians take to the streets in different parts of the country to embark on a 10-day protest against hardship, hunger, food shortages and the...
Rights organization, Amnesty International, has accused the Nigerian army of unlawfully holding young women and children who had escaped from Boko Haram’s captivity because the military...
Global human rights group, Amnesty International, says it harbours fears over an impending Anti-Homosexuality Law in Uganda leading to the death penalty for offenders. AI raised...
Gay rights activists in Uganda have reacted negatively to the country’s parliament passing an Anti-Homosexuality Act Bill which criminalizes same-sex relations. The Ugandan lawmakers on Tuesday,...
The international rights group, Amnesty International has raised concern over what it called the “narrowing of the space for individual freedoms“ in West Africa. The Secretary-General of...
Global human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, has called on the Ethiopian government to launch what it calls an “impartial” probe into the mass killings where over...
Two international human rights groups, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have accused Ethiopian forces from the Amhara region of committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing...