A 34-year-old Canadian woman and an Italian partner traveling in West Africa have gone missing, according to family members. They were expected to arrive in Togo before Christmas, but no one has heard from them since they were in Burkina Faso on December 15. Edith Blais, of Quebec, and Luca…
The Committee to Protect Journalists is calling on authorities in Tanzania to release two CPJ staffers they say were detained Wednesday night in Dar es Salaam. Angela Quintal, the CPJ coordinator for Africa, right, and colleague Muthoki Mumo went missing from their hotel room after officers who said they were…
International NGO Human Rights Watch is calling on South Sudan to investigate the forced disappearances of Dong Samuel Luak and Aggrey Idri, who went missing from the streets of Nairobi in January 2017. Luak, left, a human rights lawyer and critic of President Salva Kiir’s government, held refugee status in…
In South Sudan, the SPLM-IO has called shameful the decision to condemn James Gatdet Dak, a former spokesman for exiled opposition leader Riek Machar, to death by hanging on charges of treason. “When the regime should be working to create a conducive environment for negotiations, they are instead handing down…
Where is Diane Shima Rwigara? Authorities in Rwanda deny that the opposition political figure who sought to run against newly elected President Paul Kagame is detained, but multiple accounts from witnesses and family members in recent days dispute their claims. Now the humanitarian organization People Salvation Movement, founded by Rwigara…
United States officials report that six teens from Burundi who traveled to Washington DC to compete in the FIRST Global robotics competition have been unaccounted for since Tuesday night. The city’s police department posted social media messages on Thursday morning with photos of the missing six, asking people to help…
President Peter Mutharika will return to Malawi from the United States this weekend, the government said Tuesday. State House Press Secretary Mgeme Kalilani sent a statement to local news outlets assuring Malawians that Mutharika, who left Lilongwe on September 13 to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York…