By Antonia Molloy Desmond Tutu Desmond Tutu has urged Uganda’s President not to sign a harsh Anti-Homosexuality Bill that could see same-sex couples sentenced to life in prison. South... Read more
By Maye Primera Power sets barriers and the reporter pushes back against them—it’s an unwritten rule on which Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez believed all journalistic work is... Read more
By Hamza Hendawi In this Friday, Sept. 20, 2013 file photo, Egypt’s Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi, right, and army... Read more
By Rodney Muhumuza Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni has signed off a bill introducing anti-gay laws. Photograph: Carl Court/AP ENTEBBE, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s president signed an... Read more
By David Smith Kenyans wear masks to preserve their anonymity while staging a rare protest last month against Uganda’s anti-gay laws at the Uganda High Commission in Nairobi. Photograp... Read more
By Ayo Benjamin People waiting to buy kerosene at a filling station in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital One gets the feeling that beyond the unresolved issues of the exact sum spent on kerosene subs... Read more
Registration has opened for the seventh World Summit on Media for Children (WSMC), taking place for the first time in Asia in September this year. More than 1,000 producers, broadcasters, me... Read more
By Jaye Gaskia As the 2015 general elections approach, and before it, the test cases in the governorship elections of Osun and Ekiti States; the desperation within the ruling class will incr... Read more
By Femi Falana Sanusi Lamido Sanusi Very recently, President Goodluck Jonathan was reported to have asked Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi to resign as the Governor of the Central Bank. Convin... Read more
By Alicia Graef Denmark is stirring up some controversy about whether animal rights should take precedence over religious freedom with a ban on kosher and halal slaughter that went into effe... Read more