Politics Bound

Ouagadougou, May 20, 2020  - Human Rights Watch called Wednesday on the Burkina Faso authorities to hold an independent investigation into the jail cell deaths of 12 men whose relatives say were executed by the security forces. The 12 men, among 25 arrested for...

Bamako, May 19, 2020 - About one hundred people took to the streets in Mali's capital Bamako on Tuesday to protest the recent arrest of a prominent anticorruption activist in the poor West African state. A security official, who requested anonymity, said that...

Egyptian security services on Sunday detained the editor-in-chief of prominent independent news outlet Mada Masr, its lawyer said, the latest in a crackdown against journalists.  Lina Attallah was arrested outside Cairo's Tora prison as she was interviewing rights...

Addis Ababa, May 18, 2020 - Ethiopia sees no reason to delay filling its controversial mega-dam despite warnings from Egypt that such a move could destabilise the region, according to a letter from Ethiopia's foreign minister to the UN Security Council. The Grand...