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16/09/2025

It's a trend of regimes’ battle against their own people across the region and beyond with autocrats installing fear based systems designed impose their will on everyone in a bid to cling to power.

Criminalisation of dissent has given rise to blind obedience and ignorance to become policy. Intellectuals who cannot toe the line are killed or jailed. Others run away, resulting in considerable b…

16/08/2025

No single East African country had a clean bill of health on rights record last year with situations either having deteriorated or remained worse.

Governments in East Africa are facing scrutiny over poor human rights record with evidence pointing to a spate of extrajudicial killings, torture and gagging the media space last year. The 2024 Cou…

04/05/2025

Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia enter ‘very serious’ situation with regard to journalists‘ safety and free press.

Media fraternity in Rwanda, Uganda and Ethiopia have little to no freedom to celebrate as journalists operate in an increasingly hostile environment.

29/03/2025

The build up of President Kagame’s new persona and the cultivation of a cult of personality.
With this it becomes dangerous to challenge him or criticize his policies.

With the rising cult of personality, it becomes dangerous for Rwandans to challenge Kagame or criticize his policy.

17/01/2025

Floods and droughts not only claim lives but also constantly wash away arable land and dry up rivers, rendering villages and towns across Africa unlivable.
What lay in store in 2025 is cause for even greater concern

Mozambique is the latest casualty reeling from effects of cyclone Chido. Heavy rainfall affected roughly 11 million people, including 2,500 fatalities and 4 million displacements in 27 countries.

12/11/2024

Trump might not only take the US out of the Paris Agreement, yet again, but might also try to leave the UN Convention on Climate Change.
Environment watchdogs want the International community to be able to take climate action without the US if necessary.

There are worries that pledges by the US at this year’s climate talks could be reversed by Trump when he officially takes office early next year.

14/10/2024

Growing concerns over risks of being presented with technologies that are harmful, and those conceiving the technologies imposing their worldview on the rest across the globe. MORE 👇

While tech companies are embracing technical talents from the African continent or considering the global majority countries as a space where they could hire talents, it hasn’t become so mainstream…

21/09/2024

The education system needs to give people the tools to interrogate whatever life throws at them, and the ruling class needs to foster freedom of thought even if it comes at the cost of the citizenry becoming critical of how affairs of the State are run. It is this that will deliver a society that can resist brainwashing.

Rwanda’s ruling class needs to foster freedom of thought even if it comes at the cost of the citizenry becoming critical of how it runs affairs to the State.

17/06/2024

For the first time in nearly 7 years, the number of internet shutdowns rose to a record 283.
But what’s fueling this rise, and why does this archaic tool of repression remain fashionable and widespread despite the proliferation of a wide range of technologies, including sophisticated ones, used for propaganda and surveillance that target largely opponents and journalists?
Catch what rights groups&policy analysts have to say.

Internet shutdowns have remained widespread despite the proliferation of a wide range technologies, including sophisticated ones, used by Governments for censorship, propaganda and surveillance.

21/03/2024

Current configuration, if unaddressed, undermines the right to access to information and generally places insurmountable hurdles to current and future news media enterprises in Africa.

To take on internet platforms calls for collective bargaining from not just media companies but regulators or regional countries in order to leverage their strengths.

21/02/2024

Member States’ support to the African Union barely affords the latter political and financial muscle that match the scale of the problems it confronts.
Here is what's at stake.
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05/01/2024

Their collective work promises to minimize volumes of waste that end up at landfills and other locations in rural and urban parts of Africa where poor disposal foments pollution responsible for estimated 1.2 million deaths annually.
But will they survive in the absence of funding/support?
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Johnson Kanamugire December 25, 2023 Africa, East Africa, Economy Funding woes plague circular startups working to fix the waste crisis Briquette production operations at Kigali-based COPED Ltd. The products serve as a substitute to wood and charcoal for cooking. PHOTO | COURTESY Despite dominant st...