Exiled as children, people from the Chagos Islands celebrated on Tuesday the news that the United Nations 39; top court had told Britain to give up control of the Indian Ocean archipelago. The English would never have believed that one day, the people of Chagos would have overthrown them, said Emilienne Louis, describing how she arrived ...

A new film set during the 2010-11 post-election violence in Ivory Coast and centred around the courage of a 12-year-old girl, premiered Tuesday at Fespaco, Africa 39;s biggest film festival. Desrances is written and directed by Burkinabe film-maker Apolline Traore, whose 2017 film Frontieres also featured at Fespaco. Her new film f ...

Four opposition activists in Equatorial Guinea have been arrested, their parties said on Tuesday, on the anniversary of a crackdown by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema. The biggest opposition group, the outlawed Citizens for Innovation (CI) party, said three of its members were detained by security forces on Tuesday. Soldiers had come to ...

Human rights defenders and activists in Equatorial Guinea are facing arbitrary arrests, attacks and persecution for their work, Amnesty International said today. In a new report published today, while the country chairs until the end of the month the UN Security Council, and ahead of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in May, Amnesty Inter ...

An opposition activist in Equatorial Guinea has been arrested, his party said on Tuesday, on the anniversary of a crackdown by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema. The country 39;s second biggest opposition party, the Convergence for Social Democracy (CPDS), said that one of its members had been detained early Monday for criticising Obiang, wh ...