AFRICA

Tunisia’s escalating crackdown

Anti-racism and migrants’ rights activism under attack

NORTHERN AFRICA

Mali heads in the wrong direction

Military junta ramps up repression instead of calling elections

Senegal’s democracy passes crucial test

Having overcome authoritarian threat, Senegal offers hope for the region

Sudan’s conflict needs civil society solutions

Peace can’t be left in the hands of the generals

CONFLICT | CRISIS

Mauritius begins to correct a historic wrong towards LGBTQI+ people

Supreme Court rejects criminalisation of same-sex relations as an abhorrent colonial relic

Ethiopia: no peace, no justice

Government is doing everything it can to evade international accountability

CONFLICT | CRISIS

Gabon: the end of a dictatorship… and the beginning of another?

Military coups rarely lead to democracy

Sudan: millions forced to flee conflict

Urgent humanitarian response needed for the many displaced in the country and across borders

CONFLICT | CRISIS

Zimbabwe: prospects for change denied in skewed election

Ruling party uses every lever available to tilt results

SOUTHERN AFRICA

Tunisia: racism on top of repression

Attacks on Black Africans latest tactic of authoritarian president

NORTHERN AFRICA