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The detention of two activists from the Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) has been extended until Friday. A bail hearing in the case was held on Tuesday...

The leaders of one of Zimbabwe's main activist movements have been remanded in custody by the courts in Bulawayo since Friday. Jenni Williams and...

A call for an indefinite stayaway by Zimbabwe's opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, had a mixed response on 15 April, the day...

Hundreds of Burundian soldiers scheduled for demobilisation under a donor-recommended programme have refused to complete the process until various...

The Swazi police has been accused of using excessive force and the army has been deployed for domestic policing after a rare episode of political...

Around 500 Liberian refugees in Ghana are in the fourth week of an “indefinite sit down strike” to draw attention to what they see as dissatisfactory...

The Sierra Leone government has called for an inquiry into unrest over diamond-mining operations in the east of the country after residents were...

Concrete walls, boulders, tyres; enclosed vegetable gardens: These are just some of the means Senegal’s coastal communities are using to stop...

More than 30 people, including several peacekeepers, have been wounded during a demonstration by hundreds of civilians displaced by fighting in...