It is a cruel irony that Tanzania, which plays host to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Arusha, is fast ...

Strong leaders do not need to rely on torture or sexual violence to win or stay in power. Development record and respect for ...

East Africa witnessed yet another alarming erosion of rule of law and disregard for fundamental rights recently, when Martha Karua, former Minister for Justice, was deported back to Kenya by the ...

Perchance, you have seen, heard, or heard of them. They are loud, chaotic, swift, and unmistakably violent. Moving with aplomb at the beck and call of their political masters, they are ready to maim, ...

Mama Samia’s government is also under intense pressure to take responsibility and account for the detention and torture of ...

Opposition activists from Kenya allege that they were detained and tortured in neighboring Tanzania. "To our neighbors from ...

Drawing on this incident, Were exposes the alarming regional trend of coordinated repression against cross-border activism in ...

Tanzania's government is facing growing accusations of repression after prominent human rights defenders say they were beaten ...

A cleric has urged Ireland to stop foreign aid to Tanzania should it fail to apologise over detention of activists Boniface ...

This past week, activists Boniface Mwangi and Agatha Atuhaire shared harrowing accounts of their treatment in Tanzania, ...

The trigger for the complaint was a statement by Mr Atwoli accusing human rights advocates like Martha Karua and Willy Mutunga of stirring political tensions in Tanzania, to the detriment of Kenyan ...

Activists and politicians from Kenya and Uganda recently travelled to Tanzania to show solidarity with opposition leader ...