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. Leaders there don’t seem ...

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 ...

In last week’s column titled 'EA regimes mirror each other in political repression', I delved deeper into the ordeal faced by opposition leaders in the region, one that mirrors a playbook due to the ...

Karua, who was among those refused entry into Tanzania recently, called for an end to illegal detentions and torture in the ...