For authoritarian-minded leaders, the coronavirus crisis is offering a convenient pretext to silence critics and consolidate power. Censorship in China and elsewhere has fed the pandemic, helping to turn a potentially containable threat into a global calamity. The health crisis…

While it may seem the coronavirus is reaching Africa more slowly than other regions, Human Rights Watch Africa Director Mausi Segun fears it could soon ravage the continent, in part because of countries’ weak public health and healthcare systems and…

Rights groups call on government to release Ciham Ali Ahmed and other detainees amid fears of a coronavirus outbreak Prominent human rights groups have urged the government of Eritrea to "immediately and unconditionally" release political detainees held in the country's…

Ethiopia The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on Africa is exacerbated by poor heath systems and ill-equipped facilities in most parts of the continent. One medical equipment that has assumed star status in the wake of the current pandemic are…