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May
04
2026
By The African Mirror
$334 Million and a city built on conquest: Israel formalises its war crime in the Golan

$334 Million and a city built on conquest: Israel formalises its war crime in the Golan

WORLD
THE Israeli cabinet’s approval of a 334-million-dollar development plan for the occupied Syrian Golan Heights is not, by itself, the beginning of a new policy. It is the financial and institutional crystallisation of a dispossession that has been under construction since 1967. What is new - and what demands the world’s attention - is the scale of the ambition, the timing of the announcement, and the near-total silence of the powers best positioned to stop it. The plan, adopted by the Israeli government, earmarks funding to expand the settlement of Katzrin - founded in 1977 on Syrian land occupied in…
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Apr
29
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENTS
World Cup 2026: football’s biggest party is being hosted by a country gripped by fear

World Cup 2026: football’s biggest party is being hosted by a country gripped by fear

WORLD
FORTY-five days before the world's biggest football tournament kicks off on American soil, a damning new report has cast a long shadow over what was meant to be football's most inclusive World Cup in history. Human Rights Watch released a 79-page guide on Monday, warning journalists, fans, players, and workers that the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup is unfolding against a backdrop of abusive immigration enforcement in the United States, new threats to media freedom, discrimination, and unmet human rights commitments by FIFA and host cities. The tournament - the first to span three countries, opening on June 11 across…
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Apr
28
2026
By The African Mirror
Uganda’s sovereignty bill: dressed as patriotism, built for repression

Uganda’s sovereignty bill: dressed as patriotism, built for repression

NEWS
WHEN governments reach for the language of sovereignty to justify restricting their own citizens, history counsels alarm. Uganda's Protection of Sovereignty Bill of 2026 is precisely such a moment - and Africa must be watching. Introduced before parliament on April 15 by Internal Affairs State Minister David Muhoozi, the bill proposes criminalising vaguely defined activities that promote the "interests of a foreigner against the interests of Uganda." The phrase sounds reasonable enough until you read the fine print. Clause 5 prohibits any act that promotes the interests of a foreigner against the interests of Uganda, yet nowhere defines what that…
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Apr
02
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Blood on the lakeshore: M23’s terror reign in Uvira exposed

Blood on the lakeshore: M23’s terror reign in Uvira exposed

NEWS
THE  blood had dried on the walls of two houses on the same street. In the first, a father stood in the room where his 16- and 18-year-old sons were executed. M23 fighters and Rwandan soldiers had broken down the door, found them sheltering inside, and shot them dead. Metres away, four more young men - aged 16 to 23 - were killed trying to hide behind a curtain. Their younger brother survived, badly wounded. A neighbour confirmed what everyone on that street already knew: none of these men were fighters. They were civilians. Their blood still marks the walls.…
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Mar
31
2026
By The African Mirror
HRW demands Ghana scrap bill that would jail people for who they are

HRW demands Ghana scrap bill that would jail people for who they are

NEWS
HUMAN Rights Watch has issued a sweeping indictment of Ghana's Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, 2025, warning the country's parliament that the legislation represents one of the most expansive assaults on individual rights ever to come before a Ghanaian legislature - and demanding that it be killed before it reaches a second reading. In a formal written memorandum submitted Monday to the Parliament's Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee, the global rights body warned that the bill does not merely regulate conduct - it criminalises identity, mandates citizen surveillance, destroys civil society, and threatens to land journalists, doctors, lawyers,…
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Mar
20
2026
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
How Tanzanian security forces killed hundreds of bystanders in the October 2025 post-election crackdown

How Tanzanian security forces killed hundreds of bystanders in the October 2025 post-election crackdown

NEWS
TANZANIAN security forces killed and injured scores of people who had no part in post-election protests during and after the country's disputed October 2025 general elections, Human Rights Watch has found -  with the organisation warning that at least hundreds may have been killed across the country in what it describes as a brazen security crackdown on dissent. In a report released on Thursday, Human Rights Watch said it had documented the deaths of 31 people not participating in protests and received credible information of a further 19 such deaths. The victims included market vendors, motorcycle taxi drivers, a pregnant…
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Mar
13
2026
By The African Mirror
No kiss left unpunished

No kiss left unpunished

SPECIAL FEATURES: ANALYSIS
ON the morning of 18 February, two women in their early twenties - Wendy Faith, 22, a dancer who performs under the name Torrero Bae, and Alesi Diana Denise, 21 - were arrested in Arua City, a provincial capital in Uganda's northwestern West Nile region. The charge: kissing. Their neighbours had been watching. Someone had a camera. The police were called. That simple, intimate act - a kiss between two young women - now carries the weight of Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2023, a law that prescribes life imprisonment for consensual same-sex conduct and reserves the death penalty for what…
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Feb
28
2026
By OWN CORRESPONDENT
Rwanda’s gleaming facade masks a darker reality for government critics

Rwanda’s gleaming facade masks a darker reality for government critics

NEWS
TO the outside world, Rwanda is a marvel. Kigali's skyline rises clean and orderly against the Virunga hills. The country hosts world-class cycling races, football tournaments, and has aggressively courted NBA partnerships and Premier League sponsorships. President Paul Kagame presents his nation as proof that post-genocide Africa can leapfrog the West - a tech-forward, corruption-free democracy rising from the ashes of one of history's worst atrocities. But for citizens who dare to question that narrative, Rwanda can look like something else entirely. According to a report published this week by Human Rights Watch, blogger and commentator Aimable Karasira -  detained…
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Feb
24
2026
By The African Mirror
U.S.-Cameroon deportation deal leaves migrants detained, abused, with nowhere to turn

U.S.-Cameroon deportation deal leaves migrants detained, abused, with nowhere to turn

NEWS
THE United States has quietly deported 17 non-Cameroonian nationals to Cameroon under a covert bilateral agreement, where authorities immediately detained them without legal basis, and journalists who attempted to interview them were themselves arrested and abused, according to Human Rights Watch. The deportees - nationals of Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Zimbabwe - were transferred to Cameroon in January and February in what amounts to a third-country deportation scheme that experts say circumvents both U.S. court orders and binding international law. Among those deported were asylum seekers and at least one…
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