By James Propa The Ugandan Communications Commission (UCC) has directed 13 media houses to suspend 39 employees including producers, heads of news and heads of…
By Tony Cartalucci Libya is back in the news, as fighting escalates around the capital, Tripoli. Forces under the control of Khalifa Haftar – a…
By Afef Abrougui and Emna Sayadi (Activist Post Editor’s Note: Please don’t ignore this article because it is happening “over there.” This article is a…
By ARJUN AP. In the 1990s, vicious rebel groups in central and west Africa seized diamond mines using sale proceeds to prolong brutal civil wars…
By Afef Abrougui Mauritanian authorities arrested two bloggers, Abderrahmane Weddady and Cheikh Ould Jiddou, for reporting on corruption. Weddady and Jiddou were arrested on March…
Op-Ed by Joziah Thayer President Omar al-Bashir declared a state of emergency last month in response to the protest that erupted in mid-December of last…
By Abdoulaye Bah, Translated by Edward Shelley For nearly one year’s time, citizens in Chad have been unable to access the Internet, in spite of…
By James Propa The number of people using the Internet in Uganda has dropped by more than 12 percentage points since July 2018, when the…
By Kudzai Chimhangwa Following the January 12 declaration of an official fuel price hike in Zimbabwe, civil unrest and political paranoia has rocked the nation….
Op-Ed by Joziah Thayer Late last month al-Bashir’s government began restricting access to popular social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter which have been used…
By Joziah Thayer Reporters in Sudan have faced threats, arrest, and torture from President Omar al-Bashir’s security forces as they try to cover the anti-Bashir…
By B.N. Frank Announced last week in Rwanda, The Ministry of Education decided that primary and secondary schools students will no longer be allowed to…
By Daniel J. Mitchell The IMF’s agenda of bigger government and higher taxes is a recipe for continued poverty. A couple of months ago, I…
By Steven MacMillan Africa is set to become a major theatre of war in the near future, as the scale of US military involvement will…
