Albert Omondi Ojwang, a 31-year-old teacher and prominent social media commentator based in Voi, was found dead on the morning of Sunday, June 8, in a cell at Nairobi’s Central Police Station. Known ...

Tanzanian authorities have deregistered a church owned by a ruling party lawmaker after he accused the government of human ...

Authorities in Tanzania have deregistered a church owned by a ruling party MP after he accused the government of human rights ...

Tanzanian rights activist Maria Sarungi Tsehai was abducted in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on Sunday, Amnesty International and ... Samia Suluhu Hassan took office in 2021, she was initially praised ...

In March 1979, police arrested novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o and his co-author Ngugi wa Mirie for "drinking after hours" and ...

As Kenya braces for the official reading of the 2025/26 national budget next week, civil society organizations under the Okoa ...

The content is contrary to the nation's "laws, culture, customs, and traditions", the information minister says.

FILE: Kenya's President William Ruto speaks during ... a coalition of rights groups including Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists, said the number of confirmed ...

Between December 31, 1977, and December 12, 1978, Ngugi was detained without trial at Kamiti Maximum Prison for having ...

In February the RSF and its allies signed a political charter in Kenya’s capital Nairobi ... according to the UN and international human rights groups. Last month, Amnesty International released an ...

Ngugi was a titan of modern African literature - a storyteller who refused to be bound by jail in Kenya, exile and illness ...

Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has paid an emotional tribute to literary giant Prof. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, calling ...