Governments across Africa have used pandemic measures to suppress their opponents and the media, Amnesty International, a UK-based non-governmental organization, found in its latest annual report released on Wednesday (7 April). ..
COVID-19 has caused vast suffering across Europe, and the European Union’s slow vaccine rollout threatens to prolong the agony. If the region’s leaders do not take decisive action soon, the pandemic could cause irreversible ..
The Sahel, a region south of the Sahara desert stretching from the Atlantic coast to Sudan, is experiencing its worst escalation in violence in ten years. The Sahel includes the five states of the ‘G5 Sahel’, a regional ..
EU governments are divided over whether and what restrictions, if any, should be imposed on the use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. This became clear at a recent meeting of health ministers and officials from the European ..
Following his criticism of the junta back home, Myanmar’s ambassador to the UK, Kyaw Zwar Minn, was locked out of the country‘s embassy in London – apparently by his deputy on Wednesday (7 April), who was reported to ..