With conservatism on the rise, the capital’s third-gender and trans people retreat from public life, erasing the identities they once fought to display.

Decades after the country introduced quotas, phantom candidacies and political deals still stifle women’s representation.

Months after an informal settlement’s demolition, the site is under development as displaced residents grapple with ...

The issue doesn’t affect Kyambogo University alone. According to a report by Human Rights Watch, in October 2019 security ...

Women who lived through Indonesia’s anti-communist terror blend art and protest to block government plans that would honor ...

United by grief, they’re fighting to make the former president answer for extrajudicial killings during his campaign against ...

The short-lived sale is just the latest example in a long line of inconsistent policies, says Ithiel Mavesere, a lecturer in ...

Dharavi, Asia’s largest informal settlement, is home to over 1 million people. Narrow lanes, exposed electrical wires and closely packed homes define the neighborhood. Its location between two major ...

Zimbabwe is among the world’s top producers of lithium. But border guards, mine employees and researchers say records show only a fraction of what’s really moving out of the country.

Merveille Kavira Luneghe, GPJ DRC Anselme Hamundwate, 23, right, and Mumbere Hamundwate, 25, work in a field in Katwa. After months of fighting in Lubero territory, returning farmers are burning their ...

Christians say the dormant law, first passed in the 1970s, targets their faith. Those trying to revive it say it is essential for preservation of indigenous faiths and culture.

Danger at home and hunger in exile Across East Africa, thousands of refugee families like hers, particularly from South Sudan, the world’s youngest country which has spent much of its short life in a ...