Show All People gather with placards outside the Ghana High Commission in London on March 6, 2024, to protest against Ghana's anti-LGBTQ+ bill. © Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images LGBTI Ghanaians Left With Nowhere To Turn Nana Annette Namata was assaulted by police officers in April 2019, at the gate of the Uganda Police headquarters in Kampala. © D. Asiimwe These Ugandans Say They Were Sexually Assaulted by the State In Tanzania, female genital mutilation (FGM) has been illegal since 1998, but the practice continues in many parts of the country. © Rowen Smith/Unsplash Tanzania: Inside the Trade in Body Parts Driving FGM Wealth inequalities and a growing conservative backlash are combining to put lives at risk. © IWPR Kenya Allows Safe Abortion. So Why Are Women Dying? Protest by Ada youth in Accra. © Edward Clement Kumsah Ghana: How Local Media Defied Pressure Over Vast Mine Deal Susan Auma and Robert Adongo, Peter Otieno’s mother and brother, hold his funeral pamphlet. Otieno died from injuries allegedly inflicted by police during protests in Kondele, Kisumu County, on July 12, 2023. © Thomas Mukhwana/IWPR Kenyans Maimed by the State Demand Accountability Plain clothed and uniformed security operatives arrest Sammy Okanya (C) in Kampala on July 23 2024. © Haggai Matsiko/IWPR/Agora How Uganda Tried to Silence Protest On the evening of July 29 insurgents attacked and shot dead four police officers at a security checkpoint along Owerri-Onitsha road in Imo state. © Kunle Adebajo Separatists Abroad Are Funding a Conflict in Nigeria. Others Pay the Price Show moreGALLERIES All regions, Any mediaAll regionsAfricaAsiaEurope & EurasiaLatin America & the CaribbeanMiddle East & North AfricaMediaAny mediaPhotosVideosAudioMultimedia
People gather with placards outside the Ghana High Commission in London on March 6, 2024, to protest against Ghana's anti-LGBTQ+ bill. © Adrian Dennis/AFP via Getty Images LGBTI Ghanaians Left With Nowhere To Turn
Nana Annette Namata was assaulted by police officers in April 2019, at the gate of the Uganda Police headquarters in Kampala. © D. Asiimwe These Ugandans Say They Were Sexually Assaulted by the State
In Tanzania, female genital mutilation (FGM) has been illegal since 1998, but the practice continues in many parts of the country. © Rowen Smith/Unsplash Tanzania: Inside the Trade in Body Parts Driving FGM
Wealth inequalities and a growing conservative backlash are combining to put lives at risk. © IWPR Kenya Allows Safe Abortion. So Why Are Women Dying?
Protest by Ada youth in Accra. © Edward Clement Kumsah Ghana: How Local Media Defied Pressure Over Vast Mine Deal
Susan Auma and Robert Adongo, Peter Otieno’s mother and brother, hold his funeral pamphlet. Otieno died from injuries allegedly inflicted by police during protests in Kondele, Kisumu County, on July 12, 2023. © Thomas Mukhwana/IWPR Kenyans Maimed by the State Demand Accountability
Plain clothed and uniformed security operatives arrest Sammy Okanya (C) in Kampala on July 23 2024. © Haggai Matsiko/IWPR/Agora How Uganda Tried to Silence Protest
On the evening of July 29 insurgents attacked and shot dead four police officers at a security checkpoint along Owerri-Onitsha road in Imo state. © Kunle Adebajo Separatists Abroad Are Funding a Conflict in Nigeria. Others Pay the Price