The image captures a group of protesters being dispersed by security forces in a public space /AI ILLUSTRATED East African regimes are increasingly resorting to the same security playbook to repress ...

DAR ES SALAAM - A leaked document claiming to outline a covert USAID strategy to support Tanzanian opposition leaders ahead of the 2025 general elections has triggered a storm of controversy--drawing ...

The Office of the Registrar of Political Parties has announced that it will withhold government subsidies to Chadema ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that Uganda's LGBTQ community has faced worsening persecution since the country passed one of ...

As treason and misinformation charges against opposition leader Tundu Lissu draw international attention, Ugandan and Kenyan ...

Amid the capitulation of legislatures and elections rendered meaningless, grassroots organising can save democracy.

DODOMA: MINISTER for Agriculture Hussein Bashe has reassured Members of Parliament (MPs) regarding the disbursement of funds ...

Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan demonstrated last week that ordinary citizens in the so called Jumuiya Ya AfriKa ...

With Chadema having declared that it will not participate in the upcoming polls unless electoral reforms are enacted, ...

The detention and deportation of Kenyan and Ugandan activists has once again laid bare the hostility regional leaders have against civil society. Key human rights defenders and lawyers were barred ...

East Africa citizens have become a pawn in the game of power politics, where military has moved from its barracks and is ...

The country’s fifth president, John Pombe Magufuli (2015–2021), unleashed oppression on a national scale. Now, his successor, ...