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December 5, 2019

Zambia
Standing Up for Human Rights in Zambia

Last week, when U.S. Ambassador to Zambia Daniel Foote expressed his dismay about a Zambian court ruling sentencing two men to fifteen years in prison for the crime of conducting a same-sex relationship, Zambian President Edgar Lungu was quick to take offense.

Zambia's President Edgar Lungu attending a signing ceremony in Paris, France, February 8, 2016

May 1, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
Kidnapped Girls Galvanize Nigerian Public

The kidnapping of more than two hundred schools girls, and the security services’ inability to find and free them, appears to have engaged Nigerian opinion nationwide, far more so than any other atro…

Kidnapping

October 14, 2016

Israel
Who Supported the Shameful UNESCO Vote on Jerusalem?

There is little to be added to the scorn rightfully shown in the United States and in Israel (which has cut all ties to UNESCO) toward the UNESCO vote this week that in essence wipes out Jewish and C…

January 27, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
Is There Harassment of Muslims in Nigeria’s South?

The Nigerian media is reporting that the Rivers State police command arrested 320 people to investigate allegations that they were Boko Haram members. “Boko Haram” is the government and media label f…

A police officer keeps watch during a protest against the elimination of a popular fuel subsidy that has doubled the price of petrol, in Nigeria's capital Abuja January 9, 2012.