UGANDA: Mr. Timothy Kalyegira, a renown Online editor accused of sedition. An international campaign is on for his acquittal.

Rwanda story - Group campaigning for release of detained US professor travels to D.C. for meetings with State Department, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and the United Nations.

A coup in Niger is the latest in a long line of military takeovers in Africa. The following is a list of the most recent

African People Should have the Right to Secede, if Enforced Unity is not Working.

Profiling African Dictators - Teodoro Obiang Nguema, President of Equatorial Guinea

Rwanda Citizens reflect on the genocide of 1994, and critically analyse the political and socio-economic dynamics post-genocide.

Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC President, leads Party team to Mozambique talks Friday 6 November 2009

The Committee to Protect Journalists continues with its superb job of speaking out on behalf of persecuted journalists and of promoting free speech.

And now, it is Niger - why do African governments never learn from history?

African Governments must scrap archaic and outdated laws, which hinder the development of the media and the spread of free speech. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is at the fore front of the campaign for media freedom. Senegal is one of the countries being targeted by the campaign.