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Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tanzania was backsliding under Magufuli administration

A Tanzanian court has upheld a ruling banning the marriage of girls under the age of 18 and won praise from rights activists.

Rights group, NGO-GCN said that some police officers took advantage of the chaos to sexually assault women

The country voted in general polls on Tuesday after a campaign marked by violence and claims of electoral fraud

Mozambique began voting in a general election on Tuesday that some fear could test the country’s fragile peace, after a heated campaign marred by violence and allegations of electoral fraud.

The gas deposits could turn Mozambique into one of the world’s biggest exporters of liquefied natural gas

Rwanda announced on Tuesday that a controversial American missionary, who was arrested for calling an illegal public meeting with journalists, has been deported.

The attack, in which 14 civilians were killed, took place near the Volcanoes National Park, which is famous for its mountain gorilla sanctuary

The last elections in December 2014 led to a coalition between Lepep (The People) and Jugnauth’s Socialist Militant Movement (MSM)

600 Burundians who fled political violence in their home country to Tanzania, were on Thursday repatriated