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This follows comments by Tanzanian MPs during a budget debate on Monday, where they accused Kenya of meddling with Tanzanian affairs.
MPs said the government’s actions as necessary and said Tanzania was acting within its rights to protect its national interests.
Atuhaire said she was blindfolded, beaten, violently stripped, and sexually assaulted by individuals in plain clothes who detained her.
The civil society groups described these acts as “crimes against humanity and a betrayal of the democratic values our people have long fought for.”
Mudavadi urged Kenyans to understand the broader context, stressing that Kenya’s prosperity depends on building bridges with its neighbours rather tha...
MUHURI expressed concern on prevalent human rights abuses including Gender-Based Violence (GBV), forced disappearances, marginalisation and underdevel...
Addressing journalists at Moi International Airport in Mombasa on Thursday, Mwangi said he was tortured so severely that he could barely walk.
The activist’s detention had sparked widespread outrage, seen by many as an arbitrary move that violated both bilateral and international norms.
The Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs urged Tanzania to "expeditiously and without delay facilitate consular access to or release of Mwangi."
Maraga said Mwangi has been detained without access to a lawyer, the courts or Kenyan consular officials, which goes against international human right...
Khelef wants to establish whether the requisite public participation was conducted in line with the inclusivity, good governance, integrity, transpare...
Mwangi was arrested on Monday, May 19, 2025, in Dar es Salaam, alongside Ugandan activist Agather Atuhaire after they flew to Tanzania to attend a cou...
Tanzania’s Minister for Constitutional Affairs and Justice, Damas Ndumbaro said Karua, two others were deported to protect the integrity of the legal...
Mudavadi said the president’s remarks came from observing the recent behaviour of some Kenyans.
Internet watchdog group NetBlocks confirmed the development, saying that the platform had become unreachable on all major internet providers across Ta...
The human rights advocates, including Hussein Khalid of Vocal Africa, Njeri Mwangi — Boniface Mwangi’s wife — and protest musician Julius Owino, conde...
Those shortlisted were selected from a total of 17 applicants.
The three had travelled to Tanzania in solidarity with opposition CHADEMA party leader Tundu Lissu, ahead of his trial.
Currently, thousands of crime victims risk being left without essential support as the Victims Protection Board grapples with a critical funding short...
NUP President Robert 'Bobi Wine' Kyaluganyi revealed that the party raised their concerns about gross human rights violations with the representatives...
Local human rights organisations submitted that, despite the largely peaceful nature of the protests, there were credible allegations of excessive and...
The majority of the attacks occurred in Mandera, Garissa, Lamu, and Wajir counties, with Mandera recording the highest number of incidents and fatalit...
Worryingly, attacks based on ethnicity are returning in parts of Darfur, echoing the horrors of the 2003 conflict that also left tens of thousands dea...
Bakeries have shut down due to the absence of flour and gas, food prices are surging, and social order is unravelling as people fight for what little...
High-profile tragedies such as the brutal murder of Olympic runner Agnes Tirop and the targeted killing of non-binary activist Sheila Lumumba are embl...
The coalition condemned the government’s approach to housing, accusing it of demolishing homes without compensation under the affordable housing plan....
The move comes nearly three months after the death of the Commission’s former Chairperson, Roseline Odhiambo Odede, who died in January after a short...
LSK Chair Faith Odhiambo eulogised Nowrojee as a man of irrefutable poise and honourable character, whose life exemplified duty to service and dedicat...
In a press statement, Otsieno Nyamwaya, the associate director of HRW Africa, said volunteers had claimed that police officers had threatened them and...
They are additionally subjected to extreme forms of violence that include killings, abductions, mutilations and infanticide.
