Boniface Mwangi and Agather Atuhaire recount harrowing ordeal at hands of Tanzanian authorities. Video by Benard Orwongo.

Today #Tanzania is trending in East Africa and Africa for gross violations of human rights under Samia Suluhu That is why we want to #ChangeTanzania Get rid of “liberation” party CCM that has turned into black colonizers and ruthless opppressors club We need the world to shun

They were a few miles from safety. Then the RSF stopped them. According to the army, graves "containing the bodies of 465 people who died due to neglect, lack of food, treatment, and medicine" have been discovered, including ones holding up to 27 people." middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-cro…

Agather Atuhaire: Uganda, we are being ruled by a dictator, but when I arrived in Tanzania, Museveni was like Angel Gabriel. Tanzania is the only country where lawyers are being ordered around like children. Boniface Mwangi and I were abducted by thugs inside a police station.

A Kenyan and a Ugandan human rights activist who were detained in Tanzania for several days last month said on Monday that Tanzanian security officers sexually assaulted them while in custody. reuters.com/world/africa/k…

"In #Syria’s fragile transition there’s a glimmer of a more stable #MiddleEast" My new piece for Atlantic Council: atlanticcouncil.org/content-series…

Among other violations of human rights, we are receiving and taking note of credible reports of horrific sexual abuse in Tanzania.

#Tanzania 56 days of arbitrary detention! Clearly this political trial is baseless and it aims to keep Tundu Antiphas Lissu illegally detained during election season! What he is demanding is electoral reforms through #NoReformsNoElection - but Samia Suluhu is scared of competition

France 24 reports on the abduction of Alawite girls and women on the coast of #Syria. Human rights groups warn of a growing pattern of targeted violence, with many women disappearing or be murdered. The report questions the control of Ahmed al-Sharaa over militias and soldier

‼️READ THIS 👇🏾‼️ This is what I was telling y’all yesterday about Samia Suluhu setting up a militia 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 QUEEN OF QUIET TERROR ? Inside President Samia Suluhu’s Shadow Force Striking Fear Across Tanzania Ahead of Elections intelligenceinsider.africa/great-lakes-br…

NEW -- the month of May 2025 was the least violent in #Syria since #Assad's fall 7 months ago. BUT, #Israel resumed airstrikes over the past week & #ISIS continues to display concerning signs of recovery. Data & analysis -- syriaweekly.com/p/weekly-data-…

In case you missed my piece in yesterday’s Standard newspaper, here it is - standardmedia.co.ke/author/4880/hu… Read about the torture dungeons of Tanzania and why torture must be punished.

This headline by The Standard should be displayed on all billboards in all cities across Kenya. #JusticeForAlbertOjwang

In Tanzania, the stage is being cleared. Opposition voices are silenced, rallies banned, leaders jailed. As 2025 nears, it’s not an election being prepared—it’s a performance, and only one actor is allowed to speak.

Formally integrating foreign fighters into Syria's new army is viewed as a pragmatic political move, but one which alarms many in Syrian society From rebels to soldiers: Foreign fighters in Syria's new army ⬇️ ✍️ Robert Bociaga newarab.com/analysis/rebel…

Andrea Ghiselli, Head of Research at #ChinaMed, offers his insights in this article by Robert Bociaga for The New Arab on how China may respond to the Syria interim government's decision to formally integrate Uyghur foreign fighters. newarab.com/analysis/rebel…

Extraordinary reporting by Tamara Qiblawi تمارا قبلاوي - tqiblawi.bsky.social and a team of reporters who tie a top #Syria commander in the new government tp trafficking and raping Syrian women. In this case, Kurdish women. It is extremely hard to get evidence like this. Today, most #Alawite abducted women are too

Tanzania: UN Experts alarmed by pattern of enforced disappearance and torture to silence opposition and critics Thank you UN Human Rights Council UN Human Rights UN Human Rights EARO 😭🙏🏽 ohchr.org/en/press-relea… Mwambieni Samia Suluhu dunia imeona anachofanya na madhulmat - hatutakubali kunyamazishwa!

NEW - #Syria President Ahmed al-Sharaa declares mourning for the “martyrs” killed by an #ISIS suicide bomber at St Elias Church in #Damascus’ western outskirts today. 21 confirmed killed & 52 injured — after 12 #ISIS plots had been foiled by #Syria’s gov’t in 2025.

As an Islamic State suicide bombing targets a Damascus church, read Robert Bociaga's in-depth The New Arab piece for background on the threat they still pose ⬇️ newarab.com/analysis/why-i…