[allAfrica] Harare -- On Wednesday, November 29, 2023, a regional court reportedly dismissed a legal challenge to a multibillion-dollar oil pipeline project between Tanzania and Uganda, which has drawn criticism from human rights and environmental organisations.

[allAfrica] Harare -- The European Union cancelled its election monitoring mission for the general elections scheduled for December 20 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, due to security concerns, Reuters reports.

[allAfrica] Harare -- The Constitutional Court scheduled December 11, 2023 as the date to start hearing four petitions opposing the validity of the Anti-Homosexuality Law 2023, Daily Monitor reports.

[allAfrica] Harare -- Abir Moussi, a prominent adversary of Tunisian President Kais Saied, began a hunger strike in prison on Tuesday, November 28, in protest of what her attorneys claims is an infringement on her freedom of speech and political participation, Reuters reports.

[Observer] Human Rights Watch has expressed serious concerns regarding Uganda's new "Intelligent Transport Monitoring System," a surveillance system that tracks the real-time location of all vehicles in the country.

[Daily Trust] CCTV good for security, not sure on sexual harassment - Don President assenting to Anti-Sexual Harassment Bill will curb the tide - GMI

[Daily Maverick] The injunction by President Cyril Ramaphosa that South Africans must be more like the Chinese -- 'never badmouth your country' -- and his claim that public criticism of his government is severely 'lopsided' may be revealing as to his state of mind/understanding of the current political flows. It suggests that he has no concept of how difficult the lives of people are. Only someone who lives in the warm, expensive embrace of the VIP Protection Unit could make such an ignorant claim.

[Nile Post] Uganda's Human Rights Defenders, united under the National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders, have appealed to the Parliament to prioritise the passage of the Human Rights Defenders Protection Bill.

[AI London] African leaders attending this year's Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the UNFCCC must avoid mistakes made during the inaugural Africa Climate Summit, where leaders adopted the Nairobi Declaration on Climate Change and Call to Action (Nairobi Declaration), which in many ways failed to effectively prioritize human rights and climate justice for the continent, Amnesty International said today.

[Ethiopian Herald] - Gov't calls women to take lead in advocacy

[UN News] The United Nations and the African Union have reinforced their partnership following the conclusion of their seventh high-level dialogue in New York on Tuesday.

[allAfrica] Harare -- A failed coup attempt was the reason behind a series of attacks on military facilities and prisons over the weekend, according to government and police sources in Sierra Leone, Al Jazeera reports.

[Daily News] Dodoma -- WORKERS with disabilities are finalizing some legal procedures to establish their trade union.

[Daily News] Zanzibar -- Two Zanzibar Ministers, Lela Mohamed Mussa (Education and Vocational Training), and Riziki Pembe Juma (Social Development, Elders, Gender, and Children) have teamed up to raise their voices on the need for concerted efforts to curb abuse of children in the country.

[Daily Maverick] While calls for change to our politics have become a constant in our national conversation, there are many people who want to alter the entire system. There are now regular calls for South Africa to 'change our Constitution'. This appears to be a cry for help, based on the lived experiences of people who are suffering in our current situation. But, while many may believe there should be some change, real change to our Constitution is actually becoming less likely, despite the heat around it.

[GroundUp] "Jesus believed in justice, equality, truth, gentleness and mercy" says Alan Storey

[Nile Post] Police of West Nile has raised concern about the prevalence of teenage pregnancies in the region urging different stakeholders to come up with a multi-sectoral approach to prevent such occurrences especially during this long school holiday.

[Global Witness] Brussels, November 28 - The European Commission today opened the door to subsidies for a pipeline to transport blue hydrogen from Norway to Germany, which lead to more fossil gas being burned per year than Denmark, Ireland and Portugal's combined annual consumption of gas.

[GroundUp] Residents of Cloetesville flats say they keep asking for repairs to be done

[ISS] Combining parenting programmes with social grants works better against various types of violence than when used alone.