Disability news and resources in Africa
This page lists the countries in Africa with resources and recent highlights.
Countries
- Africa
- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Chad
- Congo-Brazzaville
- Congo-Kinshasa
- Djibouti
- East Africa
- Egypt
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Ivory Coast
- Kenya
- Lesohto
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- West Africa
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Recent Highlights
In Africa:
This is war Fighting back against the violence faced by people with albinism:
‘We are fighting against extreme forms of exclusion and discrimination. “War” is the most apt description where one is being hunted and killed simply for having the genetic condition of albinism. I understand that this is strong language, but I see myself as a frontline soldier. The main weapons on our side of this unconventional warfare are the human rights frameworks, combined with strategic advocacy, doggedness, and integrity.’ (2025, Disability Debrief)
The African Disability Protocol: Enhancing Disability Rights Protection in Africa. Article explores how the protocol tackles issues not in the UN Convention. (2024, African Law Matters)
In East Africa:
Finances of people with disabilities are worse in the Balkans and Baltics. “People with disabilities are more likely to struggle making ends meet than those without disabilities”:
“However, fewer people are suffering economically in Luxembourg (8%), Germany (11%), the Netherlands (11.2%), or Finland (13.2%). By contrast, in Greece (75.5%) and Bulgaria (52%), more than half of people with a disability live in households that have difficulties in making ends meet.” (2025, Euronews)
In Kenya:
What Happened to USP-Kenya? The Challenge of Sustaining an Organisation Through Rapid Growth:
“Growth can be exciting, but it needs to be intentional and supported by investment in people, shared leadership, organisational systems, and a broader funding base. Structures that distribute power, clarify responsibility, and enable accountability are essential to sustaining movement work. Administrative and governance systems also matter because they help an organisation care for its people and protect what they have built. Boards need the capacity to provide direction and oversight, while knowledge, relationships, and responsibility need to be shared so that the work can continue through funding losses, leadership changes, illness, or periods of distress.” (Aug, Mad Thinking)
Kenya’s troubled 60-year mental health journey from colonial institutions and laws to those making change today. (2023, The Nation)
In Malawi:
Raising Local Voices: Caroline Kamulaga and her journey from in education after losing her sight. (2025, Inclusive Development Partners)
In Nigeria:
You can’t pick palm nuts without your hands getting oily: Coming to terms with the liberation and flaws of Deaf community in Nigeria. (Feb, Disability Debrief)
Situational Analysis on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Nigeria. (2025, Global Disability Fund)
Schisms in the Church A Debrief feature on the disconnect faced by deaf worshippers in Nigeria:
“This piece explores the challenges of deaf persons in the church. It draws from my own life and the experiences of other deaf folks, most of them close friends and acquaintances I met within the deaf community. We often talk about what causes our disconnection in church. We are treated as after-thoughts, objects of charity, sub-par humans, or needing healing. But we know we are much more.” (2024, Disability Debrief)
Girls with Disability Suffer, Rejected in Lagos Special Schools a detailed look at a lack of accessible and hygienic toilets and hygiene facilities. (2024, This Day)
In Rwanda:
Where traditional perceptions meet global views. Evolving attitudes to disability in Rwanda, from precolonial times to today:
“International efforts on disability inclusion in Rwanda have too often ignored our indigenous traditions. Like in other African countries, treatment of community members with disabilities is an intertwined outcome of inherent social beliefs, practices of the colonial era, and the right-based models championed by activists in disability movements that came out of our newly-inclusive schools.” (Sep, Disability Debrief)
In Sudan:
How the war in Sudan has cast its shadow on people with disabilities. (In Arabic, 2024, AlJazeera)
In Tanzania:
Roots of belonging: Lost in a culture that believes something is wrong with us:
“I live with mental health challenges and I too have lived through some of these harsh cultural practices. Nobody in my school knows I share this reality with my students.” (Feb, Disability Debrief)
Landmark judgment on rights of persons with albinism delivered by African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights:
“The African Court judgment is a timely message to other African states to fight against harmful cultural beliefs and practices, endured by persons with albinism for several decades without redress and hold perpetrators accountable. Notably, Tanzania has the highest population of persons with albinism globally. This landmark judgment sets a precedent on which to base enforcement and protection of the rights of persons with albinism in other parts of Africa and globally.” (2025, Centre for Human Rights)
Child's father, Priest among nine arrested in murder of girl with albinism. Two-year old Asimwe Novath was abducted at the end of May and her body was found a bit over two weeks later. (2024, The Citizen) See more about the search.