Disability News & Opportunities Across Africa. Covering jobs, grants, advocacy, inclusion, health, education, and programs for persons with disabilities across all 54 African nations.
Treaties, legal frameworks, government policies
Ghana has taken a major step in the fight against violence against women and girls by ratifying the African Union Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls (AUCEVAWG). The development makes Ghana only the second African Union member state, after The Gambia, to ratify the landmark continental convention. Ghana’s Parliament approved the ratification by…
Kenya Disability Act implementation has become one of the most important disability policy discussions in East Africa. While Kenya has made significant progress in strengthening legal protections for persons with disabilities, implementation remains the true measure of success. Laws can establish rights, but only effective implementation ensures those rights are experienced in schools, workplaces, hospitals,…
Climate change disability Africa is rapidly becoming a major crisis affecting millions of people across the continent. As climate impacts intensify, persons with disabilities face greater risks due to systemic exclusion from emergency systems and climate policies. Climate change disability Africa is not just an environmental issue—it is a human rights and inclusion issue that…
African Disability Protocol implementation has become the defining issue for disability rights across the continent in 2026. While many countries have ratified the treaty, the real challenge now lies in turning commitments into measurable outcomes. Across Africa, governments are facing increasing pressure to move beyond promises and begin enforcing disability rights in practical, visible ways….
At a media roundtable held in Abuja on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, disability rights advocates in Nigeria did something that does not happen often enough in African policy spaces: they sat down with journalists, opened the government’s own commitments document, and went through it line by line, pointing out what had been promised, what deadline…
Kenya passed one of the most progressive disability laws on the African continent in May 2025. It was celebrated. It was described as transformative. International development partners called it a turning point. And then, as so often happens in the space between the signing of a law and its implementation, the celebration faded and the…
A landmark disability rights policy workshop hosted by the Gauteng Provincial Government in February 2026 ended with a powerful call: South Africa needs a legally enforceable National Disability Act. Here’s what happened and why it matters.
Introduction Today, 21 March 2026, South Africa marks Human Rights Day — a day to reflect on the rights enshrined in the Constitution and to take honest stock of where those rights remain out of reach. This year, the South African Federation for Mental Health (SAFMH) and Cape Mental Health are shining a powerful spotlight…
Tanzania, with a population of over 60 million people across the mainland and Zanzibar, is East Africa’s most geographically expansive country. Its disability community is represented primarily by the Tanzania Federation of Disabled People’s Organisations, known as SHIVYAWATU, which coordinates advocacy and policy engagement across the country’s diverse regions and its unique mainland-island political structure….
Ethiopia is Africa’s second most populous country, home to over 120 million people. With an estimated disability prevalence of around six percent, that translates to more than seven million Ethiopians living with disabilities — a population larger than the entire population of many African countries. The scale of the inclusion challenge in Ethiopia is enormous….
