GBV Observatory · country source map
Updated 11 October 2026. This map records sources and their limits, not a certification of every article or dataset. Publication dates belong to individual records; the access review date below is 11 October unless otherwise stated. Sources are checked for original reporting, copied statements, date definitions and privacy risks.
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The first table lists sources already used or directly reviewed in Observatory work. A country appearing here does not mean its coverage is complete, or stronger than another country’s.
Several outlets may trace back to the same police, court or institutional statement; when they do, they remain one source lineage rather than several independent confirmations. The later Sources still being checked table is a discovery queue: those sources may be useful, but their presence there does not mean their material has been accepted into case totals.
| Country | Publisher / source | Language, type and geographic scope | Update frequency / access | Originality and limitations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | Cameroon Tribune justice/police reporting | French; state-linked national press; police cases | Event-driven; opened | Names judicial-police officer and investigative action; still journalism, not court record. |
| Nigeria | Punch metro | English; national/local news | Event-driven; opened | Police-derived; copies using same statement are one lineage. |
| Ghana | Ghana News Agency court/crime | English; national news agency | Event-driven; pages opened | Carries official CID and local-authority statements; distinguish source status inside each article. |
| South Africa | SAPS newsroom | English; police releases; national/provincial | Daily/event-driven; opened | Primary for police action/allegation, not adjudication. Search interface supports direct release retrieval. |
| South Africa | NPA media | English; prosecution releases; national | Event-driven; opened | Primary for charges/sentences; incident date must be extracted because release date is often years later. |
| Kenya | The Star crime desk | English; national/local news | Event-driven; opened | Frequently police-derived; multi-incident articles require case separation. |
| Uganda | Daily Monitor and Nile Post | English; national/regional news | Event-driven; opened | Two outlets may repeat one police spokesperson and are not automatically independent. |
| Zambia | ICU TV and Lusaka Times | English; local/national media | Event-driven; opened | Named police spokesperson/commissioner in reviewed stories; seek Zambia Police original when available. |
| Namibia | Informanté | English; national/local news | Event-driven; partial browser challenge | Police/court-linked; not a substitute for charge sheet or postmortem. |
| Zimbabwe | ZRP-attributed Herald/NewZimbabwe feeds | English; national/local news | Event-driven; opened/indexed | Statements are closer than aggregation; original ZRP release still preferred. |
| Zimbabwe | News.co.zw | English; source-lineage aggregator | Continuous; opened | Useful for tracing origin; explicitly does not independently verify every report. Lead tool, not corroboration. |
| Senegal | SeneNews | French; national/local news | Event-driven; opened | Police-linked reports; direct police/prosecutor records not retrieved. |
| Morocco | Aujourd’hui le Maroc | French; national/local news | Event-driven; opened | Judicial-source attribution; direct prosecutor release still preferred. |
| Morocco | Télégraphe Arabic | Arabic; local/national news | Event-driven; opened | Reproduces a detailed police account; treat copies as one police lineage. |
| Zimbabwe | Pindula original, 7 October 2026 | English; local/national news; police-attributed reporting | Event-driven; full article retrieved 11 October | Origin behind News.co.zw; iHarare repeats that aggregator. These are not independent confirmations. |
| Namibia | NBC court report | English; national public broadcaster; court reporting | Event-driven; retrieved 11 October; page uses relative publication time | Separate court reporting on the same police case; procedural removal is not acquittal. |
| Namibia | The Namibian, 5 October 2026 | English; national/local news | Event-driven; article retrieved 11 October | Police-derived; conflicts with another report on exact death day; October month stable. |
A police or prosecution source is authoritative for its own action or allegation, not proof of guilt. Multiple copies of one statement remain one lineage. Official aggregates, service contacts, surveys and individually indexed events use different units and must remain separate. Social media is a lead source requiring corroboration.
Sources still being checked
Seeds identified 27 September 2026 and retained for continued checking. Access notes are historical; they do not claim a fresh successful retrieval or authorize addition of their aggregates to case totals.
| Country / scope | Source URL | Definition and access caution |
|---|---|---|
| Regional / national legal repositories | https://africanlii.org/en/ | AfricanLII; searchable discovery index; direct access previously blocked. Language and update frequency vary by national repository. |
| Zambia | https://zambialii.org/judgments/ | ZambiaLII; English judgments; event-driven; occurrence dates must be extracted separately from judgment dates. |
| Ghana | https://genderapp.statsghana.gov.gh/ | Ghana Statistical Service; English gender-statistics platform; previous direct access error. Verify measure, denominator and report period. |
| Senegal | https://www.ansd.sn/Indicateur/rapports-denquete-et-detudes-sur-le-genre | ANSD; French national survey/research reports; periodic; previous timeout. Survey estimates are not indexed case totals. |
| Morocco | https://onc.justice.gov.ma/fr/statistiques | Justice Ministry; Arabic/French criminal-statistics source; verify period and administrative definitions. |
| Morocco | https://social.gov.ma/observatoire-national-de-la-femme/ | National women’s observatory; Arabic/French institutional source; access and release frequency require recheck. |
| Cameroon | https://cameroon.unfpa.org/fr/publications/les-voix-du-cameroun-2024 | UNFPA/MINPROFF; French qualitative report published 29 December 2025; context, not prevalence or case totals. |
| Nigeria | https://justice.gov.ng/sexual-and-gender-based-violence-response-gender-unit/ | Federal Ministry of Justice; English SGBV unit; institutional monitoring lead, not a case-level dataset. |
| Uganda | https://upf.go.ug/annual-crime-report-2025/ | Uganda Police; English annual administrative crime report; 2025 data published 2 April 2026. Separate from current case index. |
| South Africa | https://www.saps.gov.za/services/crimestatssebenza.php | SAPS statistics; English administrative aggregates; verify underlying report period and unit, not just index labels. |
