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A follow up committee that supervised the project presented its end-of-mandate report to stakeholders yesterday.
Three years after asking Senegal to prosecute the former dictator of Chad, Hissène Habré, the African Union should ensure that the trial finally begins to move forward, eight African and international human rights groups said today. African heads of state will come together in Sirte, Libya on July 1, 2009, for an AU summit.
The African Union should urge the United Nations Security Council to set up a commission of inquiry to document the worst human rights abuses in Somalia, an essential first step in creating justice and accountability, Human Rights Watch said in a letter released today. The letter was sent in advance of the AU Summit meeting in Sirte, Libya on July 1-3, 2009.
As part of a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) programme, the first group of refugees has left Chad to begin new lives in the United States.
Nearly two hundred thousand local people fled their homes when armed militias began to devastate eastern Chad in late 2005. Now, as conditions improve, some are trying to return home. Many find their land has been seized. Others are forced to join one of the paramilitary groups that still roam the countryside. Some face death. "Many of those people who attacked us are still there," one of the ...
Members of armed paramilitary groups are a serious threat to civilians who fled violence and insecurity and are now returning to their villages, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. People who have returned to their home regions have been killed, forcibly recruited into paramilitary groups, and threatened with death by armed men who in many cases have seized their land.
