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Africa: Conflicts and Violence Threaten Rights in Africa
HRW, 12 January 2023
African leaders failed to tackle widespread abuses against civilians by state security forces and non-state armed groups and insufficiently prioritized justice efforts for victims… Read more »
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Africa: Africa's Approach to Countering Terrorism Still Misses the Mark
ISS, 11 January 2023
After two decades of violent extremism, fundamental elements in preventing the threat remain absent from AU plans. Read more »
Human Rights Report Slams African Leaders' Defence of Citizens
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said in its World Report 2023 that African leaders failed to tackle widespread abuses against civilians by state security forces and non-state armed groups and insufficiently prioritized justice for victims of atrocities across the continent.
The report reveals that government forces or non-state armed groups have been implicated in abuses against civilians in at least 15 armed conflicts, including in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Mali, Burkina Faso, and South Sudan.
This comes after the Institute for Security Studies questioned whether Africa's leaders have the sustained political will to take bold decisions, implement existing frameworks and pursue long-term solutions to address two decades of violent extremism across the continent.
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Justice is slowly catching up with those who abused or collaborated with abusers of human rights during the rule of Gambia's former president Yahya Jammeh. The International ... Read more »
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The Chairperson of the Uganda Human Rights Commission Mariam Wangadya - in a speech during the celebration of the International Human Rights day - said the her committee is ... Read more »
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Human Rights Watch has accused soldiers of summarily killing at least 10 people and carrying out a series of other abuses between April 24 and June 12, 2022, during ... Read more »
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Former chief justice David Maraga has been sworn in as Chairperson of the task force mandated to oversee the implementation of reforms in the National Police Service and the Read more »
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For the past two years, the people of Uganda's Karamoja region have not been able to grow enough food because violence that had ended with a government-led disarmament more than 15 ... Read more »
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Human rights groups have expressed concern over escalating cases of politically-motivated violence against villagers aligned to opposition parties ahead of the 2023 general e Read more »
An eight-year-old girl living in a rescue centre for girls who have fled forced marriage and female genital mutilation (file photo).
