Honorable Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, Honorable Members of the Commission, State ...

The Rwandan authorities are committing serious human rights violations in detention centres, notably by torturing detainees, the NGO Human Rights Watch warned on Tuesday, denouncing the impunity ...

senior Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch. “The landmark trial of prison officials provides an important first step toward accountability, but a more comprehensive response is necessary to ...

Ndamei, 15 at the time, was one among 2.8 million children in West and Central Africa whose education was put on hold by ...

Armed jihadist groups in Burkina Faso have stepped up their attacks on civilians in recent months, "massacring villagers, displaced people, and Christian worshippers", Human Rights Watch said on ...

It could be easy to overlook the dangers of tensions rising again in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy ...

“The Tanzanian authorities have shown increasing intolerance for free speech by clamping down on their critics and the political opposition,” said HRW senior Africa researcher Oryem Nyeko. “The ...

“Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia have been targets of abuses for more than a year from various armed actors,” said Laetitia Bader, deputy Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “These refugees have fled ...

South Africa is a middle-income emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; and a stock exchange ...