In a damning report, human rights group Amnesty International has denounced a fundamental lack of accountability within Guinea’s security forces over the last year. A brutal repression of anti-government protests occurred between October 2019 and July 2020, as Guinean civilians took to the streets in opposition to Alpha Conde, the
The issue of vigilantism and electoral violence in Ghana continues to be at the forefront of Ghanaian political discourse. Most recently, Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketiah (General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress) implored President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to seek justice for Silas Wulo Chameh, the teacher trainee graduate who
In Burkina Faso, recent reports released by national authorities have highlighted a surge in the number of people displaced from their homes in the last year. In total, a combination of a changing climate and escalating violence amid COVID-19 has seen a record one million Burkinabé internally displaced over the
Civilians in South Africa and Nigeria have met rises in gender-based violence during the COVID-19 lockdown with waves of indignation and fury. In recent weeks, South Africa has experienced a series of deeply disturbing femicides, thrusting the issue into the public spotlight and leading to the hashtag #StopKillingWomen trending on
After an inflammation of tensions and protests in Mali, the nation’s neighbours have at last decided to intervene. West African leaders have come together to call for unity government in a bid to ease the country’s deepening political crisis. This call has been accompanied by a whispered threat: those that
A sequence of climate change and conflict is having an increasingly devastating effect on the livelihoods and security of innocent civilians living around the Lake Chad Basin. This region’s fragile state of living has been further exacerbated by the impact of preventative measures taken against COVID-19. Some commentators have described
A protest organised by what is becoming known as the “June 5th movement” in the Malian capital of Bamako has seen at least four people killed and twenty others wounded. In response to the protest, Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has now dissolved the country’s constitutional court. The movement, with
A protest organized by what is becoming known as the “June 5th movement” in the Malian capital of Bamako has seen at least four people killed and twenty others wounded. And, in response to this instability and protest, Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has now dissolved the country’s constitutional court.
The shocking shooting of the singer Hachalu Hundessa in Addis Ababa early last week has since sparked widespread violence across the country’s Oromia region. Addis Ababa police have revealed a number of suspects have been detained on suspicion of murdering Hundessa, a singer known for making political commentaries through his
The number of violent attacks directed by armed groups towards innocent and displaced civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has soared in recent weeks. The unstable and insecure situation many Congolese people face has forced mass movement, with over 5 million civilians uprooted from their homes.
The gruesome murders of women witnessed by South Africa in the last few weeks has acted as a disturbing signal of the gender-based violence plaguing this country. South Africa has experienced a surge in rapes and killings of women with three high-profile cases sparking campaigns on Twitter. The first was Tshegofatso Pule.
The escalating violence in Africa’s Sahel region is beginning to have widespread consequences. Thousands of civilians, targeted by both terrorist organisations as well as military forces, have been forced to flee from their local communities for safety. The Sahel conflict is quickly becoming one of largest displacement crises in the
In South Sudan, political gridlock, division, and intercommunal violence have raised fears that the country’s once hopeful peace deal of 2018 is at risk of unravelling. The rising level of violence has sparked international concern and is tightly connected to the intransigence of the coalition’s respective political parties. In a
Xenophobia has long been a dark sub-chapter of the post-apartheid South African story. This discrimination, directed by Black South African nationals towards Black African immigrants, has been a constant struggle in the “New” South Africa. Indeed, it was the xenophobic riots of 2008, 2015, and 2019 that constituted the most
Diplomatic relations between Ethiopia and Sudan have become further inflamed after a deadly clash between armed forces along their common border last Thursday. Sudan responded by summoning the Ethiopian embassy’s charge d’affaires, as their army spokesperson General Amer Mohamed al-Hassan announced that “we decided to give a chance for diplomacy
Tortured Members of the Zimbabwean Opposition now face Charges Three members of the Zimbabwean opposition who have described suffering torture at the hands of state forces have now been charged with promoting public violence and ignoring coronavirus lockdown regulations. The charges relate to their organisation of a protest on 13th
Some of the survivors from a harrowing migrant journey that departed the Tete Province of Mozambique for South Africa have recalled their experiences for the first time. The truck transporting the migrants was discovered by police on the Malawi-Mozambique border on March 24. Only 14 people were rescued alive, as
At least 20 innocent civilians have been killed in a series of attacks across at least three different villages in Western Niger on Sunday evening. The raids were carried out by unidentified gunmen in the Tillaberi region of the country. The local governor, Tidjani Ibrahim Katiella, informed the national radio station
The level of international scrutiny towards Kenya’s COVID-19 response has increased in the last week. This is chiefly due to a recent Human Rights watch report establishing at least six people died due to excessive police force in the first 10 days of the curfew. Kenya’s central government have done
In the last week, a complex and violent conflict developing in the northern Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique has caught international attention. On one side, the shadowy armed Islamist group coordinating attacks on the region since October 2017 has become increasingly emboldened. Meanwhile, on the other, international rights groups and media have
