Category: Africa
According to the UN during attacks on civilians on August 8 in the Gao region of Mali, at least 50 civilians were killed and several injured. The Human Rights Agency denounces the barbaric attacks perpetrated ...
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) is an autonomous treaty body of the African Union, and formed by Commissioners under Article 31 of the African Charter, elected by the Assembly of Heads ...
People of African descent twice as likely to die from Covid-19, according to the UN. “People of African descent suffer unacceptable violence, including from the police. They rely on often inadequate basic infrastructure services; disproportionately ...
10 years after South Sudan’s independence, more children in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. The country’s infant mortality rate is among the highest in the world, with 1 in 10 children. A record 4.5 million children ...
According to the UN and the World Food Program (WFP), 5.2 million Ethiopians, or 91% of the population of Tigray, are in need of emergency food assistance. Five days after the capture of the regional ...
Inter-communal violence and repeated attacks over the past six months by groups such as the Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) and the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS), have claimed many civilian lives. ...
Africa is one of the world’s regions in which foreign investors have had significant impacts, including the neglect of human rights and the support of corruption. Various African resources, including oil and minerals are mostly ...
The Human Rights Agency calls on all governments to include internally displaced, refugee and migrant children in national systems, policies and plans. To fight against all stigma and discrimination, children and young people must be ...
Nine months after the last coup in Mali, the military arrested the Transitional President, Bah N’Daw, and his Prime Minister, Moctar Ouane, and some of their collaborators. The two leaders were brought Monday evening to ...
According to a NORC survey conducted by the University of Chicago in 2018-2019, nearly 800,000 children work in cocoa, compared to 1.2 million according to a previous study by the American University of Tulane in ...
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