Human rights

Tigray Province has been at war since early November. More than three million people need help and victims of serious human rights violations. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been silent for more than three months. He ended up acknowledging in part the humanitarian catastrophe caused by his intervention, but did not take responsibility for it.…

Wanted by justice to explain his involvement in the Chebeya affair, former Congolese police chief John Numbi has fled abroad and is now under arrest warrant. NGOs are asking the Congolese government for his extradition to Kinshasa following his flight from the DRC. as reported from Kinshasa,Kamanda Wa Kamanda MuzembeHe was…

Congo-Brazzaville has been led for almost 37 years by Denis Sassou-Nguesso, who is seeking a new presidential mandate tomorrow, Sunday 21 March. He will face six other candidates, including two former ministers, Mathias Dzon and Brice Parfait Kolélas. On the eve of this presidential election, FIDH and its Congolese partner, OCHD, say they are "deeply" concerned about the "deterioration of the democratic…

In Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina has announced that he will no longer appear before the judges. At the sixth hearing of his trial, on Friday 12 March, the opponent considered that he did not benefit from a fair trial and therefore refused to continue to participate. Once again, the Court rejected the objections raised by Paul Rusesabagina's lawyers. They had requested another six months to prepare his defense and investigate this file, according to them, particularly complicated, given that the opponent appears along with…

In Uganda, strong mobilization on social networks after the arrest on Tuesday of lawyer and human rights activist Nicholas Opiyo, as well as four other lawyers, all suspected of money laundering. The five men remain in police custody and many human rights defenders demand their release. with our correspondent in Kampala, Lucie…

The journalist died in custody in August 2019. Cameroonian authorities deny any act of torture. "The results of the inquest into the custody of the Cameroonian journalist Samuel Wazizi must be made public. This is the cry from the heart of two human rights organizations, Acat-France and Reporters Without Borders.Samuel Wazizi…

A Guinean opponent, detained since September in Conakry, died Wednesday night through Thursday, December 17. Roger Bamba, in his forties, was a member of the communications cell and youth leader of the Union for Democratic Forces in Guinea (UFDG), the largest opposition party, led by Cellou Dalein Diallo. He died a few hours after being transferred to the hospital in the capital. He was arrested after…

During the launch of the "10 days to sign" campaign, Amnesty International this year highlights the case of Germain Rukuki, a human rights activist in Burundi who was arrested in July 2017.

In Côte d'Ivoire, a sign of the still tense political climate, the government extended the ordinance banning demonstrations on public roads until 30 November. If the meeting on November 11 between Alassane Ouattara and Henri Konan Bedié made it possible to lower tensions slightly, nothing has been resolved. Many opposition leaders are still being detained and their parties in particular are demanding…

In Chad, a few days ago, we told about the discovery of the Chadian Convention for the Defense of Human Rights by a secret prison of the National Security Agency. CTDDH condemns a real death. The government talks about dungeons where prisoners are treated "very well". RFI found five former residents of this detention center, two of whom agreed to testify with their faces exposed.…