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A year ago, more than 80 human rights and press organizations signed a petition calling on several African presidents to release journalists in overcrowded prisons whose prisoners are often exposed to Covid 19. The Cameroon Committee to Protect Journalists. (CPJ) restarts President Paul Biya. One year after this appeal, the…

Human Rights Watch has published a new report in which it points out that at least eight bloggers who mainly broadcast their production via the Youtube platform have been threatened, arrested or even prosecuted for a year. A poet has also been missing since February last year after being critical. The American NGO Human Rights…

The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission is also investigating crimes and atrocities committed in the province of Tigray. After months of silence, she admits in a report that more than 100 people were massacred in the city of Aksum, which validated the investigations from other organizations such as Amnesty International. The late announcement of the Ethiopian report on human rights in the middle of the night is not due to chance; the time was calculated only hours later Abiy Ahmed's long speech. The prime minister…

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 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 National Human Rights Commission was able to visit secret prisons in Chad, the existence of which was condemned a few weeks ago by a human rights organization. as reported from N'Djamena, Madjiasra NakoThe mission of the National Human Rights Commission indicates that he has visited two prisons of the National Security…

In a report printed on Wednesday, the NGO's Human Proper Watch condemns the extent of violence after the election in Côte d'Ivoire and asks the authorities to analyze the deaths of about 50 individuals. In accordance with HRW, at the least 50 individuals have misplaced their lives in gatherings and / or violence. HRW analyzes…

The African Court docket of Human Rights and Peoples' Rights has been seized by a Beninese citizen whose identify has not been revealed on Friday, a really important verdict for the authorities in Porto Novo, provided that the structure revised by Parliament in November 2019 ought to be repealed. ACHPR accuses the authorities of getting "violated the beliefs of the 1990 structure" and orders a return to…

Scandal in Senegal after the arrest, between 26 and 28 November, of forty people in "recovery centers" in the marabout SerigneModou Kara Mbacké, religious leader of the Brotherhood of Mourides, and also a political personality. According to the gendarmerie, young people were victims of "kidnapping, assault, even torture" in these centers in Dakar and its suburbs. An investigation is underway.…

The Chadian Convention for the Protection of Human Rights has been investigating for years the existence of "secret prisons" of the National Security Agency (ANS). The organization claims to have already discovered ten of these houses. Most recently, a most banal house located in the 2nd arrondissement on the road to Farcha, opposite a large ministry (public works and infrastructure). CTDDH condemns a…