Africa Watch is dedicated to covering news and analysis of developing events that concern human rights, international criminal law, and international humanitarian law in Africa.
The Africa Watch is dedicated to covering news and analysis of all matters that concern human rights and incidental concerns such as international criminal and humanitarian law. We collect and republish stories from across the content, as well as provide some legal analysis with two major goals:
Despite advancements made in the development of human rights in Africa, such as the entry into force of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and the subsequent creation of several African Judicial bodies such as the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and so on, human rights abuses continue unabated across the African continent.
We believe that one of the reasons for this is the fact that human rights situations from around the continent are seldom published in the mainstream media. We hope to act as an agent of change, helping to ensure that human rights abuses are brought to mainstream awareness, making it harder for abusers to get away with their violations.
Mali’s military junta has escalated its crackdown on political opposition and civil society, abolishing multiparty politics and launching a campaign of repression that has left
Army-backed militias known as “Wazalendo” are committing widespread atrocities against civilians in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with the government’s direct support, according
Uganda’s parliament has passed the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (Amendment) Bill, 2025, granting military courts sweeping powers to try civilians accused of crimes linked to
Mali’s military junta has escalated its crackdown on political opposition and civil society, abolishing multiparty politics and launching a campaign of repression that has left
Chad’s main opposition leader, Succès Masra, was arrested at his home in N’Djamena by government security forces on the morning of May 16, 2025, sparking
A recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report has uncovered chilling details of ethnic massacres in Burkina Faso, exposing systematic atrocities by both government forces and
