AFRICA

Chad: democracy still on hold

With France’s backing, military leaders keep repressing demands for democracy

Democracy cancelled: Tunisia’s new constitution

Low-turnout referendum confirms president’s absolute power

NORTHERN AFRICA

Ethiopia: peace desperately needed

Recent wave of violence in Oromia region adds to grim litany of rights violations

CONFLICT | CRISIS

Gabon and Togo offer renewed test of Commonwealth values

Two new members join the Commonwealth – despite repressing democracy and human rights

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

‘The new constitution will guarantee the president extensive powers, enabling further violations’

NORTHERN AFRICA

Migrants pay the deadly cost of Spain’s harsh approach

Full investigation needed into multiple deaths at attempted crossing of Morocco-Spanish border

NORTHERN AFRICA

Tanzania: Maasai people resist forced evictions

Indigenous people face government plan to forcibly remove them for tourism development

‘Our right to be recognised and represented as an Indigenous community is being violated’

‘The human rights of the Maasai people are violated through involuntary assimilation and relocation’

Sudan: military needs to make way for democracy

Small recent concessions granted by military government shouldn’t appease international community