EAST AFRICA

‘People are discouraged from voting when they think that voices do not matter’

‘Due to closed civic space, it is difficult to build the resilience of communities inside the country’

Ethiopia: peace desperately needed

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

CONFLICT | CRISIS

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

‘We are back to the situation that preceded the revolution; the old regime is back’

Somalia: drought and conflict a dual threat

Millions on the brink of starvation as Somalia experiences its worst drought in decades

CONFLICT | CRISIS

‘Hate speech against LGBTQI+ people comes from religious, traditional and political leaders’