Nigerian security forces have carried out a repressive campaign that has claimed 115 lives including those of civilians in the Southeast region since Jan. 2021, London-based Amnesty International said in a new report. According to AI, the Nigerian security agents responded with excessive force in the region’s spiralling violence, unlawfully arresting people and violating their […]
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Fighting between separatist groups in Cameroon’s anglophone regions and the government forces is exacting a devastating scale of destruction, a new research by London-based human rights group, Amnesty International, has revealed. In 2017, protests over perceived marginalisation by the Francophone ruling majority erupted in the Anglophone regions with violent quelling of the demonstrations propelling some […]
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Global rights group, Amnesty International, has expressed worries over the state of affairs in Tigray, Ethiopia, where government troops are not allowing aid workers access to conflict areas where many are in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Humanitarian aid workers laid their concerns on Tuesday, 29 June 2021 over continued lack of humanitarian access for […]
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