Below is a roundup of some of the top articles and news highlights from around Africa over the last week:
- The Open Society Justice Initiative, in conjunction with Muslims for Human Rights (MUHURI), published a report titled, “We’re Tired of Taking You to the Court: Human Rights Abuses by Kenya’s Anti-Terrorism Police Unit.” The report documents how Kenya’s Anti-Terrorism Police Unit committed wide-ranging human rights abuses, such as “use of ...
Next week, Lithuania will host the third Eastern Partnership Summit, bringing together high-level officials from the European Union and the Eastern European Partnership states. The Eastern Partnership initiative (EaP) intends to strengthen the EU’s relationships with six of its Eastern neighbors, including the South Caucasus states of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia. The EaP initiative may lead to the signing of Association Agreements, free trade agreements, and visa...
As the European Union prepares to hold the third Eastern Partnership Summit in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius later this month, the United States is supporting moves to strengthen EU ties with countries on its eastern border, including Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. At a hearing on November 14 in the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations'...
Last week, on November 13th, the United States designated Boko Haram, the Nigerian-based Islamist terrorist group, as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO). On the same day, prior to the announcement, the U.S. House of Representative’s Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, together with the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade Joint Subcommittee, held a hearing on “The...
Over the weekend, Colombian newspaper El Tiempo published an interview with Colombia’s new Ambassador to the United States, Luis Carlos Villegas. Prior to his new post, Ambassador Villegas was a member of...
This post was compiled by WOLA Intern Michael Pelzer.
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In Honduras, officers with the recently launched Military Public Order Police (PMOP), a new branch of the armed forces, have been
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