Human Rights Watch has documented 340 cases of arbitrary detention by Sudanese Armed Forces since September 2025. The war is grinding into its second year with no resolution in sight.
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When Senegal’s parliament approved one of Africa’s most punitive anti-LGBT laws in March 2026, advocates for people living with HIV feared the worst. Their concerns are now being confirmed. New data suggests that access to testing, treatment, and prevention services for vulnerable populations has collapsed, threatening to unravel one of sub-Saharan Africa’s most celebrated HIV
Senegal has formally signed into law a bill that doubles the maximum prison sentence for same-sex relations from five to ten years, in a move that human rights organisations have condemned as a catastrophic retreat from the principles of individual liberty and human dignity. The law, passed by the National Assembly in March with an
When the sun rises over Burkina Faso’s remote villages, families wake to a terror that comes from two directions at once. A landmark report by Human Rights Watch has laid bare what analysts have long suspected: both government security forces and jihadist insurgent groups are responsible for systematic civilian killings that have claimed the lives
