MEDIA
Writing from our work: reflections, analysis and reporting from the communities, activists and defenders we stand alongside.
Global Rights is deeply saddened and gravely concerned by the escalating violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), particularly the intensifying clashes in the strategic city of Goma. Reports of civilian casualties, mass displacement, and the looting of humanitarian supplies underscore the devastating toll this conflict is taking on the Congolese people.
When Sudan’s recent crisis broke out in April, it was a harrowing sign of the humanitarian disaster that was to follow. Now, after months of violence, displacement, food insecurity, destroyed passports, and more, many of the concerns that experts had in April have come to fruition and have been even more troubling than expected.
The recent general elections in Gabon and Zimbabwe continue to raise the concerning pattern of deliberate undermining of the principles of fairness and transparency that underscore the ethos upon which sustainable democracies are built all around the world.
Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis is one of the continent’s most forgotten conflicts and still the protracted crisis has contributed to mass displacement, a humanitarian crisis, and violence that impacts the government, separatists, and civilians.
Senegal’s recent protests in response to the sentencing of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko were met with extreme human rights violations at the hands of President Macky Sall’s government.