Category Africa
Amid peace efforts, South Sudan arrests activist Peter Biar Ajak [Al Jazeera]
Report on the detention of Peter Biar Ajak and pattern of arbitrary detention in South Sudan. First published in Al Jazeera on 15 August 2018: On July 28, Deng Ajak-Agutdau received a phone call with news that his brother had been arrested at Juba airport by the National Security Services (NSS), South Sudan’s intelligence agency. […]
Chemical weapons in Sudan and the ‘responsibility to protect’ [The New Arab]
Powerful nations are losing sight of what the ‘responsibility to protect’ really means First published in The New Arab on 7 October 2016: Powerful nations are losing sight of what the responsibility to protect (R2P) really means, as it is often equated with military intervention. But obligations under this principle are much wider, and […]
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Libyan slavery: Don’t be fooled by the ‘shock’, we’ve known about this for a while now [Middle East Eye]
Opinion piece in Middle East Eye on CNN report of the Libya slave trade and action by world leaders: Last month, an undercover investigation by CNN revealed that black African migrants were being sold into slavery in Libya. Since the report broke, news on it has gone viral and world leaders have expressed outrage. But […]