Extra-judicial Killings in Ethiopia's Oromia Region

 Reuters published on 23 February 2024 an investigative report titled "In Ethiopia, A Secret Committee Orders Killings and Arrests to Crush Rebels" by Giulia Paravicini.

Following interviews with more than 30 officials, judges, lawyers, and victims in Oromia region, a Reuters' investigation concluded that a secretive committee known as Koree Nageenyaa has ordered extra-judicial killings and illegal detentions to crush an insurgency led by the Oromo Liberation Army.  

Sudan: Killing of Protesters Continues

 UN News published on 18 November 2021 an article titled "Bachelet Condemns Killings of Peaceful Protesters in Sudan."

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, announced that at least 39 peaceful protesters have been killed by Sudanese security forces since the 25 October military coup.  

Extrajudicial Killings in Kenya?

The Institute for Defense Analyses published on 14 July 2016 a commentary titled "Extrajudicial Killings in Kenya: A Sign of Eroding Rule of Law?" by Sarah Graveline.

Following the murder early in July of a human rights lawyer, his client, and a taxi driver, when they were last seen in police custody raises the question of the possibility of extra-judicial killings.

Plight of Ethnic Somalis in Kenya

The Washington Post published on 8 January 2016 an article titled "Ethnic Somalis Are Dying in Kenya, and Some Say the Government Is to Blame" by Ariel Zirulnick.  The Kenyan government claims the death of Somalis is due to the actions of al-Shabaab while members of Parliament representing predominantly ethnic-Somali areas say many of the victims are at the hands of Kenyan security forces.