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.  

The Horrors of Eritrea's Prison System

 The Washington Post published on 6 January 2024 an article titled "An African Gulag So Ghastly that Inmates Risk Death to Escape" by Katharine Houreld.

Based on interviews with former prisoners, many of whom were trying to avoid Eritrean National Service, the article describes the conditions in Eritrea's extensive prison system, which are said to be deplorable.

Past Use of Torture in Ethiopia

Ethiopia Insight published on 2 July 2019 an article titled "Moving on from Ethiopia's Torturous Past" by Felix Horne, Human Rights Watch.

This is an account of the use of torture in Ethiopia's past.

Kenya: The Error of Fighting Terror with Terror

The state-funded Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) published in September 2015 a report titled "The Error of Fighting Terror with Terror."  The report documents over 120 cases of egregious human rights violations that include 25 extrajudicial killings and 81 enforced disappearances.  The violations are widespread, systematic and well-coordinated.  Most of them are aimed at the Somali population in response to terrorist attacks waged by Somalia-based al-Shabaab against innocent Kenyan civilians.  The report emphasizes that this is not the way to solve the problem posed by al-Shabaab.

Eritrea Rejects Devastating UN Human Rights Report

The UN Human Rights Council released on 5 June 2015 the lengthy "Report of the Detailed Findings of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea."  The Commission concluded that systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations have been and are being committed in Eritrea under the authority of the Eritrean government.  

The Eritrean foreign ministry declared the UN report was "totally unfounded and without merit" and said it constituted "extreme charges and indecent hyperbole" according to a 10 June 2015 report by Reuters.