Hereditary slavery still exists in Mali, Mauritania, and Niger. People smugglers in Libya auction off black Africans...”
Child marriage—which the International Labor Organization considers a form of slavery when forced, as it frequently is—is “entrenched” in parts of sub-Saharan Africa
People from pygmy tribes are frequently treated as sub-human, and many have been driven from their ancestral lands.
Security services in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa have so far killed at least 15, 18, and 12 people, respectively, while enforcing COVID-19-related lockdowns.
CONTEXT: That means security forces of each of those countries killed more people in weeks than U.S. police killed unarmed African Americans in all of 2019
17 African countries signed an open letter defending China’s internment of between 1-2 million ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang—and none have condemned the practice
Since its founding in 2006, the council has been a profoundly political body.
The outcome of the urgent debate is tainted by the failure of African governments to hold themselves and each other to the standard that they seemingly expect of the U.S.