Africa Program Coordinator @pressfreedom. Former editor Mail & Guardian, The Witness & The Mercury 🇿🇦. Views are my own, and not CPJ’s.
Jul 30, 2020 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Strong open letter from a group of African writers to @AUC_MoussaFaki & @DrTaxs on the arrest of #Zimbabwe-an journalist #HopewellChinono & the continued silence of @_AfricanUnion and @SADCnews when citizens' rights are trampled upon by member states. theafricareport.com/35715/zimbabaw…
The letter states: "The African Union, an organisation that was quick to tell the world that #BlackLivesMatter in the wake of George Floyd’s murder & other human rights abuses by police in the United States, seems strangely silent about the violation of Black Lives in Africa."