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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE ​​​Death penalty 2020: Botswana, Somalia and South Sudan continue to dominate with executions in East and Southern Africa.

21 APRIL 2021 Botswana doubles the number of yearly executionsChina pursued the death penalty to crack down on offences related to Covid-19 prevention effortsFormer US administration executed staggering 10 people in less than six months in 2020Lowest number of executions recorded in a decade for third consecutive yearThe unprecedented challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic were …

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE ​​​Sub-Saharan Africa: The devastating impact of conflicts compounded by COVID-19.

  AMNESTY INTERNATIONALPRESS RELEASE​​​Sub-Saharan Africa: The devastating impact of conflicts compounded by COVID-19 Sub-Saharan Africa: The devastating impact of conflicts compounded by COVID-19  Pandemic hits those shackled by oppression hardest thanks to decades of inequalities, neglect and abuseIt lays bare massive systemic inequality with marginalized communities, unemployed people, health workers, and women among the most …

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Somalia -(23.02.2021)-: Al-shabab’s Rampage Against Marginalized Communities in Lowe Shabelle Region..

Somalia – Witnesses & survivors of alshabab’s merciless terrorists’ rampant attack on the following districts of Leego, Yaaqbiri Wayne, Goobaanle, & Beledul Amiin narrate harrowing accounts of people being killed, women being raped, children being kidnapped, houses, stores & cars being burnt down to ashes, camels and other livestock being robbed and drink wells being …

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Geneva – (05.02.2021): Interview with Mary Lawlor, the current UN Special Rapporteur on HRDs.

Horn Afrik News Agency for Human Rights HANAHR online editor (I. Adam) has interviewed Mary Lawlor via zoom directly in Geneva. Mary Lawlor UN Special Rapporteur on HRDs situation, has said in the interview with HANAHR, ” I am recently appointed as the UN special rapporteur on HRDs situation in the world. I am firstly …

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Somalia: Media Infrastructure

Media InfrastructureIn SomaliaPrepared by: I. Adam & Sh. Abdirahman Horn Afrik News Agency for Human Rights HANAHR www.hanahr.net23.01.2021 I.          Introduction and Brief History Internet usage in Somalia grew 39.9% iin the last five years, registering the highest in Africa.Source: Internet Usage Statistics for Africa Communication in the Somali society has been transmitted orally for a …

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12.5.2018 – Libya Migrant Crisis: Impunity for Human Traffickers in the EU

2011 witnessed the begining of the popualr Arab spring which led to the death of Libya`s president Muammer Alghadafi, and the total destruction of Libya`s governmental institutions. Simulteniously Syria`s civil war commenced as a result of a continued demonstraions, and civil unrest. This led to the displacement of millions of refugees internally, and externally, which …

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Somalia (Puntland region): Journalist Kilwe Adan Farah detained, accused of murder.

Mogadishu, January 20, 2021 – Authorities in the semi-autonomous Somali state of Puntland should immediately and unconditionally release journalist Kilwe Adan Farah, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On December 27, 2020, intelligence personnel in Garowe, the capital of Puntland, detained Kilwe, who runs the Facebook-based news outlet Kilwe Media Inc, according to posts by his outlet …

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Somalia: Human Rights Situation in Kismayo aka Small North Korea

Kismayo is a small sea-side town that falls south of Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital city. The city is administered by the last remaining warlord who founded and fought for alshabab (Sheikh Ahmed Islam aka Ahmed Madoobe), the city is quite, people fear to talk to strangers or even to reporters, reporters themselves don’t dare to report …

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