West and Central Africa
© Sophie Garcia for Amnesty International.
Overview
As Africa remembers the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, violent conflicts dogged much of the continent throughout 2014 – unfolding or escalating in a particularly bloody way in the Central African Republic (CAR), South Sudan and Nigeria, and continuing unresolved in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Sudan and Somalia.
Countries in West and Central Africa
Benin Burkina Faso Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Congo Cote d'Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Liberia Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone TogoOur offices
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Commentary
Analysis, opinion, personal stories and more.
Mauritania
“I slept with voices demanding my death and woke up with shouts calling for me to be killed”
Nigeria
"Shell must face justice for its role in my husband's execution"
Benin
Saved from death row
United States of America
Gitmo: Time to close the damn thing