Southern African governments must ensure the protection and well-being of persons with albinism, who are increasingly vulnerable amid the COVID-19 crisis as lockdowns across the region hinder access to healthcare facilities and skin cancer clinics as well as vital sunscreen, Amnesty International...

As COVID-19 continues to spread across Southern Africa, governments are targeting journalists and media houses that are critical of their handling of the pandemic, Amnesty International warned today marking World Press Freedom Day. “From Madagascar to Zambia, we have seen governments criminalizing...

One year after Amnesty International exposed the devastating impact of forced evictions on hundreds of people in Eswatini, many of those forcibly evicted are still living in misery and inadequate housing, Amnesty International said today. “Despite Amnesty International having raised the alarm over...

The brutal forced eviction of 61 people, including 33 children, from a farming area in Eswatini one year ago has left in its wake a host of distressed children and poverty-stricken families struggling to survive, Amnesty International said following speaking to the affected families 12 months after...

In response to the swearing in of Ambrose Dlamini as the new Prime Minister of Eswatini, Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for Southern Africa said: “As Prime Minister of Eswatini, Ambrose Dlamini has a real opportunity to take Eswatini in a new direction, ensuring that all...

The next government of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) must bring an end to the long record of human rights violations that have blighted the country for more than four decades, Amnesty International said today, as people in Africa’s last absolute monarchy head to the polls. The Southern African...

The Eswatini government must halt forced evictions which have left hundreds of people homeless and pushed them deeper into poverty, Amnesty International said in a new report today. They don’t see us as people: security of tenure and forced evictions in Eswatini details forced evictions in two...

The Swazi government is continuing to use repressive laws, including the 1938 Sedition and Subversive Activities Act (SSA Act) and the 2008 Suppression of Terrorism Act (STA) as a tactic to silence its critics and suppress their rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly,...

Botswana’s President Ian Khama should use his tenure and leadership position as chairperson of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to prioritise finding solutions to the human rights crisis in the region, said Amnesty International. The most pressing issues President Khama should...

Botswana’s President Ian Khama should use his tenure and leadership position as chairperson of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to prioritise finding solutions to the human rights crisis in the region, said Amnesty International. The most pressing issues President Khama should...

Swaziland: Deplorable sentences against journalist and lawyer stifle free speech The sentencing of a newspaper editor and a human rights lawyer to two years in prison on charges of contempt of court after a grossly unfair trial in Swaziland is an outrageous attempt to silence dissenting voices,...

The sentencing of a newspaper editor and a human rights lawyer to two years in prison on charges of contempt of court after a grossly unfair trial in Swaziland is an outrageous attempt to silence dissenting voices, said Amnesty International. “With this sentence, Swaziland is sending the message...