Source: Réseau Ouest Africain des Défenseurs des Droits Humains' Facebook page 1. In the evening of April 8, 2022, Sirs Kossi KOSSIKAN, Joseph TOYOU and Ditorga Sambara BAYAMINA, respectively Deputy Secretary General, Regional Secretary of Savane and Prefectoral Delegate of the Grand Lome of the Togo...
Photo credit: Getty Images The under-listed organisations in West Africa condemn the killings of the youth protesting against police brutality under the #ENDSARS movement in Nigeria. It was reported that the incident happened late in the evening on the 20th October 2020 at the Lekki Toll Gate...
For more than five years, Burkina Faso has been facing terrorist attacks led by armed endogenous groups or from neighbouring countries, where the populations and the defence and security forces have paid a heavy price. Attacks, kidnappings, killings of people and soldiers and harassment against...
The West African Human Rights Defenders Network (WAHRDN) recognizes the tremendous progress made by the governments and peoples’ of Benin and Cote d’Ivoire in the promotion and protection of human rights and particular interest in ensuring an effective and independent African human rights system that...
This statement was first posted by Réseau Ouest Africain des Défenseurs des Droits Humains - Roaddh/wahrdn Togolese authorities urgently need to take action to protect human rights defenders in the performance of their function, said today, AI, the Human Rights defenders s' Human Rights defenders, International...
On February 28, 2020, hundreds of protesters who met to organise a peaceful demonstration, following the call of Archbishop Kpodzro, were forbidden to demonstrate and were chased out and some were also arrested. The conduct of the security on the demonstrators resulted in several injuries....
