Murderer’s Row: Why this week’s Africa Summit needs to pay more than just lip service to human rights and good governance

Human Rights Watch By Daniel Bekele Three notorious African leaders – Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe, Eritrea’s Isaias Afewerki, and Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir – are not invited to this week’s U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C. But a number of other long-ruling African strongmen, like Angola’s José Eduardo dos Santos, Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni, will be there. In fact, over a dozen African countries which will be

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US-Africa: Make Human Rights Central to Summit

Human Rights Watch Obama Should Press African Leaders to End Repression (Washington, DC) – US President Barack Obama should ensure that human rights concerns are a major focus of the US-Africa Leaders Summit, Human Rights Watch said today. Rights concerns should not be relegated to meetings in the margins of the summit. The theme of

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