For Human Rights Watch, the war in Ukraine has made people forget other conflicts, particularly in Africa

Photo taken in a camp for displaced people in Guyah, 100 km from Semera, Afar region, Ethiopia, on May 17, 2022. AFP - MICHELE SPATARI

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The war in Ukraine has triggered significant shifts in global power relations.

This is the observation made by the organization Human Rights Watch which released its annual report on Thursday 12 January.

Obviously with consequences for Africa.

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Mali, Burkina, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Central African Republic, DRC, Cameroon, Chad, Burundi: nine states on the continent are particularly in the sights of the organization.

For those in the Sahel, "

the situation has seriously deteriorated over the past year

", indicate the authors who denounce violations by the security forces as well as by armed groups and the glaring lack of justice.

Rwanda is singled out for its campaign against opponents, " 

the authorities have

", according to the report, "

exported their abusive methods beyond the country's borders

".

For the Congolese neighbor, the report indicates: "

the security and human rights situation in DR Congo has continued to deteriorate

".  

Human rights have deteriorated dramatically in #Mali with attacks on civilians by Islamist armed groups and killings of suspects by pro-government forces.

The govt has increasingly repressed the media and the opposition.

https://t.co/CuVCojMStf

— HRW in French (@hrw_fr) January 12, 2023

One country is particularly highlighted: Ethiopia.

Human Rights Watch investigators consider that the international community has forgotten this conflict: "

Governments and the UN have condemned summary killings, widespread sexual violence and looting, but have done little more

" which reminds signatory States of human rights charters that in this time of major and global crisis: “

They have an obligation to act to protect human rights

.

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Carine Kaneza Nantulya of the Africa division of Human Rights Watch is also concerned about the extension of the areas occupied by jihadists in Mali and Burkina and the forgetting of the conflict in Ethiopia

Guillaume Thibault

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