Human Rights expert for the Africa region
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1 June – 31 October 2021
1 - Background
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organisations in Africa are currently carrying out diverse projects in several countries, particularly in the Horn of Africa, Central Africa, and East Africa.
In coordination with different teams at the FIDH International Secretariat and member organisations in these regions, the Africa Desk has been working to document human rights violations, including sexual violence, in several contexts (specifically countries in conflict or crisis, and countries in transition) through research missions conducted in the field, investigative reports, and advocacy with national, regional and international bodies.
Education in Danger Monthly News Brief, February 2021
Format
Africa
Burundi
15 February 2021: In Kididiri, Busoni commune, Kirundo province, a police officer shot in the direction of three teachers accused of being National Congress for Liberty (CNL) members without injuring them. Source: ACLED1
25 February 2021: In Rukaramu, Mutimbuzi commune, Bujumbura province, an Imbonerakure high school teacher was attacked and killed by an armed group a few days after receiving death threats from a local chief during a National Council for the Defense of Democracy – Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) meeting in Mutimbuzi. Source: ACLED
Burkina Faso
03 February 2021: In Raogo village, Pensa commune, Sanmatenga province, a school was set on fire by suspected militants during an attack on the village. Motorbikes belonging to a Volunteers for the Defence of the Fatherland (VDP) member were also burned and four people were killed. Source: ACLED1
Burundi is slowly emerging out of a self-imposed isolation, five years after it was rocked by political instability when its late President Pierre Nkurunziza sought a controversial re-election.
Since coming into office last June, President Evariste Ndayishimiye has made state visits to four countries, hosted the Ethiopian President in Bujumbura and resumed contact with the European Union.
On the contrary, Ndayishimiye’s predecessor only set foot off Burundian soil once in five years. It was a visit to Kigoma, northwestern Tanzania that lasted a few hours. Nkurunziza never left his country again until his death last June.
The former rebel leader had survived a coup attempt on his government by disgruntled members of the army while he was in neighboring Tanzania to attend a summit of the East African Community (EAC) heads of state in May of 2015.
An extraordinary congress of Burundi s ruling party on Sunday elected former Senate President Reverien Ndikuriyo to succeed the incumbent Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye as the new party leader.
Ndikuriyo was elected as the Secretary General of the ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) in the political capital Gitega, Gitega province, central Burundi.
After being elected, Ndikuriyo thanked party members for their trust in him. He also called on Burundian people to support Ndayishimiye in the government s development and anti-poverty program.
Ndayishimiye told the congress that the central African nation has reached a satisfactory stage in consolidation of good governance and democracy, and the CNDD-FDD has contributed to it a lot.