In recognition of International Women’s Day, AWA and Af4HA will host a webinar exploring the impact of sexual violence in conflict and fragile settings across the Horn of Africa. The discussion will bring together regional experts to reflect on how gender-based...
Eastern Africa
Ethiopia on the Brink: International community must act urgently to prevent mass atrocities
20 February 2026 We, the undersigned human rights and humanitarian organizations, issue this statement with urgency and a warning on the rapidly deteriorating situation for civilians across Ethiopia. Ongoing and unresolved conflicts, entrenched impunity and escalating...
Monitor February 2026
Atrocities Watch Africa (AWA) is a non-partisan civil society organisation that provides continental leadership in matters pertaining to the prevention of mass atrocities within Africa. Our strategies and approaches are grounded in the realisation that atrocities can...
Counting What Comes Next: Electoral Repression and the Case for an Atrocity-Risk Lens in Tanzania
By Elena Kweli. Elena is a mass atrocity researcher covering Africa Why Tanzania Matters Now Tanzania’s 2025 general election marked a profound rupture with the country’s post-independence political trajectory. What unfolded went far beyond procedural irregularities...
2026 Watchlist
Atrocities Watch Africa (AWA) is a non-partisan civil society organisation that provides continental leadership in preventing and responding to of mass atrocities within Africa. Our strategies and approaches are grounded in the realisation that atrocities can...
Monitor November
Atrocities Watch Africa (AWA) is a non-partisan civil society organisation that provides continental leadership in matters pertaining to the prevention of mass atrocities within Africa. Our strategies and approaches are grounded in the realisation that atrocities can...
JOINT STATEMENT – Safe Passage: Protection for Civilians Under Siege in El Fasher
1 October 2025 - Time is running out for the estimated 260,000 civilians, including 130,000 children, trapped in El Fasher, Darfur’s final battleground between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The RSF has besieged the North Darfur...
Extend the mandate of the Fact Finding Mission
Ahead of the UN Human Rights Council’s 60th session (HRC60, 8 September–8 October 2025), civil society organisations expressed deep concern over the ongoing human rights crisis in Sudan and urged states to support a mandate extension for the Independent International...
The Quad is meeting on Sudan: Where is Africa?
On July 29, the US will convene the first major diplomatic effort to end the war in Sudan in more than a year, but the only centered African participant will be Egypt. The African Union is reportedly trying to get a representative in the door, but it is...
Monitor July 2025
Atrocities Watch Africa (AWA) is a non-partisan civil society organisation that provides continental leadership in matters pertaining to the prevention of mass atrocities within Africa. Our strategies and approaches are grounded in the realisation that atrocities can...