[HRW] Nairobi -African Union (AU) forces in Somalia (AMISOM) should impartially investigate the killing by alleged Ugandan army troops of six men at a wedding on July 31, 2015, in the Somali port town of Merka. The investigation should be carried out with maximum protection for witnesses, and the Ugandan government should fairly prosecute any of its soldiers responsible for criminal offenses.
[The Star] An NGO is expected to sue a police officer on Friday for allegedly stripping and posting near-dude photographs of a student in Kirinyaga county last week.
[The Star] After being mercilessly hacked off the bodies of dying elephants, the bloodied ivory is then wiped off and forced on a long, illegal journey across the sea.
[Moroccan American Center] Over the last few months, there has been a series of events in Morocco that have sparked a vigorous debate over cultural and social issues - and civil society activism on both sides - in a country widely known for its moderate approach to Islam and its embrace of diversity. It has certainly been an interesting few months in Morocco, with civil society using increased political space (the result of decades of reform) to air longstanding social and cultural questions.
[Premium Times] The Federal Ministry of Interior on Thursday said it would soon install surveillance cameras in prisons to check cases of jailbreaks in the country.
[Deutsche Welle] Cameroonians are undergoing numerous security checks introduced after the government deployed large numbers of soldiers to all major towns to search people, shops and houses in response to terrorism threats.
[HRW] A 12-year-old girl is reported to be the latest victim of sexual abuse by the very people dispatched to protect her: United Nations peacekeepers. In the most recent case we know of, documented by Amnesty International, UN peacekeeping forces are said to have raped the girl in August during a house search in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic (CAR). In a very unusual step, the UN secretary-general requested that the head of the CAR peacekeeping mission resign.
[Botswana Daily News] Gaborone -The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is facing a cereal deficit of over six million tonnes emanating from the poor rainfall and floods that befell the region in the 2014/2015 season.