Africa Watch

January/Somalia: To gather information about the human rights situation since the U.S.-led intervention.

January-February/South Africa: To investigate human rights in KwaZulu as part of a series of reports focusing on the homelands, and, in conjunction with the Prison Project, to investigate prison conditions.

January/Rwanda: As part of an international commission, to investigate human rights abuses in Rwanda and to excavate two mass graves where victims had been buried.

March/Liberia and the Ivory Coast: To evaluate the ECOMOG intervention in Liberia from a human rights perspective, with emphasis on the period of renewed warfare since October 1992.

March/Sudan: To investigate human rights conditions in southern Sudan.

March-April/Zaire: To investigate prison conditions in Zaire for a joint report with the Prison Project, as well as to document the government manipulation of the ethnic conflict in Shaba province.

April-May/Nigeria: To investigate the role of the government in religious and ethnic conflict in northern Nigeria.

June-July/Kenya: To investigate the ethnic clashes in western Kenya and, in conjunction with the Women's Rights Project, to document the rape of Somali women refugees in northeastern Kenya.

June-July/Mozambique: To investigate the types of land mines employed and their use during the civil war for a joint report with the Arms' Project.

July-August/Sudan and Kenya: To document violations of the laws of war by all sides to the war in southern Sudan.

October/Somalia and Kenya: To investigate problems of returning refugees and displaced people in southern Somalia.

October-November/Senegal: To interview Mauritanian refugees about abuses against the black ethnic groups in Mauritania since the "democratization" of 1992.