Atrocities by Armed Islamist Group in Niger: Daily Brief

Hundreds of civilians killed during attacks in Niger; Sudan's Bashir could be on his way to the International Criminal Court; Ethiopian forces accused of systematic rape in Tigray; BBC exposes scale of Russian mercenary mission in Libya; illegal evictions in Iraq; vicious homophobic attack in Cameroon; the growing threat of transnational repression; and join the global movement to #BreakTheChains!

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Niger’s authorities should take urgent steps to stop killings of civilians, says Human Rights Watch in new research published today. They should:
- Establish early warning networks
- Reduce the army’s response times to threatened villages
- Create committees to identify and respond to urgent protection needs.

Sudan's former dictator Hassan al-Bashir seems to be on his way to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. He's wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Armed forces in Ethiopia have been accused of systematic rape in the Tigray region, in a report published today by Amnesty International.

BBC News has revealed the scale of operations by Russian mercenary group Wagner in Libya's conflict, in a new investigation.

The Iraqi army has unlawfully evicted dozens of families from a village north of Baghdad since July 2021 in an apparent family feud involving a government minister.

A brutal attack on two transgender women in Cameroon occurred just weeks after a court ordered the women, Shakiro and Patricia, released from prison pending their appeal of a five-year sentence on arbitrary “homosexuality” charges. The attack is a stark reminder that whether or not they are behind bars, transgender people in Cameroon are not free.

Several incidents in the past years seem to indicate that authoritarian regimes have become accomplished hunter-gatherers of dissidents outside their borders.

And did you know that thousands of people all over the world are still being chained? You can do something to stop this.