E.Guinea calls for African 'human rights institutions'
Malabo (Equatorial Guinea) (AFP) - Equatorial Guinea called Wednesday for national human rights institutions to replace international organisations across Africa, after facing accusations of a bloody crackdown following a failed coup bid last year.
"I will propose the creation of human rights institutions in each African country", longtime President Teodoro Obiang Nguema said at the start of a summit in the capital Malabo.
Such institutions already exist in most African nations, along with the Tanzania-based African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights.
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The article goes on, this sounds like a noble aspiration but this iron-fisted dictator doesn't like the international community looking into his country, he wants the country's own organizations to look at human rights, quick analysis, this sounds like he wants the fox guarding the hen house.
