According to Mboneko Munyaga, looking at from the standpoint of the failure to address rampant poverty, it can be rightly said that the whole of Africa is one tragic pot of human and peoples’ rights violation.
 
Munyaga is of the view that impunity in Africa is the order of the day, with the ever widening socio-economic gap leading to even more political rights issues such as corruption, plundering of natural resources and freedom of expression, among others.
 
At its 57th ordinary session in Banjul, the Gambia last November, the African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights, adopted recommendations from the forum of NGOs, which showed troubling human rights concerns in 23 countries, almost half of the African Union member states.
 
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