confronted with abject discrimination, including illogical limitations on their right to travel. The death penalty continues to be in force. Mauritania Morocco Sudan Tunisia Western Sahara Sub-Saharan Africa A 10-year imprisonment was sentenced to four Cameroon soldiers for shooting dead 2 women and 2 children in 2015. The shooting was captured in a video that was circulated online in 2018. In the video the soldiers were seen accusing the women of having links to Boko Haram, a terrorist organization. Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Eswatini Ghana Guinea Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe See also Child Soldiers International Africa List of human rights articles by country References Further reading Bösl, Anton & Diescho, Joseph (Eds), Human Rights in Africa. Legal Perspectives on their protection and promotion; Macmillan Education Namibia 2009. Girls' Education in Africa What Do We Know About Strategies That Work? Horn, Nico and Anton Bösl (eds.) Human Rights and the Rule of Law in Namibia, Macmillan Namibia 2009. Viljoen, Frans and Chidi Odinkalu. "The Prohibition of Torture and Ill-treatment in the African Human Rights System A HANDBOOK FOR VICTIMS AND THEIR ADVOCATES." (Archive) World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT). OMCT Handbook Series Vol. 3 Series Editor: Boris Wijkström When you educate a girl,everything changes Girls' education and gender equality Africa: Make Girls' Access to Education a Reality Sub-Saharan Africa rates poorly in equal education for boys and girls: U.N. Combatting violence against women in Algeria: Mobilizing and challenges Algeria, Gender Equality Profile, UNICEF Entrenching Poverty in Egypt: Human Rights Violations that Contributed to the January 25 Revolution The Politics of Human Rights in Egypt and Jordan The future of human rights protection in the new Libya: Prospects and challenges Priorities for legislative reform: A human rights road map for a new Libya OVERVIEW OF VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND HUMANITARIAN LAW DURING THE ONGOING VIOLENCE IN LIBYA Human Rights Situation in Nigeria and Women's Rights Concerns in Mauritania THE TRUE STATE OF THE STATE OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN AFRICA Improving Gender Equality in Africa WOMEN'S RIGHTS FIGURES IN AFRICA: 10 FACTOIDS TO MAKE YOU THINK! It's tough for women to get to the top in