PART D: Torture in the Promotional Mandate of the African Commission COMMISSIONER COUNTRIES Lawrence Murugi Mute Ethiopia, Gambia, Liberia and Sudan Lucy Asuagbor Uganda, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Malawi Maya Sahli Fadel Burkina Faso, Tunisia, Guinea, Senegal and Egypt Reine Alapini-Gansou Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Cape Verde and Togo Med S. K. Kaggwa South Africa, Botswana, Eritrea, Somalia and Zambia Faith Pansy Tlakula Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland, Mauritius, South Sudan and Sierra Leone Mohamed Bechir Khalfallah Chad, Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Central African Republic and Mauritania Pacifique Manirakiza Kenya, Mozambique, Benin, Tanzania and Guinea-Bissau Soyata Maiga Angola, Republic of Congo (Brazzaville), Niger, Libya and Equatorial Guinea Yeung Kam John Yeung Sik Yuen Comoros, Madagascar, Ghana, Sao Tome and Principe and Seychelles Zainobo Sylvie Kayitesi Burundi, Algeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti and Gabon XVII. State Reporting Under Article 62 of the African Charter, each State Party to the African Charter undertakes to submit once every two years a report on the measures it has taken ‘with a view to giving effect to the rights and freedoms recognized and guaranteed by the … Charter’. To facilitate this process, the Commission adopted Guidelines for National Periodic Reports in 1988.581 The Guidelines require States Parties to report on constitutional, legislative, administrative and other practical measures taken to implement the provisions of the Charter. States Parties are also required 581 ACHPR, “Guidelines for National Periodic Reports Under the African Charter” reprinted in R. Murray and M. Evans (eds.), Documents of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (2001) 49; and in C. Heyns (ed.) Human Rights Law in Africa, Vol. 1 (2004), 507 [hereinafter ‘Reporting Guidelines’]. 135