Cases of ED in Africa under consideration by the WGEID by country Country Number of ED under consideration Algeria Burundi Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gambia Guinea Kenya Libya Mauritania Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nigeria Rwanda Seychelles Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Togo Tunisia Uganda Zimbabwe 3,253 238 16 3 23 89 48 308 8 63 113 13 37 88 58 6 153 3 2 7 25 3 1 2 3 177 10 13 15 5 • In Zimbabwe, official statistics are not available but civil society organizations estimate that, throughout the 1980s, more than 20,000 people were forcibly disappeared as a result of the massacres perpetrated by the Zimbabwe National Army against the Ndebele population.23 Additionally, there is an underreporting due to fear of reprisals, caused by the widespread context of attacks on victims and human rights defenders who report the crime to the authorities24. number of missing persons during the Gaddafi era and the 2011 uprising to be around 10,000.25 Further, the UN Support Mission in Libya in its report, Behind Bars, estimates that thousands of persons are being held in detention facilities run by militia and the fate of many of those in the facilities remains unknown.26 • The latest report from the WGEID notes that in the last four decades, they received only 394 reports of ED in Sudan.27 However, considering the widespread nature of torture and enforced disappearances used by the regime of former President Al-Bashir, this number is believed to be much higher. Only during the violent crackdown on peaceful • In Libya, the available statistics confirm that ED occurs but the magnitude is still unclear. The “Ministry of Martyrs and the Missing” with the “International Commission on Missing Persons” put the 23 24 25 26 27 Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, Enforced Disappearances – An Information Guide for Human Rights Defenders and CSOs, January 2016. HRW, World Report 2021, Zimbabwe, Abuses, Ill-Treatment, and Torture. International Commission on Missing Persons, Where We Work, Libya. Ibid. The Report of the WGEID (A/HRC/45/13), 7 August 2020, p. 32. 16