PART D: Torture in the Promotional Mandate of the African Commission As of 2013, the Special Rapporteur had visited thirteen countries (three of them twice) in the following sequence: Zimbabwe 23 February - 3 March 1997 Mali 20 - 30 August 1997 Mozambique 14 - 24 December 1997 Madagascar 10 - 20 February 1998 Mali 27 November - 8 December 1998 (2nd visit) The Gambia 21 - 26 June 1999 Benin 23 - 31 August 1999 Central African Republic 19 - 29 June 2000 Mozambique 4 - 14 April 2001 (2nd visit) Malawi 17 - 28 June 2001 Namibia 17 - 28 September 2001 Uganda 11 - 23 March 2002 Cameroon 2 - 15 September 2002 Benin 23 January - 5 February 2003 (2nd visit) Ethiopia 15 - 29 March 2004 South Africa 14 - 30 June 2004 The Special Rapporteur also visited prisons in Swaziland in May 2008 when the Commission held its Fourty-third Ordinary Session there, however this was not an official visit and no report on conditions of detention in Swaziland was issued. Similarly, the Special Rapporteur has carried out ad hoc prison visits in the context of promotional missions, for example to Algeria in 2009, or in his capacity as a member of the Committee on the Prevention of Torture in Africa, as was the case in Liberia in 2008. These visits have not been documented in a report by the Special Rapporteur. The above list does not necessarily reflect the countries in which the abuse of detainees’ and prisoners’ rights is of particular concern. The dearth of reports on northern countries is problematic because various reports regularly indicate that detainees’ and prisoners’ rights may be at risk in, for example, Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. The lack of State consent to SRP visits is the main reason for the lack of visits to these countries. However, despite the dire situation of thousands of detainees in Rwandan prisons, the SRP has not visited Rwanda for a different reason. The 139