NHRC urges justice-led approach to insecurity in Africa

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has urged African governments to move away from military-first responses to insecurity and adopt a justice-driven approach that tackles the root causes of conflict and economic instability.
The Commission made the call in a paper presented at the 2026 African Bar Association Conference in Cape Verde, themed “Resilient Africa’s Roadmap for Sustainable Development.”
The paper, “Legal Mechanisms to Ensure Access to Justice in Regions Affected by Security Threats,” draws on the North-East insurgency and the Benue farmer-herder crisis as case studies.
It identifies four major legal and institutional gaps: socio-economic rights that cannot be en...