Early warning must be matched by early action to prevent atrocity crimes in Africa – William Nyarko

William Nyarko, Executive Director of the Africa Center for International Law and Accountability (ACILA), has called for Africa's increasingly sophisticated early warning systems to be matched by timely political action, warning that the failure to act on credible warnings continues to cost countless lives across the continent.

Speaking during a high-level panel discussion at the Convening in Commemoration of Atrocities Watch Africa's (AWA's) 10-Year Anniversary, Nyarko said that while significant progress has been made over the past decade in detecting and documenting risks of mass atrocities, preventive action has too often lagged behind early warning. ...