In recent months, there has been a spate of abductions, assaults, arrests and murders, the victims all being opponents or critics of President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government

Hundreds of opposition supporters have disappeared in the last few months, allegedly detained or abducted by Uganda’s security forces

As more businesspeople go missing, private investigators tell of a sophisticated global network.

The United Nations is demanding Boko Haram to immediately release the more than 200 girls, who are believed to still be within Nigeria’s borders.

Children are being abducted from camps housing those displaced by Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict, human rights groups charged on Thursday.

Zimbabwe MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Friday that his party will quit talks for a unity government if abductions of party members do not stop.

Jason Moyo reports on how the Mugabe regime is using abduction as a means of political struggle.