Nairobi, May 4 -- Africa is coming across as the home of human rights violations with Amnesty International fingering several countries for atrocities.

The human rights abuse include extra-judicial killings, forced disappearances, arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture and other ill-treatments, restrictions on freedom of association and assembly, and gender-based violence.

In its report, "State of the World's Human Rights," Amnesty International says African governments remained largely indifferent to calls to tackle impunity, thereby allowing it to flourish, fuelling the cycle of violations and abuses, and disregard for the rule of law.

Sudan, South Sudan, Burundi, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea and Kenya have ...