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This brief focuses on a central aspect of transitional justice: preventing impunity for past human rights abuses. Drawing on lessons from Latin America, the author outlines several accountability processes available to African Union member states and African civil society organizations, the strengths and challenges of implementing these official processes at the national level, and strategies for promoting accountability. The paper also discusses regional litigation and domestic prosecutions, as well as reparations, truth telling and community‐based justice mechanisms.