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Africa RSS FeedsZimbabwe: Rights Group Names And Shames Judges, Lawyers - Human rights lawyers in Harare have issued a blow-by-blow account detailing how the actions - and inaction - of named Zimbabwean judges, magistrates and state lawyers have facilitated the unlawful detention of activists who have allegedly been tortured....Feed Source: allafrica.com Guinea: Nigeria Tackles Libya, Senegal Over Coup Backing - The coup in Guinea has pitched African leaders against each other as President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua is set to mobilise other West African leaders in a move to checkmate his colleagues from Libya and Senegal, Muammar Gaddafi and Abdoulaye Wade, who are believed to be supporting the new military regime.... Kenya: Kibaki Gag Law Splits Government - President Mwai Kibaki's recent decision to approve a law to gag the broadcast media has continued to outrage the country, further soiling the now debated legacy of the man who was swept to power in 2002 by a wave of hope for democratic reforms.... Ghana: Kufuor Ushers Mills Into Presidential Complex - Just a few days before the inauguration of the newly elected President of Ghana, President J.A. Kufuor yesterday invited the President-elect, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills to the Golden Jubilee House.... Somalia: Ethiopia Deploys Clans Against Divided Islamists - Somalia's treacherous political landscape is reinventing itself following the surprise resignation of Abdullahi Yusuf as president of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), after four years in power that fueled the rise of an Islamist phenomenon.... West Africa: Ecowas Plans to Suspend Guinea - In an emergency meeting of Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) scheduled for Friday, the suspension of Guinea will be announced to emphasise to the new military junta the regional body's zero tolerance for military coups.... Zimbabwe: Court Contest Over 'Tortured' Activists - THE Attorney General's Office yesterday urged the court to dismiss various court applications being made by lawyers representing Zimbabwe Peace Project director Jestina Mukoko and 15 MDC-T activists, saying they were just tactics employed to delay trial proceedings.... East Africa: Ministers Discuss Fuel Crisis - Ministers in charge of East African Affairs have discussed the ongoing fuel crisis in the region as a way of finding a solution to the problem that has affected the region despite the general decrease of its price on the global market.... Uganda: 20 LRA Fighters Surrender in DRC - TWENTY fighters of the Lord's Resistance Army have surrendered to the Congolese army as the three-week multinational assault on the rebels' hideouts in the Garamba jungles continues.... Congo-Kinshasa: UN Reaches Villages in North-East Attacked By Ugandan Rebels - The United Nations refugee agency has reached towns in the strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the scene of bloody attacks carried out by the notorious Ugandan rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).... West Africa: But is It Really Trafficking? - For years children's rights groups have been fighting child trafficking in West Africa. Now, some of those groups are questioning how children have benefited from anti-trafficking interventions as they launch a project to understand children's perilous migration throughout West Africa.... Lesotho: Feeling the Pinch of Soaring Food Prices - Urban families in Lesotho, a small landlocked southern African country, are struggling to cope with rising food prices, according to a recent survey.... Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Dollar Abandoned - The progressive 'dollarisation' of Zimbabwe has extended to rural areas, where dwellers now sell their fresh produce in U.S. dollars.... Zimbabwe: Cholera Spread Continues And Death Toll Keeps Climbing - The cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe appears to be worsening daily, with new figures showing the official death toll has climbed since last Friday.... Ethiopia: Government Passes Repressive New Legislation - Amnesty International called the Charities and Societies Proclamation law (CSO law), adopted today by the Ethiopian parliament, a repressive law designed to strictly control and monitor civil society in an atmosphere of increasing intolerance of the work of human rights defenders and civil society organisations. Previous drafts of the CSO law imposed strict government controls and harsh criminal penalties on non-governmental organisations.... Somalia: Gunmen Kill UN Food Aid Worker in South - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has urged all parties to the ongoing conflict in Somalia to ensure the safety of humanitarian aid workers after one of the agency's staff members was gunned down while monitoring a school feeding programme in the southern part of the war-torn nation.... East Africa: More Than 9 Million Displace in Central, East - There were 9.1 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Central and Eastern Africa region as of December 2008, according to a United Nations report released today, 400,000 less than at the end of June, but because of the fluidity of the situation officials advised against laying too much store on the reduction.... Sudan: The Land is Fertile Yet Food is Scarce - Southern Kordofan state used to produce surplus food and cash crops, but poor infrastructure, limited access to markets, conflict and landmines have left large numbers of residents without enough to eat or sell.... Southern Africa: No Takers for Funds for Water Projects - Nearly nine million dollars of donor aid intended to support transboundary water management projects in southern Africa was diverted elsewhere after governments in the region failed to submit proposals for funding.... Somalia: Urgent Help Needed for Thousands Displaced in Galgadud - Local authorities in the central Galgadud region have appealed for urgent help for at least 80,000 people displaced by fighting in the towns of Dusamareb and Guri-Eil.... Ghana: Kufuor Takes a Bow in Final Speech - President J. A. Kufuor in his last sectional address to Parliament yesterday bemoaned his inability to hand over to his party's Presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo.... South Africa: Some ANC Leaders Consider Move to New Party - The ANC is no longer sure of who is friend or foe.... Nigeria: Billions to Be Spent on Generators - Legislators have queried the Interior Ministry for proposing to spend N40 million for this year's National Day celebration which cost only N16 million in 2008.... Central Africa: Threats Force Journalists to Censor, Says Group - Amid commemorative ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as its own 10th anniversary, JED released its 2008 annual report on press freedom on 23 December 2008.... Kenya: Kibaki Approves 'Repressive' Media Law - Reporters Without Borders is stunned to learn that President Mwai Kibaki signed the Kenya Communications (Amendment) Bill 2008 into law on 2 January 2009. "This is a major step backwards in the history of press freedom in Kenya," Reporters Without Borders said. "We have for weeks been joining Kenyan journalists in denouncing this bill's reactionary and repressive nature. We do not understand President Kibaki's decision, which will seriously undermine civil liberties in his country."... Sudan: Nigerian Police Boost Darfur Peacekeepers - Two new contingents of Nigerian police officers trained in high-risk operations have joined the joint United Nations-African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission in the war-ravaged Darfur region of Sudan.... Zimbabwe: Cholera War Hots Up - GOVERNMENT today rolls out the national cholera education awareness programme and spells out modalities for the distribution of drugs, equipment and funds received from donors as measures to thwart the deadly disease intensify.... Nigeria: 40 Lawyers to Defend Ribadu - EMBATTLED former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, is ready to commence his legal battle challenging his demotion from the rank of Assistant Inspector-General of Police to Deputy Commissioner and his subsequent dismissal from the Nigeria Police Force... Zimbabwe: Journalists Facing Treason Charges Need Medical Attention Before Legal Proceedings, Say Lawyers - Lawyers representing Zimbabwe Peace Project director Jestina Mukoko and freelance photojournalist Shadreck Manyere on 5 January 2009 argued for the suspension of proceedings against their clients at the Magistrates' Courts pending the outcome of an appeal filed with the High Court before Justice Mary-Ann Gowora.... Botswana: Combi Owners Take Govt to Court Over New Fares - While commuters are celebrating a 30thebe reduction in combi fares, and reductions on long distance buses, the operators are busy arranging papers they will present before the High Court to reinstate the P3 charge to fight any reduction.... Copyright © 2009, JayKay's Link Exchange. All Rights Reserved. |