Posts having tag: human rights
Egypt mourns 'headscarf martyr'! Marwa Sherbini is being hailed as the shahida, or martyr, of the Hijab The body of a Muslim woman, killed in a German courtroom by a man convicted of insulting ...
US warns Ethiopia on Somali role! Ethiopian troops invaded in 2006, pulling out earlier this year The US has urged Ethiopia not to send its troops back into Somalia. The senior US official for ...
Nigeria militants seize ship crew! Attacks by Mend and other groups have severely cut Nigeria's oil output Militants in Nigeria are holding six members of the crew of an oil tanker, including its ...
Charity plea over kidnapped pair! Hundreds of thousands of people need aid in Darfur The head of an Irish charity whose aid workers were kidnapped in Darfur has appealed for their safe ...
Somali civilians killed by shells! Thousands have fled the battles as civilians are caught in the crossfire Twelve civilians have died in the Somali capital as government soldiers retaliated to ...
Zimbabwe army 'to go from mines'! Until the military moved in illegal diggers were seeking their fortune Zimbabwe's government has agreed to withdraw soldiers from diamond mining fields amid ...
African move on Bashir dismissed! Mr Ocampo said Mr Bashir, above, remained a wanted man The African Union's (AU) decision not to help arrest Sudan's president will not affect the International ...
ZIMBABWE- LETTER FROM THE DIASPORA ! 3rd July 2009 Dear Friends, Words have a nasty habit of coming back to haunt you. I suspect that Morgan Tsvangirai may well be regretting some of the things he said in Southwark Cathedral a couple of weeks ago. One particular expression he used smacked of ...
Kenya sets new tribunal deadline! Rioting started after claims of fraud in the December 2007 election Kenya and the International Criminal Court have agreed on a new deadline to set up a special ...
Summit takes AU back to its roots! Leaders from some 50 African countries are attending the AU summit By Christian Fraser ...
Zanzibaris kicking the heroin habit! By Frederica Boswell BBC News, Zanzibar ...
DR Congo troops accused of rapes! The UN backs the Congolese army offensive Government troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo carry out most of the rapes of civilians caught up in the war ...
'Why I took up arms against Ethiopia'! The ONLF says these rocks conceal mass graves By Yannick Demoustier and Jonathan Alpeyrie ...
Three charged for migrant deaths! Hundreds of Africans risk the journey to Spain in small boats Three Moroccans who survived a migrant boat accident are accused of organising the journey from ...
African troops - 'fig-leaf' for Somalia? By Mark Doyle BBC World Affairs correspondent ...
Fury at Rwanda sterilisation bill! Rwanda is being urged to drop a draft law which would forcibly sterilise people who are mentally disabled. US-based campaign group Human Rights Watch said the proposed law was deeply ...
Militants attack Nigeria oil base! Militant attacks have sharply cut Nigeria's oil output The main militant group in Nigeria's Niger Delta says it has attacked an oil facility, the second attack ...
US envoy to meet Darfur's rebels! More than two million people have fled their homes in Darfur The US envoy for Sudan, Scott Gration, is due to meet Darfur rebel leaders in neighbouring Chad in a ...
Egypt reopens crossing into Gaza! Students and medical patients were among those allowed through Egypt has opened its Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip for three days, allowing some Palestinians to leave the blockaded territory. On the Egyptian side, 700 people and 10 trucks ...
Cathy Buckle's Weekly Letter from Zimbabwe ! GOLD AND DIAMONDS ! Dear Family and Friends, A few months ago a friend was approached by a vendor who had a large walnut -sized transparent stone. The vendor didn't want to say where he'd got the stone from but claimed it was a diamond and he was trying to sell it. The stone had a sharp edge ...
