Posts having tag: human rights
Zimbabwe army 'runs diamond mine'! Until the military moved in illegal diggers were seeking their fortune Lobby group Human Rights Watch has accused Zimbabwe's army of using forced labour, ...
'Attack' mars Nigeria oil amnesty! Militant attacks have sharply cut Nigeria's oil output Nigeria's main oil militant group has claimed to have carried out a new attack in the Niger Delta, hours ...
Horror of Kenya's 'witch' lynchings! Joseph Ondieki, at the grave of his mother, who was burned as a witch By Odhiambo Joseph ...
'Why I booed Morgan Tsvangirai'! Mr Tsvangirai was forced to halt his speech after protesters chanted 'Mugabe must go' Batson Chapata is a Zimbabwean refugee living in exile in Birmingham, UK. On Saturday he travelled to London to express his frustration toward visiting Prime Minister ...
South African rapist: 'Forgive me'! Dumisani Rebombo says peer pressure led him to rape Dumisani Rebombo and his friend raped a young girl in their village in South Africa when they were ...
Nigeria to outline Delta amnesty! Mend says it is waiting to see if there is anything new on offer Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua is due to publish details of an amnesty for militants in the ...
Bumper crop, but Zimbabwe hungry! Zimbabwe has had a bumper maize crop but the hunger crisis remains Some three million people face hunger in Zimbabwe, despite a significant rise in food ...
Fury at Uganda shooting verdict ! Two died at the rally for ...
African al-Qaeda 'killed' US man ! Chris Leggett taught in a ...
Togo abolishes the death penalty! Togo's parliament has voted unanimously to abolish the death penalty. The vote was witnessed by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. He has been campaigning for a global ...
Sudan to execute diplomat killers! John Granville was killed while driving home on New Year's Day Four men in Sudan have been sentenced to death for the killing of a US diplomat and his driver ...
Somalia MPs flee assassinations! Hardline Islamists have been battling pro-government forces since 7 May Scores of Somali politicians have fled the war-torn Horn of Africa nation in the last ...
Blood diamond scheme 'is failing'! The Kimberley Process aims to stem the flow of blood diamonds The Kimberley Process certification scheme, which aims to stop the use of diamonds to fund ...
Somali president calls emergency! Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed came to power in January Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has declared a state of emergency in the ...
Ex-minister jailed for genocide! Some 800,000 people were killed during Rwanda's 1994 genocide A Rwandan ex-deputy interior minister who tricked thousands of people into hiding on a hill where ...
Somali 'thieves' face amputation! The health of the alleged thieves will be assessed before the amputation Hardline Islamists have condemned four young Somali men to a double amputation for ...
Kenyan veterans in UK court bid An estimated 160,000 people were detained during the insurgency A case against the British government brought by veterans of Kenya's independence struggle will be ...
Zimbabwe PM defends Mugabe unity! Former opponents Mugabe and Tsvangirai are now partners Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has defended his support of President Robert Mugabe in an ...
Ethiopia rejects Somali request ! Militants have been ...
Zimbabwe PM jeered by UK exiles! Mr Tsvangirai had appealed for exiles to return to Zimbabwe Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has been forced to cut short an event where he was ...
