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Nigeria: Police and vigilante killings out of control
Nigerian hospital is reportedly planning a mass burial as its facilities are overstuffed with corpses being brought to them by the Nigerian police. The...
Uganda: Gays, HIV+ people will be killed, sympathisers jailed
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is pushing a bill that would impose the death penalty on HIV positive gay men. The Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009 seeks...
Zimbabwe: Citizens are the Real Heroes
I am not a street activist, but more from the irritable pool of intellectual key-punchers who hope that Robert Mugabe and his cronies are...
Morocco refuses hunger striker permission to land
Stretchered out of an ambulance, her face covered with a turquoise blanket, hunger striking and human rights activist Aminatou Haidar returned to her makeshift...
UK delegation has audience with hunger-striking Nobel Prize nominee, Haidar
A delegation from Britain has met with Nobel Peace prize nominee, Aminatou Haidar, who has been on hunger strike in the Lanzarote airport for...
British Parliament tables motion in support of Aminatou Haidar
A cross-party group of British MP's today tabled a Motion in Parliament expressing “dismay” at the expulsion of Nobel Peace Prize nominee Amainatou Haidar...
Spain: Nobel Prize nominee dying for freedom
The hunger-strike of Nobel Prize nominee Aminatou Haidar has drawn the attention of the world to the plight of Western Sahara, but at what...
DR Congo-The Hague: Warlords killed out of self defence
Congolese warlords facing trials in The Hague for the genocide of villagers of the ethnic Hema, in the mineral-rich Ituri province of the Democratic...
Spain-Western Sahara: Hunger-striking Nobel Prize nominee sends message of hope to her children
Aminatou Haidar, the Western Saharan Nobel Prize nominee who has been on hunger strike for six days, has used a live telephone link-up during...
Deportation of Nobel Peace Prize nominee “could backfire” on Morocco
The detention and deportation of Western Sahara's most prominent human rights activist could backfire on Morocco as the action attracts worldwide condemnation. Aminatou Haidar,...
Zimbabwe: Several tortured soldiers die after UN expert is refused entry
12 members of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) are reported dead
after allegedly tortured on accusation of stealing 20 AK 47 rifles at
Pomona Barracks.
A huge...
Western Sahara-Morocco: Poisoning the Well?
On 31st October, to mark the 34th anniversary of the occupation of Western Sahara, campaigners held a vigil outside the Moroccan embassy in London...
Zimbabwe: Chinamasa condemns UN Special Rapporteur
Prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai has expressed grave displeasure at the illegal detention and subsequent deportation from Harare of Manfred Nowak, a United Nations Special...
Western Sahara: Parliamentary questions and vigil for ‘the Casablanca Seven’
Over 40 campaigners converged on a canal in central London this week on Tuesday evening for a vigil calling for the immediate release of...
Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize drives Tsvangirai supporters into frenzy
Ordinary Zimbabweans have been disappointed by the announcement that United States of America President Barack Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for...
Morocco-Western Sahara: Moroccans risk jail for visiting W/Sahara camps in Algeria
A visit, made this week by a group of persons to the Tindouf camps in south western Algeria, has not gone down well with...
Battered men in Morocco shy away from shame
Battered men often choose to hide their agony so as not to be rejected by society. In Morocco, an association and a retired social...
Guinea: A macabre morning in Conakry
It is a heart-wrenching day at the Grand Mosque of Conakry. To mark the Independence day celebrations, the authorities have released the remains of...
Zimbabwe: “Police can’t be held liable” in Jestina Mukoko lawsuit
Human rights activist Jestina Mukoko, whose terrorism charges were dropped on Monday, is wasting no time reflecting on her traumatic experience in jail. She...
Zimbabwe: Freed Jestina Mukoko vows to continue with work
Prominent Zimbabwe human rights activist Jestina Mukoko was on Monday
morning acquitted by the Supreme Court after she challenged the
manner in which she was...
Gambia: President’s death threats spark protests around Africa
Human Rights groups in Africa are demanding that the African Union human rights commission Headquarters be removed from Gambia following a fierce threat made...
European immigration policies: Human rights abuses denounced
European Ministers in charge of immigration met Monday in Brussels. French Immigration Minister, Eric Besson, announced that he favoured the creation of an European...
Western Sahara: Torture, Abductions and disappearances
As campaigners for justice in Western Sahara world were preparing to mark the 26th International Day of the Disappeared on 30th August they received...
Zimbabwe: Upsurge of Zanu-PF mandated violence alarming
Zimbabwe army soldiers stepped up attacks on civilians in the month of June as the country’s power-sharing government showed little desire to act to...
Zimbabwean mass grave whistle-blower goes into hiding after police raid
A Zimbabwean chief who helped Kimberley Process team uncover gross human rights abuses in the diamond-rich area last month is in hiding as...
Do we need Aliens to achieve World Unity?
Unfortunately, the common good of humanity has always been hampered by divided religious views, cultural views, political views, race, ethnicities and gender. Since the...
Nigeria: Government and oil firms to face ECOWAS court over violation
The Nigerian government and six international oil-firms operating in Nigeria will defend themselves against charges of oil-related pollution and environmental damages, human rights...
Amnesty International negotiates justice with Islamist rebel groups in Somalia
Amnesty International (AI) has moved to protect four Somalians who are to be amputated for stealing following their condemnation by Islamist rebels al-Shabab.
AI...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe snubs Amnesty International chief
Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan on Thursday said
Zimbabwe's government has failed to curb human rights abuses a situation that would narrow any chances...
Zimbabwe: Officials try to block Mugabe meeting with Amnesty International’s secretary general Irene Khan
Amnesty International's secretary general Irene Khan who is in Zimbabwe has not yet met with President Robert Mugabe as their meeting awaiting approval.
It emerged...