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U.N : Children still treated as soldiers in Africa
The situation for children caught in conflict remains "grave and entirely unacceptable" because 58 groups in 13 countries still recruit and use child soldiers,...
Free Banking for Zimbabwe
Since March 2007, Zimbabwe has been in the midst of a hyperinflation (a rate of inflation per month that exceeds 50%). This phenomenon is...
Skin Bleaching
Some people will do anything to look good! In Brazzaville in the Congo, there has been a disturbing rise in the cosmetic use of...
Addis Ababa Airport to use bar coded boarding passes
Addis Ababa Bole International Airport is to become the first airport in Africa to fully operate bar-coded boarding passes (BCBP) for all international and...
AI Senegal opposes legalised homosexuality
The chairman of the national Council of Amnesty Senegal, Samba Guissé, has called on all affiliate groups of the Senegalese chapter of Amnesty International...
End of world records ?
Bad news for sportsmen and sportswomen! According to French researchers, the Olympic motto Citius, Fortius, Altius, will soon be a thing of the past
Bad...
Egypt deports Palestinians as security situation worsens
Egypt has deported 350 Palestinians from the Sinai Peninsula to Gaza, PANA reported Tuesday. The deportations came as Egyptian police discovered hundreds of kilogrammes...
Namibia’s 3rd uranium mine ready in July
Namibia's third uranium mine, Treokkpje mine, will come on stream in July, with the company expecting to ship its first export in 2009, the...
Sudan: Hundreds of children missing after Darfur attack
Several days after Sudanese government-backed militia attacked villages in West Darfur, hundreds of children remain unaccounted for, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) said. "There...
Female circumcision drops by half in Niger
The prevalence rate of female circumcision among women aged between 15 and 49 years has dropped by half (from 5% in 1998 to 2.2%...
CPJ urges Cote d’Ivoire to lift RFI suspension
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the Ivorian authorities to immediately lift the indefinite suspension of the FM broadcasts of the...
Annual Report to the Security Council on Children and Armed Conflict
Ms. Coomaraswamy, Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Children and Armed Conflict presented the Annual Report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council...
Africa: Another Gold Rush
It was in a Parisian metro (subway / tube) that I eavesdropped on a conversation between a group of young interracial men... The South...
Tech For Food 2008 will welcome Youba Sokona
Youba Sokona will participate to Tech For Food second edition: technologies to fight against hunger in the world, which
will take place in a month...
Kenya : Tensions high as Annan-brokered talks begin
President Mwai Kibaki shakes hands with opposition leader Raila Odinga in the presence of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
The "official dialogue process" began on...
Awards, foreign investments and development
Among news that made headlines over the past week is the award for the world’s emerging economy as well as the doubling of foreign...
UN to launch anti-poverty blueprint for Africa
According to Panapress, he United Nations will soon launch its 10-year action plan aimed at strengthening the work of the African Union (AU) on...
Australian Open 2008 – Jo-Wilfried TSONGA: A sensational path
Round after round and at the end of an impressive path, a veritable master-work, since the beginning of the Australian Open, from the end...
Kenyan post-polls violence: Kibaki, Odinga appeal for calm
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Rai la Odinga held talks late Thursday and effectively paved the way for dialogue th a t...
Somalia: BBC stringer arrested on orders of provincial governor
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BBC stringer arrested on orders of provincial governor
(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has protested...
South Africa is making headlines in the international press again as powercuts increase
Power cuts in Hospitals, traffic jams clogging cities like Johannesburg and Cape Town , as traffic lights stopped working, the torching of six trains...
Indonesian ship fishing illegally in Mauritius sea
Mauritius National Coast Guard (NCG) intercepted an Indonesian ship "FV Putra Jaya No 33" during the week fishing illegally in the Mauritian territorial waters....
Congo, UNDP to launch poverty reduction project
The Congolese government and the UNDP are planning to launch a three-year project to strengthen the institutional poverty reduction framework in the country, a...
Kenya : Confirmation of electoral irregularities while police shot down demonstrators
Today, the Kenyans for Peace, Truth and Justice Initiative, a coalition of Kenyan independent NGOs amongst which FIDH member organisation, the Kenya Human Rights...
Australian Open 2008 – Jo-Wilfried TSONGA makes sensation and surges into the fourth round
The Franco-Congolese Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, after his explosive performance, at the first round of the Australian Open, when he sent Andy Murray (Men’s no.9) packing,...
UNESCO D-G condemns murder of Filipino journalist
The Director-General of UNESCO Koïchiro Matsuura, Frid ay condemned the killing of Fernando Lintuan, a Filipino radio broadcaster in Davao, on Mindanao Island, 24...
Police stop Kenyan opposition protest rally
Kenyan riot police Wednesday stopped an attempt by opposition supporters here from holding their peaceful rally in protest against the disputed presidential elections.
PANA reports...
Tech for food 2008, International forum, beginning of registration online
You are now able to register for Tech For Food 2008 by clicking here. As the places are limited, we advise you to register...
Kenya : Parliament work is opened and Koffi Annan is visiting the country under high protection
Police was everywhere Tuesday in the city centre of Nairobi, capital of Kenya, before the ex-Secretary General for United of Nations, Koffi Annan and...
Sudan rebuffs troop offer from Sweden, Norway
Sweden and Norway have dropped plans to send about 400 troops to the U.N. peacekeeping force in Darfur because of opposition from Sudan's government,...