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Egyptian authorities ignore four court orders calling for release of Blogger
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) condemned the Egyptian Interior Ministry for refusing to act on a release warrant issued on 14...
Ugandan officials say anti-homosexual law will be passed
Groups of Christians today demonstrated in Uganda's capital Kampala against first world donor countries which are against the anti-homosexual bill which was recently tabled...
Uganda anti-homosexual bill: Christians threaten MPs
Christians in Uganda are organizing nationwide demonstrations and fasting to protest US President Barack Obama and growing international opposition to a proposed anti-homosexuality bill.
They...
Liberia’s shady diamond deals and free war criminals
The Liberian government despite its post-conflict progress, has not frozen assets benefiting or owned by war criminals, the UN panel of experts monitoring Liberia...
International Criminal Court: Justice or racial double standards?
The indictment by the International Criminal Court of Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed by government forces...
Sudan: Omar al-Bashir still a very wanted man
Sudan's president Mr. Omar al-Bashir is still not welcomed by western nations for his alleged role in the Darfur genocide. France has relocated 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...
Uganda: A history of politically motivated violence, intimidation, bribery
Uganda’s government should reform the country’s election laws to improve accountability for election-related crimes and reduce the risk of violence in the upcoming 2011...
Thabo Mbeki stands accused for South African health disaster
A small but vocal political party in South Africa has joined calls for former president Thabo Mbeki to be held accountable for his role...
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...
Charles Taylor the man who ‘forgot’ he killed thousands
Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor, the former President of Liberia is the first Head of State currently on trial at the International Criminal Court in...
Ethiopian Federal court yet to hear coup plotters’ sentence recommendations
The Ethiopian Federal High Court this week passed guilty verdicts against 27 defendants charged with plotting to kill senior officials and overthrow the government....
Sudan-Turkey: Fear keeps Al-Bashir out of Muslim summit
Sudan’s president, Mr. Omar Al-Bashir has expressed distrust in Turkey, as the International Criminal Court (ICC) wanted leader declines to attend a Muslim summit...
Sudan: Memorizing Quran or Bible as a prerequisite for prisoner pardon questioned
Some members of the interim National Assembly are opposed over a law which requires long-term convicts to memorize either the Holy Quran or the...
Zimbabwe: Food crisis looms as Agricultural budget dips and land invasions continue
Another crippling hunger is looming in the southern Africa country with reports that a majority of the country’s large-scale producing White commercial farmers are...
AngolaGate: France-Angola: Charles Pasqua reveals secrets from the very top
Charles Pasqua is very angry. Sentenced to a one year prison term Tuesday in the Angolagate trial, known as one of the major international...
Controversy in the UK over Ivory Coast toxic disaster
In 2006, more than 30,000 Ivorians fell victim to high levels of poisonous gasses from a lethal toxic waste which was dumped by an...
Sierra Leone: UN-backed Court Closed after administering Civil War justice
Leaders of the major warring faction during the Sierra Leonean civil war have been handed lengthy jail sentences, bringing a seven year trial of...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe too busy with soccer to bother with MDC boycott
Reacting through his spokesperson President Robert Mugabe has responded
to MDC disengagement saying he is too busy with students and soccer
to address the MDC move.
Mugabe...
Zimbabwe: Roy Bennett trial postponed
The trial of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) treasurer Roy Bennett’s would not take off today after the state conceded at the High Court...
Roy Bennett, a Zimbabwean accused
Zimbabwe's high court late on Friday ordered the release of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's aide Roy Bennett whose detention forced the premiers MDC party...
Guinea: EU calls for justice, ECOWAS warns of dictatorship
The European Union is demanding that Guinean military junta, Capt Moussa Dadis Camara, stand in court for trials of oppression and crimes against humanity....
Zambia: President Banda backs acquittal of ex-President Chiluba over corruption
Zambian leader Rupiah Banda has disclosed that the unpopular acquittal of former president Frederick Chiluba saved him from misery as he had...
Zimbabwe: MDC sends Zanu-PF strong warning over Roy Bennett imprisonment
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has today called for an emergency crisis meeting for his party to map a way forward after the imprisonment of...
Gabon: Court confirms Ali Bongo as late President Omar Bongo’s successor
After a contentious election marathon, the election of Ali Bongo as president of the Republic of Gabon was confirmed Monday night by the country’s...
Zimbabwe: Mugabe crony, Mutasa, faces arrest
One of Robert Mugabe’s loyal lieutenants and Minister of State for Presidential Affairs Didymus Mutasa was on Tuesday issued with a warrant of arrest...
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...
South Africa: Kidnapped, Raped and Stabbed for being gay…
The verdict is long overdue: Themba Mvubu will spend the rest of his life in prison. Accused of the abduction, rape and murder of...