The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights have released a report expressing deep concern over the escalating cases of organised violence and torture and the increasing intimidation of medical personnel.

Speaking out against the recent stepped up violence between the Sudanese Government's forces and a rebel group, the United Nations and African Union (AU) envoys spearheading efforts to reach a durable political settlement in the war-ravaged Darfur region today underscored the civilian suffering resulting from the fighting.

Wanted for genocide in his country, fugitive Felicien Kabuga has been said to be in Kenya on several occassions. Last week, it emerged that he has business ventures here. How the whole world could be after him without success.

Hunger is giving a brutal edge to the alleged work of militias implementing Operation Mavhoterapapi (Who did you vote for?), a campaign launched by President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF government in the wake of the ruling party's loss of its parliamentary majority for the first time since independence in 1980.

POLICE yesterday arrested the editor of the Standard, Davison Maruziva, on allegations of publishing statements deemed prejudicial to the state and contempt of court after publishing an opinion article by MDC leader Arthur Mutambara lambasting a ruling of the High Court last month on the delayed release of the March 29 presidential election results.

Tanzanian police in collaboration with the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) security have launched a manhunt for a controversial protected witness who mysteriously disappeared on Tuesday from a safe house in Arusha.

Since the last report on the 25th of April, our members have reported a dramatic escalation in incidents of organised violence and torture with the number of victims documented in the post election period now standing at over 900.

For several years after war erupted in Côte d'Ivoire in 2002, children were recruited to fight on all sides of the conflict.

Maria is living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Antiretroviral medicines (ARVs) are now more widely available and are supposed to make her life better.

When an older man raised his hand to speak on the third day of a gender workshop in Hoedspruit, a rural community in northern South Africa, Bafana Khumalo's heart sank. As the facilitator of the workshop, which specifically targeted men, he had already touched on concepts of manhood and how gender inequality contributed to the sky-rocketing HIV rates in South Africa.

The President and Secretary General of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions will spend the weekend in police custody, after the state deliberately delayed their appearance in court Friday.

The Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) report that there is continued targeting of their accredited observers, in Mashonaland Central and Mashonaland East.

Zimbabwean police arrested a top newspaper editor today and released a photographer jailed since Monday, according to local journalists and news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists remains concerned about the well-being of a leading media lawyer following reports of his hospitalization after his arrest on Wednesday.

SUSPECTED war veterans and Zanu PF loyalists have seized over 20 commercial farms in Mashonaland West in the past fortnight, amid reports that a countrywide new wave of farm invasions was looming ahead of a presidential election run-off between President Robert Mugabe and the MDC's Morgan Tsvangirai.

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe will need more than violence to win the anticipated presidential election run-off against MDC's Morgan Tsvangirai, political analysts have said.

REPORTS of violence continue to pour in with claims by the opposition that at least 20 innocent villagers have been butchered to death in the past month.

A GROUP of former South African army generals is in the country to investigate reports of political violence which is reported to have escalated after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission last week released the results of the March 29 presidential poll.

THERE is growing impatience among politicians, single issue lobbyists and civic organisations over the unresolved March 29 election impasse and the impending presidential poll re-run, which have sparked a fresh wave of violence against innocent civilians in many parts of rural Zimbabwe.

Prosecution witness at the trial of former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, broke down in tears in the middle of her testimony in court on Wednesday as she gave a graphic description of yet more rebel atrocities.

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the government's obsessive hounding of journalists after the arrests of a Reuters photographer and the editor of one of the few remaining independent Harare-based publications in the past four days brought the number of journalists detained since the 29 March general elections to 12.

NINE workers yesterday sustained serious burns following an explosion at Konkola Copper Mine (KCM) Nkana smelter in Kitwe.

A 14-year-old girl tearfully narrated in a Livingstone magistrates court how she was defiled in an open pre-school building.

Johann Swinnen, Belgium Ambassador to Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, deplored Thursday before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) the lack of serious investigations into the attack against the plane of President Juvénal Habyarimana on April 6, 1994 which triggered the genocide.

The semi-traditional Gacaca Court of Kigali district has sentenced to 30 years two persons implicated in the murder of a family of seven during the 1994 genocide, reports Hirondelle Agency.

The editor of the weekly independent newspaper, The Standard, was arrested Thursday for publishing an article deemed to be prejudicial to the State and faces contempt of court charges.