The fate of Guinea hangs in the balance following the shooting of the country's military ruler, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara. There are fears that the fractured security forces could split further and trigger serious violence.
While waiting in one of those interminable queues at a South African state hospital, Jullian Nwadu was asked when she was going back to Zimbabwe. "In December," she answered, welcoming what seemed like a stranger's attempt at making friendly conversation. "When you go, you mustn't come back."
THE situation at the Central Methodist Church in downtown Johannesburg, where as many as 3000 mainly Zimbabwean immigrants are living in appalling conditions, is untenable.
A decision by the government to ban the veil in some academic institutions has reignited debate about personal rights.
Zimbabwe's ruling political party has been accused of launching a "widespread and systematic campaign of rape and sexual terror" aimed at intimidating opponents and voters in the troubled African nation, according to a new report released here.
Somalia's parliament speaker Sheikh Aden Mohammed Nur Madobe has accused the rebel movements of commiting gross human right violation against the innocent civilians in war-torn Somalia.
PARLIAMENT yesterday passed a Bill prohibiting female genital mutilation (FGM).
THE retired bishop of Mityana diocese, Danstan Bukenya, has clashed with anti-child labour activists, saying they were preventing children from engaging in work-related activities.
Child mothers have accused the former commanders of the Lord's Resistance Army, with whom they produced children, of abandoning their families.
The Archbishop of the Church of Rwanda, Rt. Rev. Emmanuela Kolini has strongly criticized and condemned the decision of an Anglican diocese in the United States of America to elect an openly gay clergy as the bishop of Diocese of Los Angeles.
Ugandan civil society groups marked international Human Rights Day on Thursday by calling for the withdrawal of what they call the “discriminative and oppressive” Anti-Homosexuality Bill from the country’s Parliament.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is seeking "urgent" action from Spain and Morocco over a Saharawi activist whose condition is rapidly deteriorating after she went on hunger strike last month when Morocco denied her entry into her native Western Sahara, subject of a long-running dispute between the two countries.
A leading advocacy group has this week announced it has enough evidence to warrant the prosecution of Robert Mugabe and members of his ZANU PF party for crimes against humanity.
Amnesty International, a global human rights watchdog, yesterday accused the Nigerian Police of being responsible for hundreds of extra-judicial executions, other unlawful killings and enforced disappearances every year.
As the National Gacaca Courts Service prepares to close shop in February next year, a senior official has said that up to 2,261 cases still stand in the way to its winding up.
"When the tenth man finished raping me they said they were going to rape my daughter. I cried out but I could not even stand up at this time...they raped my daughter (while) I was there and I couldn't do anything to stop them. My daughter was five years old..."
Members and supporters of President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party committed widespread, systematic rape in 2008 to terrorize the political opposition, said AIDS-Free World in “Electing to Rape: Sexual Terror in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe,” a report released today. These crimes against humanity have received little public attention and the government has made no effort to hold the ...
Justice and Constitutional affairs Minister Mutula Kilonzo wants the International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Louis Moreno-Ocampo to start investigations into last year's post election violence by December 12.
The Center for Law and Human Rights, a legal entity engaged in the monitoring, education and investigation of Human rights violations across the country, has welcomed the final and edited report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
Last week Thursday, December 3, 2009 was marked worldwide as International Day for People Living with Disabilities. Over one hundred countries met and ratified the United Nations (UN) convention on persons living with disabilities in 2007. As one of the signatories, Nigeria in that year adopted the convention, although it has not been domesticated yet.
Botswana's government has poured cold water on claims from ZANU PF that it is hosting so-called 'pirate radio' stations from its territory. Presidential spokesman Dr Jeff Ramsey issued a statement noting 'the re-appearance of allegations in a section of the Zimbabwe media' but said Botswana did not 'harbour any such radio stations.'
ZANU PF has moved with speed to bar journalists from the independent media from covering their congress, which is fast degenerating into a fiasco following an open rebellion against Robert Mugabe.
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says despite the efforts being made in addressing discrimination, racism and violation of human rights, the three scourges remain a serious challenge for the global community.
Message by Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma
Some media commentators have questioned whether the enormous tallies of killings attributed to Idi Amin and his eight-year despotic rule were really factual.
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