Ethiopian Govt Bans More NGOs
Updated: Fri 22 Feb, 10:57 am
Authorities have banned three civic organizations under a controversial 2009 law that prohibits NGOs from engaging in human rights advocacy or policy-related activities and caps foreign funding at 10 … read more »
'Ethiopia Terror Charges on Clerics Unfair'
Updated: Fri 5 Apr, 04:47 am
Human Rights Watch has expressed concern following the prosecution of 29 Muslim protesters who have been charged with plotting acts of "terrorism" under Ethiopia's controversial anti-terrorism law. read more »
Illegal Liberian Timber Found in France
Updated: Mon 4 Mar, 08:19 am
Liberian timber worth thousands of euros has been found at a French port less than three weeks before a new EU law prohibiting the import of illegal timber comes into force, according to Global … read more »
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A health development organisation is hoping to save two million lives by 2015 by tackling diarrhoea and pneumonia, the leading killers of children globally. Read more »
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Nigerian authorities must not use the state of emergency imposed in the north of the country as an excuse to commit human rights violations, Amnesty International urged today as ... Read more »
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Many of the 1,429 families resettled to make way for mining in Tete province, have had their access to food, water and work disrupted, a Human Rights Watch report shows. Read more »
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Amade Oueremi, a militia leader who supported President Alassane Ouattara during the post-election violence, has been arrested on suspicion of participating in a massacre. Read more »
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While commending the government for publishing a landmark resource audit which reveals significant violations of the country's laws in the awarding of contracts, the environmental ... Read more »
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Following a meeting of its members, the Press Union of Liberia has lifted the media blackout placed on the office of Presdient Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, saying "we will not go at the ... Read more »
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Human Rights Watch has condemned police raid of the Daily Monitor newspaper and radio station over an article published alleging the succession plot of President Yoweri Museveni's ... Read more »
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The African Union Summit is currently under way in Addis Ababa, marking 50 years since the formation of its forerunner the Organisation of African Unity. Read more »
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A report by the US-based Enough Project has accused the government of sponsoring violence in the war-torn western region in order to control North Darfur's gold mines. Read more »
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Calls for transparency and good governance in Africa assumed new prominence at the 2013 World Economic Forum meeting on Africa. Read more »
