February 12, 2008
Kenya: Research Points to Election Fraud
Karuti Kanyinga, a senior research fellow at the Institute for Development Studies of the University of Nairobi, explains in these excerpts from an AllAfrica interview why analysts… Read more »
Kenya: Rights Activist Pinpoints Reforms to Resolve Crisis
L. Muthoni Wanyeki, executive director of the Kenya Human Rights Commission, recently spoke to AllAfrica about a wide range of aspects of the crisis that erupted over Kenya’s… Read more »
Kenya: Rights Activist Pushes for UN Action
The chairman of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights, Maina Kiai, has been one of the country's leading independent voices since the beginning of the crisis sparked by… Read more »
Liberia: Prosecution Witness Camara Continues Testimony
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February 11, 2008
Liberia: Prosecution Witness Testfies Concerning Taylor's Presence in Libya
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February 08, 2008
Liberia: Cross-Examination of RUF Radio Operator Concludes
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February 07, 2008
Liberia: Kamara Testifies Concerning RUF Attacks on Civilians and Freetown
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February 06, 2008
Africa: Ten Journalists Killed in Deadly Year
Ten journalists were killed in Africa in 2007, making it the deadliest year for journalists working in Africa since 1999, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Read more »
Liberia: Former RUF Radio Operator Testifies Concerning RUF Operations
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February 05, 2008
Liberia: Prosecution Completes Redirect Examination of TF1-371
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January 31, 2008
Kenya: Moi is Not Our Saviour
Kenyan blogger Daudi Were reflects on events in Nairobi. Read more »
January 25, 2008
Liberia: Defense Highlights Inconsistencies in Abu Keita's Statements to the Prosecution
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January 24, 2008
Liberia: Prosecution Witness Abu Keita Connects Taylor to RUF Abuses
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January 23, 2008
Liberia: Taylor Trial Hears Evidence of History, Child Soldiers
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January 18, 2008
Liberia: Dr. Ellis Details the History of Country's Conflict
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January 17, 2008
Liberia: Taylor Trial Examination of Witness Stephen Ellis Begins
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January 16, 2008
Liberia: Taylor Trial Witness Testifies On 'Operation No Living Thing'
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January 15, 2008
Liberia: Defense Completes Cross-Examination of Sherif
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January 11, 2008
Liberia: Cross-Examination of Prosecution Linkage Witness Begins
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January 10, 2008
Liberia: Emotions Run High As TRC Hearings Begin
The dust is finally settling after the brutality that characterized the 14 years of civil upheaval that overtook Liberia in the 1990s. The war took the lives of about 500,000… Read more »
January 09, 2008
Liberia: Sierra Leonean Crime Base Witness Called as Prosecution's Second Witness
Expert legal monitors blogging for the website www.charlestaylortrial.org report on the second day of the war crimes trial. Read more »
January 08, 2008
Liberia: Diamond Industry Expert Called as First Prosecution Witness
The following entry is reprinted from CharlesTaylorTrial.org, a site covering the war crimes trial of former president Charles Taylor. Read more »
January 07, 2008
Liberia: Charles Taylor Trial Gets Under Way
The war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor finally got under way at The Hague in the Netherlands on Monday. Read more »
Liberia: Citizens Lose Interest in Taylor Trial
The trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, is set to resume on Monday. But Boakai Fofana of allAfrica's Monrovia… Read more »
December 14, 2007
Africa: Leaders Divided on Rights, Says Amnesty Chief
A group of international figures gathered in Cape Town this week to launch a new global campaign for human rights. One of them was Irene Khan, who as secretary-general of Amnesty… Read more »