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- UN denies complicity in Congo human rights abuses after leaked report 1 Dec 2009 07:25 GMT
... UN denies complicity in Congo human rights abuses after leaked report The United Nations ... report charges that government officials in several African countries were working hand-in-hand with the rebels. The ... throughout the region, particularly through Uganda and Burundi and on to the United Arab Emirates. ...
- Florida's Eckerd College to Launch Yearlong Africa Initiative in January 2010 1 Dec 2009 12:40 GMT
... of Students (ECOS) student government and Eckerd's African Interest Group have been at the helm of ... explore issues related to war crimes and human rights, environment and human health, foreign policy and ... on the ; conflict minerals in eastern Congo; and child soldiers in northern Uganda. and ...
- Commonwealth admits Rwanda 1 Dec 2009 11:14 GMT
... The Commonwealth has admitted Rwanda as its 54th member. The African country was admitted at the Commonwealth Heads ... A report in July by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) urged Rwanda to tackle a ...
- 'Crushing re-election win' for E.Guinea president 1 Dec 2009 11:31 GMT
... Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, in power since ... Nguema, who has run the oil-rich west African nation with an iron hand for three ... in this year's election. The New York-based Human Rights Watch has cast doubt on the credibility ...
- Nguema wins re-election 1 Dec 2009 12:36 GMT
... Malabo - Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, in power since ... Nguema, who has run the oil-rich west African nation with an iron hand for three ... in this year's election. The New York-based Human Rights Watch has cast doubt on the credibility ...
- To be equals 1 Dec 2009 00:52 GMT
... On a blustery beach in South Africa's coastal city of Durban, Dumisani Gumbi is going ... huge. It has had to balance the human rights of individual soldiers with the collective rights ... the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Burundi. It is an important source of revenue ...
- Look, no danger 1 Dec 2009 09:35 GMT
... South African troops with HIV win biggest battle On a blustery ... huge. It has had to balance the human rights of individual soldiers with the collective rights ... the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Burundi. It is an important source of revenue ...
- SA troops win biggest battle 1 Dec 2009 12:12 GMT
... On a blustery beach in South Africa's coastal city of Durban, Dumisani Gumbi is going ... huge. It has had to balance the human rights of individual soldiers with the collective rights ... the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Burundi. It is an important source of revenue ...
- Graft a Challenge to EA Federation - Kiraso 1 Dec 2009 10:13 GMT
... Market pact, an official of the East African Community (EAC) has said. The EAC deputy secretary ... Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi, Mwai Kibaki of Kenya and Jakaya Kikwete ... pushing for recognition, promotion and protection of human rights in accordance with the provisions of the ...
- The Commonwealth: Wider still and weaker? 1 Dec 2009 01:42 GMT
... the Trinidad summit is expected to admit Rwanda, the first member with a colonial culture ... ex-Portuguese Mozambique gained entry. Welcoming a French-speaking African state to the Commonwealth is a much ... bite, as a promoter of democracy and human rights, or else it might as well shut ...
- Zambia Should Act On Genocide Suspects - NGO 1 Dec 2009 12:39 GMT
... haven. Joseph Chilengi, the Executive Director of Africa Internally Displaced Persons' Voice (Africa IDP Voice) ... ongoing training workshop on equal status and human rights of Women in East Africa in Mombasa, ... work and pray that what happened in Rwanda does not repeat itself anywhere else on ...
- IDP convention - now the hard work begins 1 Dec 2009 10:31 GMT
... to IDPs. Joiner called for international support. "Africa cannot do it alone; that is why we ... 4.9 million IDPs, the Democratic Republic of Congo, with at least one million, and Somalia, ... Refugee Convention," the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, said. "Until now [IDPs] have ...
- Wan Condemns Journalists Attacks 1 Dec 2009 13:02 GMT
... report stated. The report said that across Africa, Heads of State and their friends continue to ... Other 'terrorist' governments are Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, and Kenya. All these countries were ... policies, use information deemed classified or unveil human rights abuses. Police raids, abductions and imprisonments remain ...
- Rwanda - Kagame's Human Rights Record Faces Scrutiny 30 Nov 2009 11:13 GMT
... by ex-British colonies, both its membership application and a number of recent books on Central Africa are focusing new attention on the current government's human rights record. In a debate which somewhat echoes those over justice and human rights in ...
- Opposition 'will not accept' Equatorial Guinea election 30 Nov 2009 10:18 GMT
... run by President Obiang Nguema's interior minister. Human rights groups say the vote was unlikely to ... There are some election monitors from the African Union and the Economic Community of Central African States, but they have to follow a ...
- Counting Underway in Equatorial Guinea Presidential Election 30 Nov 2009 17:43 GMT
... people," says Arvind Ganesan, a researcher for Human Rights Watch on Equatorial Guinea Incumbent Teodoro Obiang ... low Sunday in the oil-rich yet dirt-poor central African nation. Four candidates are running against President Obiang, ...
- President wins controversial Equatorial Guinea vote 30 Nov 2009 16:02 GMT
... -- The president of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea has been re-elected in a vote that human rights groups criticized as unfair. President Theodoro Obiang ... 96.7 percent of the vote, the west African country's information ministry said on its Web ...
- Doubts over Equatorial Guinea vote 30 Nov 2009 16:25 GMT
... -- The president of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea has been re-elected in a vote that human rights groups criticized as unfair. President Theodoro Obiang ... 96.7 percent of the vote, the west African country's information ministry said on its Web ...
- Equatorial Guinea president wins criticized election 30 Nov 2009 19:20 GMT
... -- The president of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea has been re-elected in a vote that human rights groups criticized as unfair. President Theodoro Obiang ... 96.7 percent of the vote, the west African country's information ministry said on its Web ...
- Equatorial Guinea election criticized 30 Nov 2009 21:30 GMT
... -- The president of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea has been re-elected in a vote that human rights groups criticized as unfair. President Theodoro Obiang ... 96.7 percent of the vote, the west African country's information ministry said on its Web ...
- Equatorial Guinea ruler extends 30-year term 30 Nov 2009 20:24 GMT
... on car travel was imposed last week. Human rights groups describe the government of Equatorial Guinea as one of the in the world. ... the 650,000 inhabitants of the tiny west African state. Human Rights Watch says the country's ...
- EUROPE/ITALY - International Day Against the Death Penalty: 1,150 cities around the world to abolish the death penalty and respect for human rights 30 Nov 2009 13:31 GMT
... abolish the death penalty and respect for human rights Rome (Fides Service) - Today, November 30 ... Genoa ...) and in Slovenia (Ljubljana); in Africa: Burundi (Bujumbura, Ngozi), Chad (N'Djamena), Mozambique (Maputo), DR ...
- President Nguema of Equatorial Guinea on course to extend three-decade rule 30 Nov 2009 23:32 GMT
... on car travel was imposed last week. Human rights groups describe the government of Equatorial Guinea as one of the in the world. ... the 650,000 inhabitants of this tiny west African state. HRW says Obiang's rampant corruption drains ...
- Equatorial Guinea begins vote count 30 Nov 2009 05:53 GMT
... Critics have accused Obiang, who has ruled Equatorial Guinea since 1979, of attacking and harassing opposition ... a game," said Wenceslao Mansogo Alo, a human rights representative of the main opposition Convergence for ... in favour of dealings in the West African nation's oil and gas reserves. "We feel ...
- France and Rwanda restore diplomatic ties 30 Nov 2009 03:51 GMT
... three-year break on Sunday, straight after the central African nation finally joined the Commonwealth bloc and moved ... widely anticipated, despite objections voiced by some human rights groups that questioned whether the country met ...
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