With the support of MONUC's Gender Office, the DRC Gender, Family and Children Ministry from 28 June to 1 July 2008 trained the heads of the provincial Gender ministries and civil society activists from all the DRC's 11 provinces on
Mr Nimi Walson-Jack is the former Secretary General of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). He spoke on a number of issues, including the Freedom of Information Bill, which has suffered series of set backs before the House of Representatives. He
THE Bagisu believe one's voyage to manhood begins with imbalu ( cultural circumcision). The Gisu community participates in the ritual which involves walking around the circumcision candidate's village, visiting cultural sites to appease the gods, singing and dancing to folk
On Thursday 22 May, Cape Town changed forever. The xenophobic violence that started 1,200 kilometres away in Gauteng spread to Du Noon township. On Friday the TAC offices began to get reports of violence on trains and Somali shops being
After the African Union issued a statement so tepid that it might as well as have come from a high-school student conference, low expectations have further diminished. The African Union can now be seen in the same light as its
MORE than 60 Somalis gave themselves up to the Zimbabwean police this week, seeking asylum after sneaking into the country and yesterday they were handed over to the Department of Social Welfare for assistance.
MORE than 300 MDC supporters claiming to be victims of political violence yesterday approached the United States (US) embassy in Harare looking for food and shelter.
The barbaric acts of violence against foreign African nationals in South Africa over the past month appears to have drawn to a close. However, thousands remain displaced and face the daunting task of putting their lives back together. Government indecisiveness,
Justice Momodou Darboe, a journalist with The Point, a Banjul-based privately-owned independent daily newspaper, was violently attacked by an armed man on July 1, 2008.
Ethiopian media practitioners forwarded their disappointment on Wednesday after the House finally endorsed the county's media law seen by media fractionates and international press watch dogs as contravening freedom of expression and international human rights.
On Saturday 12 July 2008, following a call by CIVICUS: World Alliance For Citizen Participation, Amnesty International and the Global Call for Action Against Poverty (GCAP), citizens of Africa will unite to express their solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe
AMBUYA Motsi (not her real name), a widow living in the high density suburb of Glen Norah, Harare, last Friday could not believe what she had just done -- voting for embattled President Robert Mugabe in a presidential run-off election
Civil society organisations (CSOs) have mixed feelings about the outcomes of the latest African Union Summit, which concluded in the Egyptian resort of Sharm El Sheikh earlier this week.
The United Nations Security Council is discussing what the United States calls "targeted sanctions" aimed at the Zimbabwe government and its top officials.
Yesterday, the trial of former president Charles Taylor resumed following days of break with chief prosecution witness co-named TF1-567 currently on the stand alleging that the accused had ordered former RUF head Foday Sankoh to send more men to areas
A couple from Germany who were kidnapped in the Gulf of Aden by Somali pirates last month are being treated well, but the husband has diabetes and is running low on medicines, a human rights defender who visited the hostages
Annette* is a small, lively woman in her early sixties. Married to an abusive husband -- who once threw boiling water on her, landing her in hospital -- she was not repeating the story with her alcoholic and drug-addicted son.
