Mozambican civil society organizations are planning to intensify their actions to prevent violence against women and children by increasing the period of advocacy for such cases from a mere 16 day campaign to 365 days a year.

Churches in South Africa announced Monday that Zimbabwe has no president because the run-off election featuring Robert Mugabe alone was a sham.

Several officials are attending an upgrading seminar, jointly promoted by the Interior Ministry and the International Organisation for Migrations (IOM), aimed at outlining strategies for the fight against the traffic of human beings.

The chairperson of the Lwini Social Solidarity Fund, Ana Paula dos Santos Monday here defended the approval by the National Assembly (Parliament) of the Law on Disabled People.

Martin Gurajena*, like many other opposition activists forced to flee Zimbabwe's ongoing political violence, has a difficult choice to make: when will it be safe to go home?

We received reports from Chiredzi and Zaka constituencies that ZANU PF officials and militia have continued to assault innocent villagers, accusing them of voting for the MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai in the Presidential runoff elections.

Prof Githu Muigai has been appointed a judge in the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, adding impetus to Kenya's quest for better representation in regional and continental organisations.

A group of visiting Canadian parliamentarians on Friday paid a visit to the Murambi Genocide Memorial site to honour the over 50,000 victims buried there.

Danjuma Michael writes on the effort by the Katsina State Government in sponsoring a bill in the legislature for the protection of the children who are assumed to be future leaders. The bill takes into consideration the people's culture

Fatima (not her real name) thought her son was dead until she saw his name in the newspaper. He was among about 90 children listed as participants in a rebel attack near the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, in May, which reportedly

Two lawyers from East Africa have been elected to the proposed African Court of Human and People's Rights to be based in Arusha, Tanzania.

THE parliamentary food forum has asked the Government to provide funds for the anti-female circumcision campaign. Addressing journalists at Parliament on Friday, Bukwo Woman MP Everline Chelangat urged the Government to establish vocational institutions for girls to fight the custom.

IN the scorching afternoon sunshine, Philis Yapchemusto stands in the compound of a tiny building that houses the headquarters of Reproductive, Educative and Community Health (REACH) programme.

At the end of May 2008, Human Rights Watch calculated the tally of misery and abuse in Zimbabwe since its 29 March elections: at least 36 dead; hundreds tortured; thousands beaten; and tens of thousands deprived of food or displaced.

International condemnation of Robert Mugabe's controversial re-election as president of Zimbabwe has now turned to criticism of foreign businesses operating in the country, which are seen as helping to prop up the regime.

If the Southern African Development Community (SADC) "wished to be taken seriously" it would have to declare Robert Mugabe's presidential claim illegitimate, a regional analyst told IRIN.

Ex-rebels in northern Cote d'Ivoire have launched three violent riots in the north of the country in the last month, and human rights experts say the incidence of violent crime is also high.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the African Union Chairperson today appointed an experienced official from Burkina Faso as the new joint AU-UN Chief Mediator for Darfur as they seek new momentum in their efforts to resolve the five-year conflict.