The Mozambican government pledged on Tuesday that it will continue to provide support for the tens of thousands of Mozambican citizens who have fled from anti-foreigner pogroms in South Africa.
On 11 May 2008, violence directed against foreign nationals broke out in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra. In the following two weeks, the xenophobia descended on seven of the country's nine provinces. Samuel Zona, originally from Zimbabwe, used to live
On 19 May 2008, Mam Sait Ceesay, a former editor of the pro-government "Daily Observer" newspaper, who has been standing trial on two counts of publishing and broadcasting false information, was acquitted and discharged of the offences by the Banjul
Amnesty International today challenged world leaders to apologize for six decades of human rights failure and re-commit themselves to deliver concrete improvements.
Amnesty International and its local partners are insisting that the Disarmament, demobilization, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (DDRR) of former fighters of the Liberian civil conflict is punctured with imbalance, in that former female fighters have been discriminated against.
REPORTS in the media in South Africa show that just under 60 per cent of the foreign qualifications evaluations done by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) between January and September last year were for skilled Zimbabweans seeking work in
On 19 May 2008, the National Communication Council (CNC), Guinea's media regulator, suspended "La Croisade", a privately-owned Conakry-based newspaper, for two months for publishing an alleged falsehood.
A military appeals court has sentenced to death three people for the killing of a UN journalist in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a trial riddled with "irregularities", say Journalist in Danger (JED), other IFEX members, rights groups and
RSF condemns the continuing use of violence against the independent press after 60,000 copies of "The Zimbabwean On Sunday" newspaper were intercepted and torched on the evening of 24 May 2008, and a freelance reporter was attacked and beaten in
An HIV-positive Ugandan woman's claim to stay in the UK has been rejected by the European Court of Human Rights. Her lawyers had argued that lack of medical care in Uganda would lead to her early death, and this would
The United Nations Security Council should address protection of civilians, justice, and human rights during its upcoming visit to Africa from June 1-10, 2008, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to the council. Human Rights Watch highlighted critical
The Save Darfur Coalition today hailed the historic joint statement by the three remaining U.S. presidential candidates stating their united resolve to end the Darfur genocide and bring peace and security to all Sudan.
THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the justice department met yesterday to investigate ways to prosecute 1384 people arrested in the wake of xenophobic violence over the past two weeks.
CONDITIONS for victims of xenophobic attacks at Onderstepoort, north of Pretoria, are bad and unhygienic, with one displaced immigrant likening the camp to "a pigsty".
Reporters Without Borders is worried by the fact that the authorities in the semi-autonomous northeastern region of Puntland are acting in an increasingly repressive manner towards the independent press.
Janet Camara (not her real name) told IRIN her mother urged her to leave school and become a sex worker in early 2008 when it became clear that food and fuel prices meant her mother could not support the family
Thousands of foreign residents of Cape Town have sought refuge at police stations, churches, community halls and in camps set up by municipal disaster management services.
Human rights group Amnesty International has challenged world leaders, 'to apologise for six decades of human rights failure and re-commit themselves to deliver concrete improvements.'
It is 5 a.m., but the winter night sky is yet to lighten over Johannesburg, South Africa; Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the international medical and humanitarian aid organisation, says the persistent drizzle and near freezing temperatures are contributing to respiratory
