The right to truth, justice and reparation for countless victims of human rights violations committed during Colombia's long-running armed conflict has again been gravely undermined following Congressional approval of a law which will grant de factoamnesties to 19,000 supposedly demobilized

Jeff Radebe intends reintroducing a controversial Mbeki-era Bill aimed at transforming the judiciary and notably the administration of courts.

Maria Sharapova shrugged off her shock Wimbledon second round defeat on Wednesday by insisting she can regain her membership of the superpower club.

Somali pirates have once again delayed Seacom's cable installation plans, shifting the switch-on date to late July.

Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe will take the lead in championing the fight against poverty, President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday.

Ministers will have to sign performance contracts with Jacob Zuma, Performance, Monitoring and Evaluation Minister Collins Chabane said on Wednesday.

24 June 2009

To mark the 150th anniversary of the International Red Cross Movement IRIN spoke with humanitarian and legal experts about how conflict has changed in the 21st century and to what degree the Geneva Conventions and their additional protocols stand up

South Africa's International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane believes the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed in 2005 in Sudan could still be realised.

The United States Tuesday urged the government of Sudan and former rebels in the south to re-invigorate their 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), as 30 Sudanese political leaders met with 170 observers from 32 countries and international organisations here to

Former military ruler General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida was the moving force behind the crisis that recently engulfed the Niger State House of Assembly because he had a grouse against the state governor Dr. Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu, Special Assistant to the

TOP militant leaders, yesterday, opted to accept the Federal Government's offer of amnesty, but by proxy, for fear of arrest.

Leaders from northern and southern Sudan are currently meeting in Washington against the backdrop of a series of bloody clashes between rival ethnic groups in the south in recent months.

ZIMBABWE'S diamond trade will no doubt feature high on the agenda of the three-day Intersessional Meeting of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), which began yesterday, with the opening remarks of chairperson Bernard Esau setting the tone for this.

Human rights activists and opposition politicians yesterday reacted angrily to the 14-year jail sentence handed out to Special Police Constable Ramathan Magara by Justice Wilson Kwesiga for two counts of manslaughter.

Own up, apologise and pay up for the sins committed by your predecessors.

The death of a boda boda taxi operator, Mr Peter Ngigi, 30, on Saturday in the latest orgy of violence in Kirinyaga district brings back tension and fears of a fresh wave of violence in the volatile area.

Transit riders in Greater Victoria will not be allowed to carry any alcohol on board buses this Canada Day, according to the Victoria Regional Transit Commission, but a civil liberties group say the new rule is unfair.

Metro Vancouver is looking for public input into their plan to build six new waste-to-energy plants around the Lower Mainland to deal with the growing problem of too much garbage and not enough landfill space.

RCMP have handed out B.C.'s first ticket to a driver for lighting up with a child in his car. Police pulled over the man at a roadblock in Langley on Sunday while he was smoking with a 13-year-old in the