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Iraqi Police Gunmen Kill at Least 12 in Baghdad Brothel
Civilians gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, ...
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Opposition Groups Call for Swaziland Election Boycott
King of Swaziland Mswati III (Front) and one of his 13 wives disembark from a plane after arriving at Katunayake International airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka, August 13, 2012. ...
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Transitional Justice Elusive in Arab Spring Nations
Egyptian riot police take up positions outside the building where former president Hosni Mubarak is being tried in connection with the killing of Arab Spring ...
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UN expanding mine action work in Mali
UNMAS Mali is training and working with local Malian military and police to clear landmines and unexploded ordinance in the northern part of the country. Photo: UNMAS/Marc ...
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South African Government Contribution to Fully Fund World Champ Swim Team
By Neville Smith, ZwemZaJOHANNESBURG, South Africa, May 22. SPORT Minister Fikile Mbalula has announced has announced that his department will offer financial assistance to the cash strapped national swimming federation Swimming South Africa.The R2,7million sponsorship will help the national team's campaign at the forthcoming FINA World Swimming Championships that will take place in ...
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Kenya Isiolo airport terminus construction starts
Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) says the construction, which is the second phase of the modernisation process, will take the airport to international standards. The first phase of the Isiolo International Airport was the construction of 1.4 kilometres runway that was completed last year. During the commissioning of the airport, retired President Kibaki said upgrading Isiolo airstrip to an ...
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Kenya Set up sexual violence recovery centres in every county TJRC recommends
sexual violence were not able to obtain the crucial medical attention (commonly known as PEP -- Post-Exposure Prophylaxis). PEP is required to be administered within 72 hours after the violation to prevent HIV/Aids and sexually transmitted infections as well as unwanted pregnancies. According ...
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Kenya Kiplagat team wants autonomous committee to implement report
report on Tuesday, observers say the harder part of the task has just begun: implementing the findings and recommendations therein to redress widespread human rights violations spanning nearly five ...
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Kenya TJRC reports asks President Uhuru to make apology on torture
In it's finding, the Commission stated that each of the three successive political regimes of the late President Jomo Kenyatta, retired presidents Daniel Moi and Mwai Kibaki failed to stop the practice. The report recommends that President Uhuru Kenyatta offers a public apology to all victims ...
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U.S. Non-Intervention In Syria Could Mirror Outcome In Congo
This week, we're exploring how lessons learned from U.S. intervention and non-intervention in foreign conflicts can inform policy decisions toward Syria today. Robert Siegel talks with Chester Crocker, formerly assistant secretary of state for African affairs in the Reagan administration, about how the U.S. has dealt with the decades-long conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo that ...
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Tunisia Salafist spokesman released on bail
Ansar al-Sharia spokesman Seifeddine Rais, detained in the Tunisian city of Kairouan at the weekend as police enforced a government ban on its annual congress, was released on bail on Wednesday, ...
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EU approves sending border security advisers to Libya
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments approved a mission on Wednesday to help Libya improve its border security in response to concerns that Islamist militants and weapons move freely across the North African country's ...
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Foreign Students in Oklahoma Confront Tornado Threat
WASHINGTON -- For many Americans in the nation’s center, tornadoes are a frightening fact of life. But for foreign students, usually from countries where tornadoes never occur, twisters can be an even scarier experience. Such was the case this past Monday when a tornado devastated the U.S. town of Moore, Oklahoma, killing at least 24 people and leaving thousands homeless. "It was ...
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Syrian Opposition Ponders Peace Meeting
ISTANBUL -- Syria's opposition coalition is to convene in Istanbul Thursday to decide whether to participate in talks next month on resolving the Syrian conflict that are being organized by Washington and Moscow. But the opposition has reservations about the role of the Syrian government in the planned talks. The Syrian National Coalition is due to meet over three days in Istanbul. The ...
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Afghanistans Helmand Province Sees Fresh Clashes Conflicting Claims
Fighting between Taliban militants and Afghan government forces has erupted in a highly-volatile corner of Helmand province. Afghan officials claimed victory Wednesday in southern Helmand province, saying they turned back a series of attacks by Taliban militants in Sangin. A spokesman for the provincial governor estimated the number of attackers at close to 1,000, including Arabs and Chechens ...
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Kenya Grief as two brothers shot dead amid security pledge
Kakamega County with the latest incident being in Butere where two brothers were shot dead by unknown assailants and no arrests have been made. Last Friday, two boda boda operators were shot by terror gang of about 20 in two separate incidents at Mfutu and Lunyu villages in Lugari constituency and several houses of suspected criminals burnt in retaliation. The script appears similar but tempo ...
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Kenya Smooth ride for motorists ahead as Southern by-pass works begin
The road to be constructed at Sh17 million under Kenya National Highway Authority (Kenha) will be used by heavy trucks from Mombasa transporting goods to Malaba and other regions. The vehicles will be diverted to the by-pass in a move to help ease traffic ...
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Kenya Mutulas case against City Hall finalised
Weldon Korir Wednesday ruled an enforcement notice issued by City Council to Mutula on May 24, 2007 directing him to pull down the boundary wall was ...
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Kenya Team cites wrangles poor funding as some of the obstacles it faced
Kenya: Internal wrangling, lack of political will, court cases and finally a report that indicts some within its ranks sum up the controversial tenure of ...
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Kenya TJRC wants findings on past probes released
These include report on the probe on 1992 raid on Bishop Gitari's house in Kirinyaga, probe into the conduct of the Artur Brothers and their associates (Kiruki Report) and the findings by a committee on harassment and/or discrimination of the Muslim community in the application of the law (Sharawe Report). It also wants the resettlement of Kenyan refugees in Uganda and fast-tracking of the ...
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Kenya Huge task in implementing report
The detailed report has made bold recommendations including prosecution of high-flying Government officials and politicians, reparation of victims of historical injustices as well as recovery of illegally acquired land. The 2000-page report adversely implicated the past three regimes for presiding over numerous gross violations of human rights including political assassination, massacre, ...
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Kenya Roads agency stands firm over weighbridge rules
Mariakani weighbridge on Tuesday. The truck drivers blocked Nairobi-Mombasa Road with their vehicles protesting enforcement of the new loading regulations. They were later allowed to pass without their vehicles being weighed. This was a reprieve to thousands of road users who had stuck at the station. The truck drivers had caused a huge traffic jam at the weighbridge protesting the move to ...
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Kenya Petitioner put in a corner over child out of wedlock
Siaya, Kenya : A petitioner challenging the election of Siaya Governor got more than he bargained for when his personal details were exposed at a Kisumu ...
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Kenya County sets the pace with Sh100m forensic lab
Collaborate with DPP He said he would work closely with the DPP in setting up the forensic unit and an investigations centre to boost security. He said his county government would strive to boost security to attract more investors. He urged the national Government to make Machakos a pilot county on security and prosecution matters. Poor and slow crime investigations have led to many prosecutions ...
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Kenya How victims recounted ordeals during commissions public hearings
In its report submitted to President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday, the commision details harrowing accounts of gross human rights violation, with women and children being the main targets of heinous crimes such as rape. The commission collected over 40,000 statements from Kenyans, each narrating their own ordeals. The commission documented that although some of the crimes suffered by the victims ...
Sudan Spotlight
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Sudan and the South
In January of 2011 the future of Sudan as a unified country will be decided. A referendum is due to be held in South Sudan that will decide whether the regional government of the area, which accounts for around a third of Sudan, should break away from the rest of the country and become a fully-independent nation.
South Sudan has a long history of being at odds with the rest of the country and this conflict of interests has been attributed in Western media to the fact that northern Sudan is primarily Muslim and Arab dominated, whereas South Sudan is made up of indigenous African cultures and ethnicities, this view has been reinforced by the ongoing violence in Darfur, a region of Sudan where a genocide is occurring and has led to President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan being charged with war crimes by the International Court at The Hague, a charge that the government in Khartoum categorically denies. Read more
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