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Congo Kinshasa
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DRC projects attract $60m

afrol News, 8 May - A total of US $60 million has been allocated for 163 United Nations humanitarian projects in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

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Congo Kinshasa
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ICC unseals DRC warrant

afrol News, 29 April - The International Criminal Court [ICC] has unsealed an arrest warrant against Mr Bosco Ntanganda, a former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Forces Patriotiques pour la Libération du Congo [FPLC], and current alleged Chief of Staff of the Congrès national pour la défense du people [CNDP] armed group, active in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo [DRC].

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Kenya
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Kenya army tortures civilians

afrol News, 28 April - The Nairobi-based Independent Medico-Legal Unit [IMLU] has accused Kenyan army officers of torturing hundreds of people between March and April.

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Sudan
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ICC cries for Sudan arrests

afrol News, 28 April - Sudanese government has been blamed for its reluctance to hand over its indicted citizens to the International Criminal Court [ICC] in The Hague.

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Liberia
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Striking "Liberian refugees" await repatriation

afrol News, 25 April - The government of Ghana has been given the green light to repatriate 23 “Liberian refugees” who were arrested at Buduburam and detained at the Ghana Immigration Service.

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» 17.04.2008 - UN Congo mission lauded
» 09.04.2008 - 'Rebels beheaded my mother'
» 07.04.2008 - Niger sued over slavery laws
» 04.04.2008 - Editors condemn death threats
» 03.04.2008 - UN details Liberia violations
» 01.04.2008 - SA probes racism in schools
» 20.03.2008 - 'Ghana mistreats refugees'
» 14.03.2008 - Makeba meets rape survivors
» 13.03.2008 - Genocide priest jailed for life
» 29.02.2008 - Racist victims feel betrayed
» 26.02.2008 - AU to diffuse Kenya deadlock
» 08.02.2008 - DRC: UN hails warlord's arrest
» 28.01.2008 - Ghana shuns labour standard
» 23.01.2008 - Prayer meeting ends in clash
» 21.01.2008 - ICC investigates CAR crimes
» 15.01.2008 - Nigerian traffickers nabbed
» 04.01.2008 - UNMIL sex abuse declines
» 27.12.2007 - Chad kidnappers convicted
» 20.12.2007 - Marriage scourge exposed
» 19.12.2007 - Africa trafficking study soon
» 19.11.2007 - Congo sexual abuse probed
» 19.11.2007 - Somalis launch public gay site
» 14.11.2007 - Students protest Chad abduction
» 02.11.2007 - Chad abduction embarases France
» 02.11.2007 - Amnesty seeks justice for Sierra Leone's conflict survivors
» 24.10.2007 - Rwanda tops gender equity
» 23.10.2007 - Mozambican parliament ignores domestic violence
» 19.10.2007 - Cry for Ugandan gays
» 10.10.2007 - Joburg Pride magnetises thousands
» 03.09.2007 - Row over South African minister’s health turns sour
» 30.08.2007 - MALI: Child marriage a neglected problem
» 29.08.2007 - CAR crisis displaces 291,000
» 09.08.2007 - South African lesbians targeted for murder
» 08.08.2007 - Southern Africa: Gender activists urge leaders to bite bullet
» 03.08.2007 - Nigeria: Gunmen freed speaker’s mother
» 28.06.2007 - "Justice denied for Sudanese rape victims"
» 13.06.2007 - Lesotho: fertile ground for human traffickers
» 31.05.2007 - Harsh penalties for human trafficking Cameroon couple
» 03.05.2007 - Battle over sexual offences bill in Mauritius
» 19.04.2007 - Soldiers ‘execute, rape civilians in Congo’
» 21.03.2007 - Death by stoning hangs over Sudanese women
» 08.03.2007 - South Africa launches action plan against gender violence
» 12.01.2007 - SAA battles sex scandal
» 19.12.2006 - Child sex booms with tourism in Kenya - UN
» 12.12.2006 - South Africa remains lesbian-bashing society
» 29.11.2006 - Many to blame for war crimes against Congo's women
» 28.11.2006 - Nigeria women raped by police and army
» 22.11.2006 - Survivors of gender violence lead Jo'burg march
» 17.11.2006 - Veil controversy grips Egypt
» 16.11.2006 - Egyptian minors sold for prostitution under guise of marriage
» 10.11.2006 - Mauritian women sick of rape, incest, violence
» 07.11.2006 - Gambian women cannot negotiate safe sex
» 07.06.2006 - Lesotho intensifies efforts to help rape survivors
» 08.03.2006 - "Violence against women in Zimbabwe increases"
» 17.06.2005 - Egypt police protected men attacking women journalists
» 31.05.2005 - Half of Nigeria's women experience domestic violence
» 13.04.2005 - "Women are a lucrative commodity in Equatorial Guinea," NGO
» 22.03.2005 - Burundi's women still live in fear of violence
» 09.02.2005 - No sex for Congo peacekeepers, Kofi Annan
» 11.01.2005 - Sexist stereotypes cause "rural exodus" in Algeria
» 17.12.2004 - Somaliland teenage "spy" convicted in "unfair trial"
» 17.12.2004 - UN suspends soldiers in Burundi over sex abuse
» 14.12.2004 - Still impunity for rape in Liberia
» 01.12.2004 - Women's vulnerability focused on Botswana AIDS Day
» 19.05.2004 - The Kenyan girlchild: "An endangered species"
» 06.04.2004 - Rwandan women surviving genocide now face AIDS
» 08.03.2004 - African AIDS widows left without inheritance
» 24.02.2004 - Rape becoming widespread in Burundi
» 21.01.2004 - Liberian fighters "still rape and loot"
» 14.01.2004 - Nigerian girl to be flogged for being raped
» 01.12.2003 - Gender violence fuels African AIDS crisis
» 28.11.2003 - Lutheran women fight violence in Namibia
» 24.11.2003 - Women's liberation practiced in Tanzanian camp
» 25.09.2003 - Amina Lawal's death sentence quashed at last
» 21.07.2003 - African women granted more rights
» 02.07.2003 - UK forces accused of 650 rapes in Kenya
» 25.06.2003 - Hundred young girls abducted in Uganda

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