Uganda
HIV-AIDS | Law | Policy | Policy | Policy
"Uganda AIDS prevention threatened"
afrol News, 6 November - Over 50 Ugandan and international organisations are warning government that the "repressive" HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Bill, soon to be voted on in the Kampala parliament, could destroy Uganda's earlier successes in fighting back the pandemic.
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Central African Republic
Crime | People | War & Peace | War Crimes
"Send Central African leaders to ICC"
afrol News, 5 November - Only days after the former President of the Central African Republic, Ange-Félix Patassé, returned home after a 6-year exile, human rights groups demand he be sent directly to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes. Also the current President is accused of grave war crimes.
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Rwanda
Ethnic | Law | War Crimes
Rwandan tea baron jailed over genocide
afrol News, 5 November - The former head of the government office that controlled the Rwandan tea industry was today sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty by a UN tribunal over his role in the country's 1994 genocide. He is to have assisted slaughtering more than 1,000 Tutsis.
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Mauritania
Law | Policy | Socio-economic
Slavery still persists in Mauritania
afrol News, 4 November - Despite strong efforts by the toppled democratic government of Mauritania, slavery has yet to be rooted out in the country, a UN report documents. Under the new government, little progress is made to fight slavery.
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Africa | Gambia
Expression | Policy
"Strip Gambia off AU human rights body"
afrol News, 3 November - The world's major association of human rights organisations has called on the African Union (AU) to consider moving the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR) from its headquarters in The Gambia, as it is now impossible for human rights groups to participate in sessions there.
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Nigeria
Law | Poverty | Socio-economic
Panic as Nigeria govt demolishes houses
afrol News, 2 November - Human rights groups warn that hundreds of families in Nigeria's River State may be left homeless tomorrow morning if plans to demolish their homes to make way for a commercial development go ahead. "Panic" has spread in the community.
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Africa
Democracy - Dictatorship | Diplomacy | Law | Policy | War & Peace
Africa discusses cooperation with ICC
afrol News, 2 November - The African Union (AU) has decided that member states should not cooperate with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the arrest of Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir. Was this right? The discussion is going on all over Africa.
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Uganda
Affairs | Crime | Law | People | Terrorism | Violence | War & Peace
Panic hits Kampala after bomb scare
afrol News, 30 October - A bomb scare in the Uganda’s capital has brought the town to a stand still as security agencies began a search for an alleged bomb plot. The serious search comes nearly a week after Somali’s radical Islamists group Al Shabaab threatened terror attacks on the city. Read more
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Burundi | Tanzania
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Economy | Ethnic | People | Policy | Policy | Refugees - Displaced | Social Services | Violence | War & Peace
Last Burundian refugees repatriated
afrol News, 30 October - The last batch of some 400 Burundian refugees returned to their homeland after 37 years, ending one of the world’s longest-running refugee sagas, the United Nations has announced. Read more
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Côte d'Ivoire
Affairs | Affairs | Crime | Diplomacy | Economy | Elections | Law | People | Policy | Policy | Trade | War & Peace
Security Council extends sanctions on Ivory Coast
afrol News, 30 October - The UN security Council has extended the arms and diamond embargo on Ivory Coast for another year until 31 October 2010. The ban also extends travel restrictions targeting Ivorian political figures and a freeze on their foreign assets. Read more
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Sudan
Affairs | Cooperation | Events | Finance | People | Poverty | Refugees - Displaced | Social Services | Socio-economic | Trade | War & Peace
Assembly shop for efficient stoves launched in Darfur
afrol News, 30 October - An assembly facility for fuel-efficient stoves has been launched in El Fasher, the capital of the Darfur region, in Sudan. The Berkeley, California-based Darfur Stoves Project (DSP), in partnership with Oxfam America and the Sudanese organisation, Sustainable Action Group (SAG), are an alliance behind the project. Read more
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Guinea
Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Diplomacy | Elections | Law | People | Violence | War & Peace
Security Council calls for trying of Guinea's massacre
afrol News, 29 October - The Security Council has made another call on the Guinean authorities to charge and try the perpetrators of last month’s deadly crackdown on unarmed demonstrators that reportedly killed 150 people and wounded hundreds more, warning that situation might pose a risk to regional peace. Read more
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Uganda
Affairs | Crime | Expression | Law | People | Persecution | Policy | Policy | Rights | Violence
Remove death penalty on gays - Clergy
afrol News, 29 October - The Ugandan Clergy have appealed to the government to scrape the death penalty in the Anti-homosexuality Bill 2009 currently being debated in parliament. The clergy said the government should rather opt life imprisonment. Read more
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Angola | Congo Kinshasa
Affairs | Affairs | Cooperation | Diplomacy | Ethnic | Law | People | Policy | Policy | Refugees - Displaced | Social Services | Socio-economic | War & Peace
UN steps in to help in Angola/DRC refugee saga
afrol News, 29 October - The UN agencies are preparing to airlift tents and an emergency response team to help scores of thousands of Angolans expelled from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as each country continues to drive out its neighbour’s nationals. Read more
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Western Sahara
Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Diplomacy | Law | People | Policy | Refugees - Displaced | Social Services | War & Peace
Abdelaziz calls on UN to protect Sahrawi
afrol News, 29 October - The Sahrawi President, Mohamed Abdelaziz has urged the UN to assume its full responsibility to protect and secure release of Sahrawi activists detained in Moroccan prisons. Read more
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Sudan
Affairs | Crime | Democracy - Dictatorship | Law | People | Violence | War & Peace | War Crimes
Darfurian rebel died in detention, AI argues
afrol News, 29 October - International rights group, Amnesty International, has said a Darfur rebel member sentenced to death for taking part in an attack on the capital, died from ill-treatment while in custody in a Sudanese prison. Read more
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Angola
Affairs | Affairs | Corruption | Crime | Diplomacy | Law | People | Policy | Trade | Violence | War & Peace
Angola slams French ruling on arms deal
afrol News, 28 October - The Angolan government has lashed at the French court ruling that convicted the son of ex-French President Francois Mitterrand and an ex-government minister for their roles in illegal arms sales to Angola. Read more
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Zimbabwe
Affairs | Democracy - Dictatorship | Diplomacy | Law | People | Policy | Violence | War & Peace
Zimbabwe turns away from UN human rights expert
afrol News, 28 October - The Zimbabwean government has today announced the shocking last minute withdrawal of its invitation for a visit by the United Nations independent expert on torture, who was already en route to the country, citing consultations between the Government of National Unity and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Read more
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South Africa
Affairs | Crime | Ethnic | Law | People | Policy
SA racism case back in court
afrol News, 28 October - The racism case against four University of the Free State (UFS) students is expected to get back in court following consultations today in the Free State city of Bloemfontein. Read more
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Gabon
Affairs | Corruption | Crime | Finance | Law | People | Poverty | Refugees - Displaced | Socio-economic | Trade
Gabon rejects nearly 300 migrants
afrol News, 27 October - A Ghanaian registered ship which was intercepted last week with nearly three hundred would-be migrants from Benin en route Gabon has been escorted out of Gabon’s territorial waters and sent back to Benin. Read more
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» 27.10.2009 - FAO commences work on international land-tenure governance guidelines
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