Full Coverage: Africa
September 2005
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09/30/2005
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From: Oxfam America Related: [Agriculture] [Food] [Poverty] |
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09/30/2005
As the Interim Legislative Council of southern Sudan, which brings together many former military and political adversaries, was officially inaugurated in Juba, hundreds of thousands of Sudanese were trekking home in a previously unreported migration of displaced people.
Read moreFrom: Guardian Unlimited Related: [Sudan] [Refugees] [Peace] |
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09/30/2005
Fears are growing in Uganda that the country is once again heading for dictatorship and misrule.
Read moreRelated: [Uganda] [Democracy] |
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09/30/2005
Tunisia's continuing rights abuses make it an unsuitable place to hold this year's United Nations World Summit on the Information Society, concludes the latest report of the Tunisia Monitoring Group.
Read moreFrom: Index on Censorship Related: [Tunisia] [Information & Media] [Freedom of Expression] [United Nations] Image: Information summit logo © International Development Research Centre
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09/30/2005
Four South Africans have set up a social networking website to connect South Africans from all over the world.
Read moreRelated: [Southern Africa] [Communication] [ICT] |
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09/30/2005
UNESCO will support a workshop on preparing a master plan for the national press in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to be organised in Kinshasa from 18 to 21 January 2006 by the Ministry of Press and Information.
Read moreRelated: [West Africa] [Communication] [ICT] |
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09/30/2005
African states need to harness their collective power to bargain better deals on debt, aid, and trade reform, says Africa Action's Salih Booker.
Read moreFrom: Africa Action Related: [Development] [Aid] [MDGs] [Debt] [Trade] [Geopolitics] |
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09/29/2005
Medici Senza Frontiere (MSF) denuncia, in un rapporto pubblicato oggi, l'escalation di violenza nell'applicare le misure per il controllo dell'immigrazione che accompagna l'aumento del fenomeno migratorio al confine tra Marocco e Spagna. Dal 2003 MSF lavora in Marocco a un progetto sull'immigrazione. Dopo 27 mesi di attività, grazie alla raccolta di dettagliati dati medici e testimonianze, l'organizzazione constata che circa il 25% delle visite effettuate tra aprile 2003 e agosto 2005 non sono legate a patologie correlabili alle condizioni di vita precarie in cui vivono gli stranieri, ma ad atti di violenza diretta o indiretta. Su un numero totale di 10.232 consultazioni mediche, 2.544 sono infatti dovute ad episodi di violenza. Secondo le dichiarazioni degli stranieri visitati da MSF, il 44% dei casi di violenza è imputabile alle forze di polizia marocchine e ben il 18% alle forze dell'ordine spagnole.
Read moreFrom: MSF - Medici Senza Frontiere Related: [Spain] [Morocco] [Migration] [Health] [Human Rights] Image: Filo spinato di un centro di detenzione © Close Campsfield Campaign
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09/29/2005
Five days after their leaders were arrested and beaten, the Kalahari Bushmen today learnt that their organisation, First People of the Kalahari, had won the "Alternative Nobel Prize" for "resolute resistance against eviction from their ancestral lands, and for upholding the right to their traditional way of life."
Read moreThe organisation shares the Right Livelihood Award with activists from Canada, Malaysia and Mexico. From: Survival International Related: [Botswana] [Indigenous Rights] [Law] |
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09/29/2005
To mark this year's World Day Against the Death Penalty on October 10, Amnesty International is asking those African governments that have not abolished the death penalty to do so, and would like your help in appealing to heads of state.
Read moreFrom: Amnesty International - International Secretariat Related: [Human Rights] [Politics] [Activism] [Justice and Crime] Image: A woman in Katsina Central Prison, Nigeria, who is facing the death penalty for having an abortion. © Amnesty International - International Secretariat
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09/29/2005
Activists from Botswana, Canada, Malaysia and Mexico have won this year's Right Livelihood Award - the "alternative Nobel Peace Prize".
Read moreRelated: [Mexico] [Malaysia] [Canada] [Botswana] [Activism] |
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09/29/2005
Continuing violence in the Sudanese region of Darfur is hindering humanitarian efforts and creating a chaotic situation there, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Jan Egeland, warned this week.
Read moreFrom: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related: [Sudan] [Emergency Relief] [Conflict] [United Nations] |
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09/29/2005
President Robert Mugabe’s drive to win wealthy and uncritical friends in East Asia is doing little to rescue the economy.
Read moreFrom: Institute for War and Peace Reporting Related: [Zimbabwe] [Geopolitics] |
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09/29/2005
Four representatives of a grassroots organisation fighting for the rights of the Gana and Gwi Bushmen to return to their ancestral homeland have allegedly been beaten in custody since their arrest on 24 September.
Read moreFrom: Survival International Related: [Botswana] [Law] |
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09/29/2005
The Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) has launched a mobile summons printing and warrant faxing system that will enable traffic officers to re-issue summonses and produce warrant copies to traffic offenders on the road.
Read moreRelated: [Southern Africa] [ICT] [Governance] |
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09/29/2005
"Sudanin kriisien seuranta tulee varmasti korostumaan Suomen EU-puheenjohtajuuskaudella", sanoi Darfurista juuri palannut EU:n Sudanin erityisedustaja Pekka Haavisto. Rauhanneuvotteluja on jatkettu Afrikan unionin johdolla ja tuleviin neuvotteluihin osallistuvat kaikki konfliktin osapuolet. Tavoitteeksi sopimuksen syntymiselle on asetettu joulu-tammikuu, mitä Haavisto pitää optimistisena, muttei mahdottomana.
Read moreFrom: Ulkoministeriö Related: [Sudan] [Conflict Resolution] |
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09/29/2005
Amnesty International ammonisce che le tensioni politiche, militari ed etniche crescenti nella provincia del Kivu settentrionale nella Repubblica Democratica del Congo (Rdc) potrebbero condurre ad una ripresa del conflitto armato, che rischierebbe di destabilizzare il fragile processo di pace nel paese e di minare ulteriormente la già grave situazione umanitaria e dei diritti umani. Amnesty documenta inoltre come i diversi partiti del governo di transizione della Rdc abbiano contribuito al deterioramento della situazione nel Kivu settentrionale, inclusa l’infiammazione delle tensioni etniche, per far progredire i loro propri interessi politici, economici o militari.
Read moreFrom: Amnesty International - International Secretariat, Amnesty International (sezione italiana) Related: [Democratic Republic of the Congo] [Civil Rights] [Conflict Resolution] Image: Soldati ribelli in Congo
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09/29/2005
Ethiopian and Swedish terminologists will cooperate through an agreement recently reached between the National Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ethiopia (NATIE) and the Swedish Centre for Terminology (TNC).
Read moreRelated: [Ethiopia] [Capacity Building] [ICT] |
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09/28/2005
Political, military and ethnic tensions in the North-Kivu province of Congo threaten to provoke armed conflict that could destabilise the country’s fragile peace process.
Read moreFrom: Amnesty International - International Secretariat Related: [Democratic Republic of the Congo] [Conflict] |
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