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AFRICA: Proving Ground For International Criminal Court? By Miriam Mannak CAPE TOWN - The International Criminal Court (ICC) is using Africa as a guinea pig, and is too selective when it comes to arresting, indicting and prosecuting perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity. This was one of the opinions raised during a recent seminar in Cape Town organised by the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR). MORE >>
ZIMBABWE: Farmers Can't Afford to Leave Markets -- Literally By Tonderai Kwidini HARARE - It is a wintry Tuesday evening at one of the tobacco auction floors in the Zimbabwean capital Harare. A group of small-scale tobacco farmers are preparing food for the night. MORE >>
RIGHTS-MOROCCO: Firing Squads Silent - But Death Hovers By Abderrahim El Ouali CASABLANCA, Morocco - Morocco's death row prisoners -- some 150 inmates -- are living in sub-human, "life-threatening conditions", according to leading NGOs and rights activists. MORE >>
EQUATORIAL GUINEA: Human Rights Drowning in Oil By Mario de Queiroz LISBON - The oil interests of Angola, Brazil and Portugal could pave the way for former Spanish colony Equatorial Guinea to become the ninth member of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) two years from now, despite the country’s poor human rights record. MORE >>
POLITICS-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Ground-breaking Gender Protocol Signed By Zahira Kharsany JOHANNESBURG - Gender activists breathed a sigh of relief when a long-delayed gender protocol was signed at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit this weekend. Women bear the brunt of social injustice and problems on the African continent, ranging from access to clean water, poor health care, access to economic opportunities or adequate protection before the law. MORE >>
POLITICS-SOUTHERN AFRICA: SADC Summit Under Way By Zahira Kharsany JOHANNESBURG - A free trade agreement is one of the main points on the agenda at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit presently under way in Johannesburg, South Africa. The summit will also discuss political problems in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Lesotho and consider protocols on gender and poverty eradication. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT: Escaping the Poverty Trap By Mercedes Sayagues PRETORIA - What do they have in common -- the landless widow with a deaf son in Bangladesh, the 12-year-old miner in Kyrgyzstan, the Ugandan farming couple with 12 children and the South African domestic worker who loses her home when her husband dies and her job when she breaks a leg? They, and their children, are trapped in chronic poverty, even as their countries show economic growth. MORE >>
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Digging for Hope in Land Reform By Stephanie Nieuwoudt CAPE TOWN - Through the difficulties facing the land reform process in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Namibia, glimmers of hope are emerging. The challenge now is to seek lessons which enable newly settled farmers to create a livelihood. MORE >>
Q&A: Bashir Pushed, But Not Yet Into a Corner By Interview with Aymen Abdelaziz Salaama, expert on international criminal law CAIRO - Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno-Ocampo requested last month that the court's preliminary panel issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for crimes allegedly committed in Sudan's western Darfur region. MORE >>
HEALTH-UGANDA: Fight Against AIDS Faltering? By Joshua Kyalimpa KAMPALA - Uganda's approach to the fight against HIV/AIDS is under scrutiny by activists. The country has won international acclaim for its 20-year campaign against the AIDS pandemic, but the latest numbers lead some activists believe Uganda is now losing ground. MORE >>
SIERRA LEONE: Former Rebel Commanders Awaiting Judgment By Lansana Fofana FREETOWN - Final arguments in the lengthy trial of three former commanders of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) have ended in Freetown, making way for judgment which is expected by the end of this year. MORE >>
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