Often the hardest thing is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn – David Russel
Posted in Africa on Nov 6th, 2009
The International Criminal Court (ICC)’s chief prosecutor announced yesterday that he would conduct a formal investigation into the 2008 post-election violence in Kenya. Luis Moreno-Ocampo, said that crimes against humanity had been committed in the post-election period that needed to be investigated. Kenyan Human Rights activists welcomed Mr Moreno-Ocampo’s move. Few, if any, culprits have […]
Posted in Africa on Nov 6th, 2009
South Africa has been forced to delay its deadline for farmland redistribution because of the global economic crisis. Land reform official, Thozi Gwanya, said a target to redistribute a third of the country’s farmland from white farmers to the black majority has been pushed back from 2014 to 2025. Mr Gwanya blamed the delay on […]
Posted in Africa on Nov 4th, 2009
Sierra Leone has launched a satellite link-up to connect doctors around the country to their colleagues in India. The system enables doctors in Sierra Leone to consult doctors in India and benefit from data analysis in better-equipped Indian hospitals. For now the telemedicine link-up has been launched in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown. But national hospital […]
Posted in Africa on Nov 3rd, 2009
Zimbabwe faces having its diamonds suspended from international trading because of alleged human rights abuses by government security forces in the country’s diamond fields. Members of the Kimberly Process – the international body that regulates trade in rough diamonds – begin a four-day meeting today in Namibia where they will consider whether to suspend the […]
Posted in Africa on Oct 30th, 2009
The United Kingdom’s Home Office has declared it plans to resume the enforced return of failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers to their home country. No date has been set yet, but immigration minister Phil Woolas said the returns would start “as and when the political situation develops”. Around 28,000 Zimbabweans have sought asylum in the UK […]
Posted in Africa on Oct 30th, 2009
A three-month investigation by the Liberian government has found an American rubber company guilty of polluting local water sources. The Firestone Rubber Plantation Company is located 48km south-east of the capital Monrovia and has been found to be contaminating creeks in the region with high levels of orthophosphate, according to the investigation’s final report. Tens […]
Posted in Africa on Oct 29th, 2009
A top British scientist has warned that global warming could cause severe floods, droughts and other extreme weather conditions in Africa. Professor Sir Gordon Conway, the outgoing chief scientist at the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID), says African communities need to develop more resilient lifestyles and livelihoods in order to face unpredictable effects and […]
Posted in Africa on Oct 28th, 2009
The son of ex-French President Francois Mitterrand and an ex-government minister have been convicted for links to illegal arms trafficking to Angola during a civil war in the 1990s. The two men appeared for sentencing in a Paris court yesterday. Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, who was African affairs adviser to his father at the time, was fined […]
Posted in Africa on Oct 27th, 2009
Uganda has said it will start registering all Somali visitors and refugees entering the country after Somali militants threatened to attack the capital Kampala. Islamist rebel group al-Shabab has vowed to bomb the capitals of Uganda and Burundi because their soldiers are supporting the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia. The AU troops are backing […]
Posted in Africa on Oct 27th, 2009
An international human rights group has accused the Kenyan government of helping to recruit Somali refugees in Kenya to join the armed forces of Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government. New York-based Human Rights Watch claim government-backed recruiters are approaching Somali men and boys in the Dadaab refugee camp as well as Kenyans from nearby towns. Top […]
