Often the hardest thing is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn – David Russel
Posted in Africa on Sep 25th, 2009
An online petition has been launched demanding that the African Union moves its human rights commission headquarters from Gambia after President Yahya Jammeh threatened to kill human rights activists. During a televised speech earlier this week Jammeh accused human rights defenders of being saboteurs and vowed to kill them and their associates. He also spoke […]
Posted in Africa on Sep 23rd, 2009
The hunger crisis affecting millions of people across East Africa is set to intensify due to conflict, displacement and erratic rain, aid agencies warn. Ongoing drought already means up to 20 million people in Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and Djibouti will need food assistance until at least December, Save The Children said yesterday. The United Nation’s […]
Posted in Africa on Sep 22nd, 2009
A white South African male, Brandon Huntley, 31, has been granted refugee status in Canada because of alleged violent persecution he faced from black South Africans. Huntley claimed he was persecuted as a white man in South Africa, that he had been the victim of seven attempted robberies and that he had been called a ‘white […]
Posted in Africa on Sep 21st, 2009
Dutch oil trader Trafigura has agreed to pay 1,546 US dollars to each of the 31,000 Africans who claim they were affected by the company’s dumping of toxic waste in Ivory Coast in 2006. A joint statement released yesterday by both parties’ lawyers said there was no proven link between the waste and the subsequent […]
Posted in Africa on Sep 21st, 2009
District 9, the South African sci-thriller about Xenophobia and social segregation clearly paints a picture of Nigerians as prostitutes and criminals. The film co-written and directed by Africaner born Neil Bloomkamp, tells of othe story f a group of Aliens marooned in Jo’burg, South Africa, where their spaceship became stranded after a command module separated from […]
Posted in Africa on Sep 18th, 2009
More than 200 million women worldwide want contraceptives, but don’t have access to them, according to an editorial published in the British medical journal, Lancet. That results in 76 million unintended pregnancies every year.
If those women had access to free condoms or other birth control methods, that could slow rates of population growth, possibly easing […]
Posted in Africa on Sep 18th, 2009
Dutch oil trader Trafigura is set to pay out millions of dollars to 31,000 Africans affected by toxic waste dumped in Ivory Coast in 2006. At least 15 people died, 69 were hospitalized and more than 100,000 others fell ill after 500 tonnes of toxic waste from a cargo ship were dumped in landfills around […]
Posted in Africa on Sep 16th, 2009
The creation of a new single body to defend the rights of women and promote gender equality worldwide was approved by the United Nations General Assembly on Monday. The resolution will merge four existing agencies: the UN Development Fund for Women, the Division for the Advancement of Women, the Office of the Special Adviser on […]
Posted in Africa on Sep 2nd, 2009
President Mwai Kibaki has appointed Retired Justice Aaron Ringera for a second five-year mandate as head of Kenya’s anti-corruption agency. The decision came under attack yesterday, with critics arguing Ringera had failed to prosecute senior officials or tackle corruption. Lawyer and former MP Paul Muite alleged the move was illegal as the president had made […]
Posted in Africa on Sep 1st, 2009
Witnesses say an attempt on Sunday by 67 of Niger’s former MPs to reinstate parliament ended in a violent conflict with the local police. Security forces are also alleged to have used tear gas on protestors in the country’s capital Niamey. The political situation in Niger has been deteriorating since President Mamadou Tandja dissolved the […]
