Often the hardest thing is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn – David Russel
Posted in Africa on Jan 19th, 2010
Kenyan authorities have arrested a prominent Muslim activist in connection with violent protests in Nairobi on Friday. Al-Amin Kimathi, chairman of Kenya’s Muslim Human Rights Forum, was formally charged today with incitement to violence, along with seven other suspects. Kenyan police clashed on Friday with Muslim groups demonstrating against the government’s attempts to deport a […]
Posted in Africa on Jan 14th, 2010
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has described an internationally condemned anti-homosexuality draft law as a sensitive foreign policy issue which requires further consultation. Museveni spoke about the topic for the first time yesterday at the ruling National Resistance Movement party’s executive conference at State House in Entebbe. He called for more dialogue with European and American […]
Posted in Africa on Jan 14th, 2010
A 27 million US dollar programme by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in West Africa failed to combat child deaths, according to researchers. A Johns Hopkins University study published on Tuesday in the medical journal The Lancet found that children in regions not covered by UNICEF stood a better chance of surviving past age […]
Posted in Africa on Jan 12th, 2010
Chadian rebels are attacking and abusing villagers in western Sudan’s North Darfur region, according to residents and rights activists. Villagers and aid workers told the news agency Reuters yesterday that Chadian rebels have been raping, beating and looting residents since they moved to the area last December. At least five people have been killed and […]
Posted in Africa on Jan 12th, 2010
At least half of Somaliland’s population of three million people face food shortages following several months of drought. The director-general of the Ministry of Agriculture, Abdulkadir Jibril Tukale, told IRIN News that poor rainfall in 2009 had killed livestock and damaged harvests in the self-declared republic. Reports by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit […]
Posted in Africa on Jan 8th, 2010
Sex workers’ advocates have called for the decriminalisation of prostitution in South Africa as a preventive measure to contain the spread of HIV during this year’s World Cup. Up to 500,000 people are expected to visit the country during the football tournament, which begins in June. The director of the Cape Town-based Sex Worker Education […]
Posted in Africa on Jan 7th, 2010
Witnesses testifying to a government commission investigating the 2007 post-election violence in Kenya have reportedly been threatened and attacked. A BBC report published yesterday uncovered several local reports of intimidation. Some witnesses have reportedly been beaten and received death threats by text messages. They have been giving evidence to the Waki Commission, set up by […]
Posted in Africa on Jan 5th, 2010
A Malawian judge denied bail yesterday to two gay men charged with ‘unnatural practices between males’ and ‘gross public indecency‘. Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza were arrested ten days ago after getting engaged and could be sentenced to up to 14 years in prison. They are thought to be the first gay couple in Malawi […]
Posted in Africa on Dec 28th, 2009
President Umaru Yar’Adua to endorse the Supplementary Budget to be operated till next March, and will not sign another document to allow Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan act as President.
Yar’Adua signed the document on his sick bed in the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Tam David-West, professor of Virology and one time Minister of petroleum spoke […]
Posted in Africa on Dec 26th, 2009
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has been charged with attempting to destroy a Northwest Airlines jet. That Umar farouk is a Nigerian is no longer news, a fact many Nigerians claim is not true, but he is the 23-year-son of Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, a former First Bank Chairman, a former Minister and prominent banker recently retired from the […]
