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  • Landmark SAfrica-EU summit overshadowed by Zimbabwe crisis 24 Jul 2008 03:30 GMT
    ... key issues would include the situation in African flashpoints in Chad and Sudan's violence-riven Darfur region, the ongoing world trade ... Mugabe as a tyrant who has stifled human rights and democracy and led the once-model economy ...

  • Village raided in Sudan 24 Jul 2008 02:17 GMT
    ... withdrawal of the two armies. The southern Sudan People's Liberation Army said a village 10 kilometres ... the body monitoring the north-south ceasefire. A Human Rights Watch report released this week said that ... The north-south peace deal in 2005 ended Africa's longest civil war, shared power and wealth, ...

  • Zimbabwe rivals to start talks today 24 Jul 2008 02:16 GMT
    ... rivals opened preliminary talks on Tuesday, South African President Thabo Mbeki's spokesman said, but he declined ... The MDC has accused Mugabe of violating human rights and rigging elections. The European Union on ... said at a joint news conference with Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga at Downing Street. ...

  • Mengo arrests; the Police applying double standards 24 Jul 2008 01:55 GMT
    ... on July 18 that the Police in Uganda have accumulated, in the last seven years, ... they deserve. The practice of politics in Africa may be defined by one word - dissimulation. ... was her son. Where are the child human rights activists? This is child slavery and the ...

  • Defiant Bashir dances in Darfur under war crimes cloud 24 Jul 2008 00:35 GMT
    ... NYALA, Sudan: Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir danced before thousands ... set up special courts to try alleged human rights abuses in Darfur that will be monitored ... will be monitored by the United Nations, African Union and Arab League. "They agreed to ...

  • Despite complaints, international justice is advancing 24 Jul 2008 00:35 GMT
    ... of the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for crimes against ... Just a week before the indictment, seven African Union and United Nations peacekeepers were killed ... Open Society Institute and a founder of Human Rights Watch, is the author most recently of ...

  • Somali minister urges peace force for his lawless country 24 Jul 2008 00:35 GMT
    ... members on this point. The Horn of Africa country has been in the throes of a ... Ould Abdallah warned those who have violated human rights in Somalia that they cannot hide and ... It is currently made up of 2,600 Ugandan and Burundian troops. Another option, Ould Abdallah ...

  • 11:24am Village raided in Sudan 24 Jul 2008 00:24 GMT
    ... withdrawal of the two armies. The southern Sudan People's Liberation Army said a village 10 kilometres ... the body monitoring the north-south ceasefire. A Human Rights Watch report released this week said that ... The north-south peace deal in 2005 ended Africa's longest civil war, shared power and wealth, ...

  • Testimony begins in Guantanamo trial 22 Jul 2008 23:32 GMT
    ... flee after attacks on US embassies in East Africa in 1998 and the September 11 attacks. ... tribunal system has been heavily criticized by human rights groups and defense lawyers, some of them ...

  • 09:20am Testimony begins in Guantanamo trial 22 Jul 2008 23:32 GMT
    ... flee after attacks on US embassies in East Africa in 1998 and the September 11 attacks. ... tribunal system has been heavily criticized by human rights groups and defense lawyers, some of them ...

  • Africa: Leaders Have Failed Test 22 Jul 2008 23:32 GMT
    ... African leaders have remained largely silent since the ... for genocide and crimes against humanity against Sudanese president Hassan al-Bashir by the International Criminal ... their colleagues to account for dictatorship and human rights abuses. The best we get is embarrassed ...

  • Official: aid workers might not be safe in Sudan if ICC issues arrest warrant for 22 Jul 2008 22:51 GMT
    ... NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A senior Sudanese official warned on Tuesday that aid workers ... an attempt by European powers to recolonize Africa under the cloak of promoting human rights. «This ...

  • Africa: Leaders Have Failed Test [editorial] 22 Jul 2008 22:16 GMT
    ... African leaders have remained largely silent since the ... for genocide and crimes against humanity against Sudanese president Hassan al-Bashir by the International Criminal ... their colleagues to account for dictatorship and human rights abuses. The best we get is embarrassed ...

  • Leaders Have Failed Test 22 Jul 2008 22:16 GMT
    ... African leaders have remained largely silent since the ... for genocide and crimes against humanity against Sudanese president Hassan al-Bashir by the International Criminal ... their colleagues to account for dictatorship and human rights abuses. The best we get is embarrassed ...

  • EAC Signs New Trade Deal With the U.S. 22 Jul 2008 21:49 GMT
    ... The United States and the East African Community signed a trade agreement last week that ... amounted to $265 million in 2007, with Kenya accounting for about 90 per cent of ...

  • Sudan says aid workers might not be safe if arrest warrant issued for president 22 Jul 2008 21:30 GMT
    ... Sudan says aid workers might not be safe ... if arrest warrant issued for president NAIROBI, Kenya - A senior Sudanese official is warning ... an attempt by European powers to recolonize Africa under the cloak of promoting human rights. "This ...

  • East Africa: EAC Signs New Trade Deal With the U.S. 22 Jul 2008 21:30 GMT
    ... The United States and the East African Community signed a trade agreement last week that ... amounted to $265 million in 2007, with Kenya accounting for about 90 per cent of ...

  • Africa: Sudanese Ambassador Lauds Eritrea's Support in Sudanese Issue 22 Jul 2008 20:31 GMT
    ... The Sudanese Ambassador to Eritrea, Mr. Salah Mohammed Al-Hassan, ... Al-Bashir and other top Sudanese officials for 'human rights violations' in the Darfur region is illegal ...

  • Sudan agrees to try Darfur rights violators at home 22 Jul 2008 20:30 GMT
    ... Sudan has agreed to try anyone it suspects of ... courts and will allow the United Nations, African Union and Arab League to follow the ... continuing its consideration of the violations of human rights and the crimes committed in Darfur," Youssef, ...

  • Let's Stage a Non-Intervention 22 Jul 2008 19:21 GMT
    ... Times argues for China, Russia and South Africa to against Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe and "If ... it not possible to "impose" democracy and human rights from above - but that it actually ... are quite happy to be allies with Uganda and Rwanda whose authoritarianism and militarism is ...

  • Sudan: Tens of Thousands of Civilians Still Unable to Return to Abeyei 22 Jul 2008 18:18 GMT
    ... of the town was destroyed in fighting, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. ... mid-May, most of them deliberately killed by Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) or allied militia. Due ... and under what circumstances," said Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. "Without a ...

  • Sudan: Restore Security in Abyei 22 Jul 2008 18:17 GMT
    ... A Human Rights Watch investigation in June 2008 documented the ... mid-May, most of them deliberately killed by Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) or allied militia. Due ... and under what circumstances,” said Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “Without a ...

  • Tens of Thousands of Civilians Still Unable to Return to Abeyei 22 Jul 2008 18:16 GMT
    ... of the town was destroyed in fighting, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. ... mid-May, most of them deliberately killed by Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) or allied militia. Due ... and under what circumstances," said Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. "Without a ...

  • Sudan:: Tens of Thousands of Civilians Still Unable to Return to Abeyei 22 Jul 2008 18:16 GMT
    ... of the town was destroyed in fighting, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. ... mid-May, most of them deliberately killed by Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) or allied militia. Due ... and under what circumstances," said Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. "Without a ...

  • Sudan: Tens of Thousands of Civilians Still Unable to Return to Abeyei [press release] 22 Jul 2008 18:16 GMT
    ... of the town was destroyed in fighting, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. ... mid-May, most of them deliberately killed by Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) or allied militia. Due ... and under what circumstances," said Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. "Without a ...


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