May 10 2008
Burundi’s security forces have detained illegally about 200 people suspected of helping the country’s last active rebel group, a human rights group says. The detainees included Senator Benoit Ntaganzwa and his wife, the Burundian...
May 3 2008
Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change said today an official presidential election result showing its leader Morgan Tsvangirai had failed to garner enough votes for an outright victory was scandalous. Mr Tsvangirai won 47.9 per...
May 2 2008
Zimbabwe’s opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, defeated President Robert Mugabe in the presidential elections, but failed to win enough votes to secure outright victory, the Zimbabwean Election Commission was reported to have announced last...
Apr 14 2008
When it comes to shooting criminals, it is not just the trigger of a gun but the trigger of past trauma, too, that plays a role. This view is part of the fiery debate that has gripped the public since Deputy Minister of Safety and Security Susan...
Apr 14 2008
One recent afternoon in this booming mining town, in a provincial office crammed with files, something unusual was happening for a country once ruled by the famously kleptocratic dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. A mid-level government administrator named...
Apr 12 2008
Yoweri Museveni has disclosed that the current soaring oil and food prices were predicted by former Cuban President Fidel Castro, 10 years ago. The President who completed a two-day State visit to India yesterday told Indian businessmen: “Castro who...
Apr 5 2008
For all the claims these days that the age of impunity has ended for the world’s despots, Robert Mugabe will prove that international justice has its limits - and he’s beyond them. Despite the horrors of his regime since it began targeting...