30 June 08 - Release from Human Rights Watch – African states should impose sanctions against Robert Mugabe and his illegitimate government in Zimbabwe after the sham presidential runoff, Human Rights Watch said today [June 29]. The situation in Zimbabwe, where government violence against opposition (...) Read

26 June 08 - Press release from UNDP — The Government of Sudan, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), signed today, Wednesday 25 June, an agreement to launch the reintegration component of the Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration programme for Sudan which was witnessed by the (...) Read

25 June 08 - Tonde Mponda, who is a staunch supporter of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), thought quickly when he found his battered unregistered car had been clamped by the municipal police because it did not have a parking (...) Read

24 June 08 - The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that journalists in Zimbabwe face the harshest press crackdown in memory as they’ve tried to report on a brutally violent presidential runoff campaign, veteran reporters told the Committee to Protect Journalists in a report released today, Bad (...) Read

24 June 08 - Yvonne Chipowera endured 16 hours of beatings, rape and being urinated on, all because of her support for Zimbabwe’s opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Read

24 June 08 - Two years after the African Union mandated Senegal to conduct the trial of Chadian dictator Hissenè Habré, who is accused of thousands of political murders during his eight-year reign, the prosecution remains in limbo, six human rights groups complained in a joint statement Monday 22 (...) Read

3 June 08 - The arrest of the former Congolese vice President, Jean Pierre Bemba, is the first strong move by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Philip Grant, director of the Geneva NGO, TRIAL (Track Impunity Always), talks about whether it is a turning point in the Court’s work and in the field (...) Read

27 May 08 - Upwards of 40 people are said to have been killed and some 15,000 displaced in South Africa during more than a week of violence directed mainly against foreigners. Prince Mashele, head of the Crime, Justice and Politics Programme at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), shares his (...) Read

23 May 08 - A report on post-election violence by the Solidarity Peace Trust (SPT), a church-based organisation focused on human rights abuses in Zimbabwe describes a climate of brutal intimidation in Zimbabwe following March 29 elections Read

14 May 08 - Gangs of armed men have set up roadblocks in and around Somalia’s coastal city of Kismayo, 500km south of Mogadishu, causing serious insecurity. Read