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[allAfrica.com]
Cape Town -
Spurred by popular uprisings in North Africa, pressure to respect the human rights of all Africans is growing across the continent, but political leaders are standing in the way, says the internationally-respected lobby group, Amnesty International.
[Vanguard]
Piqued by recurring acoustic remarks, especially from pro south and southern leaders that northerners were lazy and the North had been sustained over the years by the South, northern leaders penultimate week said they could stand on their own if Nigeria broke up.
[The Star]
Top lawyers and investigators from the International Criminal Court have made a fresh visit to the 2007-08 post-election violence hot spots in Eldoret, Naivasha and Nakuru. The team is carrying out further investigations into the cases against four Kenyans faced with trial at the Hague. The team led by a lawyer from West Africa has interrogated more than 100 witnesses including victims and individuals mentioned in the Waki Commission report which probed the violence.
[Aswat Masriya]
Polling stations opened at 8 a.m. on Thursday for citizens to cast their votes on the second day of Egypt's first post-January 25 presidential election.
[SW Radio]
The drafting of a new constitution was said to be 'back on track' after COPAC reached 'common ground' on contentious issues during a meeting in Harare on Wednesday.
[Maka]
According to today's announcement by the Council of the Republic, elections in Angola will be held on August 31.
[Garowe Online]
Addis Ababa -
Signatories of the Mogadishu Roadmap who were meeting in Addis Ababa agreed to make amends to the e some of the issues that were differed upon by the respective leaders, Garowe Online reports.
[RSF]
Reporters Without Borders is dismayed to learn that Radio Shabelle journalist Ahmed Ado Anshur was gunned down on his way home today in Mogadishu, one of the world's 10 most dangerous places for the media. He was crossing Suq Bocle market in the district of Dharkenley when he was shot several times in the head and the chest by at least two unidentified gunmen, dying on the spot.
[IPS]
Cape Town -
The reality of Indian and Chinese investment in Africa is much more complex than the good cop, bad cop image of Asia's two emerging economic giants.
Gabon: UN Independent Rights Expert Urges Govt to Combat Trafficking of ChildrenThu, 24 May 2012 15:38:53 GMT
[UN News]
A United Nations independent human rights expert has urged Gabon to adopt measures to tackle trafficking in children from West and Central African States, and address traditional and cultural factors that exacerbate the problem.
[IRIN]
Sebha/Oubari/Murzuq -
Since Muammar Gaddafi's fall seven months ago, Libya's non-Arab minorities, including an estimated 250,000 Tuaregs, have begun more vehemently to insist on their rights.
[RFI]
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has dismissed allegations of voter manipulation after the first day of the country's landmark presidential election. Meantime, a spokesman for liberal Islamist candidate Abdel Moneim Aboul Foutouh told RFI that early exit polls on Wednesday put them just ahead of the Brotherhood's Mohamed Moursi and former prime minister Ahmed Shafiq.
[AlertNet]
United Nations negotiations are always complex, but Rio+20 has an unusually complicated agenda.
[IRIN]
Laikipia -
Most of those displaced by post-election violence mainly in Kenya's Rift Valley Province five years ago have been resettled, but those whose relatives were killed or who lost their property are seeking justice and further compensation.
[Aswat Masriya]
Latest developments of the second day of Egypt's presidential election:
Central Africa: Troops Hunting LRA Rebels Need More Support - Enough Project ReportThu, 24 May 2012 12:19:42 GMT
[ENOUGH]
Washington, DC -
U.S. military advisors sent to East and Central Africa to help end the Lord's Resistance Army conflict have had some success, but need more support in order for the mission to accomplish its goals of helping to apprehend LRA leader Joseph Kony and his top deputies and disband the group, according to a new Enough Project report.
[RNW Africa]
In this first article of a three-part story, our correspondent on the ground shares a slice of his daily life in post-coup Guinea-Bissau.
[iMaverick]
South Africa and Nigeria make a good show of playing nice. Our diplomats shake hands and smile for the cameras, our governments say all the right things, and neither country acknowledges what they think is really at stake: Africa's future and the chance to dominate it.
South Africa: Freedom of Expression Debate Laid Bare By Zuma Art VandalismThu, 24 May 2012 09:54:14 GMT
[RNW Africa]
Cape Town -
The freedom of expression debate in South Africa flares up once again after a controversial painting of an 'exposed' President Jacob Zuma was vandalized on Tuesday at a Johannesburg gallery. Our correspondent asked some vocal South Africans what they think.
[Aswat Masriya]
Manipulation in favor of presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq took place at two Mansoura polling stations on Wednesday on the first day of Egypt's presidential election, reported Hisham Abdel Galil, staff member at Fardous Boys School.
[Daily Trust]
Nigeria has voiced its opposition at the United States plans to include Boko Haram on its list of foreign terrorist organisations, news agencies reported yesterday, quoting senior government officials.
[Ghanaian Chronicle]
At first glance, it looks far fetched in contemporary Ghana receiving praises from the international community for running a democratic and open society. But, there is more happening belonging to the underworld, than a transparent administration with room for open dissent.
[UNHCR]
Ambassadors from all 15 members of the UN Security Council have paid an unprecedented visit to a refugee camp in Liberia as part of a mission to assess the situation in the region about one year after the end of a political crisis in neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire.
Congo-Kinshasa: Hague Prosecutor Wants Heavy Sentence for Sexual CrimesThu, 24 May 2012 07:01:58 GMT
[Lubanga Trial Website]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor says the sexual crimes, which were "routinely" committed by soldiers commanded by Thomas Lubanga, should be one of the factors judges should consider to hand him a "very severe joint sentence."
[AlertNet]
An emergency operation is underway to reach tens of thousands of people forced from their homes by the conflict in Mali. Many of them have fled to countries like Niger and Mauritania where the local population is struggling to feed itself in the wake of a long drought.
[SciDev.Net]
Kampala -
Three students at Makerere University in Uganda have designed mobile phone software that can monitor foetal movements and heartbeats.
[Garowe Online]
Mogadishu -
Transitional Federal Government (TFG) troops alongside African Union forces successfully killed Al Shabaab agents while en route to Afgoye a town controlled by Al Shabaab, Garowe Online reports.
[AI London]
Restrictions increased on freedom of expression. Authorities clamped down on peaceful protests, including by using excessive force which led to deaths.
[AI London]
Discord and mistrust within the Government of National Unity (GNU) continued to undermine delivery on key objectives of the Global Political Agreement. This led to severe delays in drawing up a new Constitution and implementing electoral, media and security reforms that would lead to elections.
Nigeria: Hundreds Died in Violence, Unlawful Killings Continued in 2011Thu, 24 May 2012 04:51:11 GMT
[AI London]
Nigeria's human rights situation deteriorated. Hundreds of people were killed in politically motivated, communal and sectarian violence across the country, particularly after the April elections.
Thousands march for peace in Mexico TENS of thousands of people have marched in Mexico's second most populous city, angry at the inability of authorities to end a crime wave.
(heraldsun world)
Fake Android apps scam cost users £28,000 Malicious Android apps posed as Angry Birds and Cut the Rope in a scam that used premium rate text messages to defraud customers of £27,850.
(telegraph technology)
First creature to walk on land 'dragged itself along' - like it was on crutches The creature lived in floodplains on what is now Greenland during a period known geologically as the Devonian period - about 360 to 410 million years ago.
(dailymail sciencetech)
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