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Tens of thousands continue to suffer the effects of violence in South ...

April 7, 2013 no comments

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 5, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ –Violence has forced thousands of people to abandon their homes in several remote areas over the past few months. The ICRC has rec...

Malawi: Courts sets Thursday for Mutharika death arrests as violence s...

March 12, 2013 no comments

Blantyre, Malawi, March 12 (Raphael Tenthani) – The eleven former senior Malawi government officials, arrested on Monday following the publication of a report into the death last April of Presi...

As U.N. report is published Rwanda is linked to the violence in Congo

July 6, 2012 no comments

WASHINGTON – Ethan Freedman - (IPS) - After weeks of delay, the United Nations released Monday its full annex by the U.N. Security Council condemning the Rwandan government for its support of ...

Wave of violence threatens Presidential Elections in Egypt as proteste...

May 12, 2012 no comments

Cairo - Shahira Amin* – Violent clashes between protesters staging a sit-in outside the Defence Ministry Headquarters in Cairo’s Abbasseya district and unknown assailants killed at least 20 p...

Outbreak of violence as peace is lost in the Libyan desert

April 30, 2012 no comments

KUFRA, Libya, Rebecca Murray (IPS) – The recent outbreak of violence between the largely segregated Zwai and Tabu tribes in Libya’s remote, Saharan town of Kufra shattered the uneasy calm that held s...

U.N. calls for action as six out of ten women suffer physical and/or s...

December 6, 2011 no comments

Facts like this have urged the UN to call for engaging all of society, and especially young people, to end violence against women, “a scourge that spans the globe and takes many forms, including rape...

President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia

Spotlight on Liberia’s presidential and legislative elections as...

October 11, 2011 1 comment

GRAND GEDEH COUNTY, Liberia (IPS) – As Liberia gears up for Tuesday’s presidential and legislative elections, officials stationed near the border with Ivory Coast have expressed concern that insuffic...

Edith Nawakwi - Set to be the country's first female President

As Zambians go to the polls on Tuesday perpetrators of violence are wa...

September 20, 2011 no comments

LUSAKA, (IPS) – As Zambians go to the polls on Tuesday to elect a new government and president they do so amid fears of election violence. The country’s police, the Electoral Commission of Zambia (EC...

Renewed violence as opposition leader returns to Uganda

May 14, 2011 no comments

Among the crowd who thronged Uganda’s airport to greet Kizza Besigye, the opposition leader who many Ugandans consider the country’s true president after February’s contested polls,...

Police make sweeping arrests after deadly protests in Northern Nigeria...

April 20, 2011 no comments

Hundreds of people have been arrested by police in northern Nigeria after deadly protests in opposition strongholds in the mostly Muslim north following President Goodluck Jonathan’s election v...

Elections in Guinea may be postponed because of violence

September 14, 2010 no comments

Prime Minister Jean Marie Dore of Guinea has said that maintaining public order was more important than holding an election that was planned for September. Apparently, in a statement, he stopped sho...

Robert Mugabe - Amnesty International slams Mugabe

Mugabe the Dictator is Calling for an End to Violence in Zimbabwe

April 21, 2010 no comments

If you don’t know or have never heard of Robert Mugabe and you read the title of this article you may be forgiven to show excitement about the news that the President is asking the people to end poli...

Somalia: 12 Killed in One Day Violence

December 22, 2009 no comments

At least eight people have been killed and nearly 20 others injured after an exchange of mortar fire and a roadside bomb targeted on Somali TFG security forces vehicle in the restive capital of Somal...

Will Kenyans live up to Expectations?

October 8, 2009 2 comments

What happened in Kenya a few years back could best be described as a demonstration of the selfishness of some African politicians who are always bent on exploiting a given situation in an effort to s...

Gunshots in Gabon as Looting and Violence Continues

September 5, 2009 no comments

There has been widespread and violence in Port Gentil, Gabon’s second city with looting and buildings being set on fire. 2 people were killed on Thursday as the violence erupted following the announc...