Men Still Make the Decisions on Reproductive Rights in Cote d'Ivoire
ABIDJAN , Mar 15, 2012 (IPS) - "I would like to use contraception, but my husband is against it," says Bintou Moussa*. The 32-year-old mother has just given birth to her sixth child at ...
View ArticleZambia deregisters leading opposition party
Lusaka - Zambia was thrown into political uncertainty on Wednesday that risks stoking social tension after the government deregistered the leading opposition party, which ruled the country until ...
View ArticleNigeria's deputy police chief dies in helicopter crash
JOS, March 14 (Reuters) - A police helicopter crashed in central Nigeria on Wednesday, killing the country's deputy police chief and three other police officers, authorities and witnesses ...
View ArticleMilitia hands Britons to Libya government
Tripoli - A militia that held two British journalists accused of illegal entry into Libya have handed the pair over to the government, the deputy interior minister said ...
View ArticleAustralian ‘special forces gathering intelligence in Africa’
March 14, 2012 The Sydney Morning Herald said 4 Squadron of the elite Special Air Service (SAS) had mounted dozens of clandestine operations in places such as Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Kenya in a role ...
View ArticleSA to meet legal experts over Madagascar roadmap
South Africa's Deputy International Relations Minister Marius Fransman will meet regional and European legal experts in Madagascar on ...
View ArticleSomali refugees shot in Dabaab were 'targeted'
Two Somali refugees were shot dead and a third was wounded by gunmen in Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, a spokesperson for the UN refugee agency that runs the camp said on ...
View Article'There's no money for elections'
Zimbabwe's finance minister told reporters on Wednesday that elections can't be held this year as the president wants, because there isn't enough money ...
View ArticleAppalled Ugandans riot at Kony 2012 screening
It has been viewed more than 77-million times around the world, but not by those who know the Joseph Kony best: his victims in northern ...
View ArticleThe Spotlight Shines On Another Central African Warlord
AP Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga (center) at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, where he was convicted Wednesday of war crimes, including recruiting child ...
View Article'It Gets in Your Bloodstream'
With violence putting people in the Nuba Mountains region of Sudan in peril, actor and human rights activist George Clooney said Wednesday in an interview with the NewsHour's Judy Woodruff that ...
View ArticleGeorge Clooney Puts 'Spotlight' on Bloodshed, Crisis in...
After recently visiting Sudan's Nuba Mountains, actor and activist George Clooney and the Enough Project's John Prendergast described people hiding in caves to avoid bombings. Judy ...
View ArticleUN Hails Verdict Against Congo War Criminal
de marzo de 2012, 17:19 United Nations, Mar 14 (Prensa Latina) The United Nations today welcomed the verdict of guilty of war crimes issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Thomas ...
View ArticleThe Invisible Government Is Hiding Behind The Invisible Children To Keep...
';A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.'; – Mark Twain. The rotten invisible government in the United States has created a mass buzz ...
View ArticleAngelina Jolie Shills for Globalist Plan in Africa at ICC Trial
CFR member - was on hand to witness the conviction of Thomas Lubanga at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. Judges found Lubanga guilty of kidnaping children and using them as soldiers ...
View ArticleS. Africa January Retail Sales Growth At 6-Month Low
3/14/2012 9:49 AM ET (RTTNews) - South Africa's retail sales grew at the slowest pace in six months in January, data from Statistics South Africa showed Wednesday.Retail sales increased 3.9 ...
View ArticleSuicide bomber kills five in Somalia
A suicide bomber has killed at least five people in an attack at the compound of Somali President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed that was claimed by al-Qaeda affiliated al-Shabab ...
View ArticleMTN Ghana targets 11m subs this year
USD134 million this year to expand its infrastructure as it targets eleven million subscribers by year-end, up from the end-2011 total of 10.2 million. Michael Ikpoki, the chief executive officer ...
View ArticleClooney uses star power to spotlight Sudan crisis
Actor George Clooney testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 14, 2012, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on ...
View ArticleWar-crimes court convicts Congo militia leader of conscripting child soldiers
The children were not always the best soldiers. Sometimes their clothes were too big and they lost their boots when they ran. Some were too small to carry a Kalashnikov. Some were too slow to flee ...
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