Joint Electoral Observation Mission Makes Further Criticisms of Electoral Abuses in...
Further to its publication of 1 December, the Joint Electoral Observation Mission in the DRC released a statement on 16 December...
Wangari Maathai, the Woman of Trees, Dies
Kenya’s Wangari Muta Maathai, the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner, environmentalist and human rights activist, died 25 September at age 71....
EU Takes Step Towards Conflict-free Supply Chains
Global Witness and CCFD-Terre Solidaire welcomed a commitment by EU Trade Commissioner De Gucht and Development Commissioner Piebalgs to make...
The DRC Gears Up for its November Elections
This week, as parliamentary and presidential candidates prepare for the DRC’s November elections, fears have been expressed that Africa’s third biggest...
The Worldbank is Moving Kenya & Bangladesh Up
WASHINGTON (World Bank): The World Bank’s latest estimates of Gross National Income per capita (GNI = indkomst pr. indbygger) continue to...
Journalist Shot Dead Near his Home in Eastern DRC
A community radio presenter has been shot dead near his home in Kirumba, North Kivu. Media watchdog, Journaliste en danger, is...
Two Tanzanian Former Finance Ministers Jailed for Graft
In Summary
– The firm that received the exemptions was a subsidiary of UK-based Alex Stewart International.
– Relatives wept as the sentence...
Jakaya Kikwete Attacks Rivals
President Jakaya Kikwete emerged from the closet of inertia amid the ongoing pre-election saga yesterday to sling mud on his political...
5 Policemen Found Guilty for Chebeya murder
The verdict and sentence has been passed on the eight policemen accused of the murder of human rights activist, Floribert Chebeya...
Which Direction for the DRC’s Justice System?
The UN Mapping Report on human rights abuses in the DRC between 1993 and 2003, produced in October 2010, had the...