“The Authority of the People”
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TROISIEME REPRISE DE LA REUNION DES CHEFS DE FILES DES MOUVANCES POLITIQUES
La réunion d’Addis-Abeba est un tournant décisif pour la résolution de la crise politique à Madagascar.
La mouvance Andry RAJOELINA est plus que jamais déterminée à poursuivre toutes les démarches pour une issue de crise au nom de l’intérêt supérieur de la Nation. Read more…
A three-month investigation by the Liberian government has found an American rubber company guilty of polluting local water sources. The Firestone Rubber Plantation Company is located 48km south-east of the capital Monrovia and has been found to be contaminating creeks in the region with high levels of orthophosphate, according to the investigation’s final report. Read more…
IIdephonse Nizeyimana was picked up at a hotel in Rubaga, a suburb of the capital, Kampala, by the National Central Bureau of Interpol, according to a news release from the U.N.-sponsored International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) on Tuesday.
The World Food Programme (WFP) will close 12 food centres for mothers and children in Somalia because it has run out of money. The organisation has only received 40 per cent of its budget for 2009. WFP spokesman Peter Smerdon said the group had no other option but to cut aid. The country is struggling with a violent armed conflict, which has driven tens of thousands of people from their homes. A severe drought also threatens food security. Last week the group appealed for 217,000 metric tons of food, worth over 200 million US dollars, to feed 3.5 million people by the end of October when stocks will run-out. The WFP has also said it will have to restrict aid services to Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya.
Opposition parties have called for a three-day strike in Gabon this week in objection to the presidential elections of 30 August, which they claim were fixed. The interim president, Rose Rogombe, asked yesterday for the population to ignore the call and the capital Libreville appears to be working as usual, according to today’s reports. Violent riots broke out in the country after the announcement of Ali Ben Bongo’s victory in early September. At least three people died in the city of Port-Gentil and witness accounts of civilian abuses from security forces continue to come out. Bongo is the son of late President of Gabon, Omar Bongo, who ruled the country for 41 years until his death in June.
The police chief in Kenya, Mohamed Hussein Ali, has been removed from his position and is now the head of the national post office, according to an announcement made yesterday by President Mwai Kibaki. The official statement said this was a potential first step in a larger reform plan for the security forces in Kenya. International human rights organisations have pointed the police as responsible for most of the 1,500 deaths that happened in a surge of violence after the 2007 Kenyan elections. Calls for a deep reform of the local security forces had accompanied a United Nations report released in January 2009, which described systematic killings committed by the police with total impunity.
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Zimbabwe’s MDC says senior official arrested
Fri Feb 13, 2009 2:04pm GMT
By MacDonald Dzirutwe
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean security agents arrested a leader of the opposition MDC on Friday ahead of a swearing-in ceremony for a new unity cabinet in which he was due to take a post, a party official said. Read more…
this 14 year old boy was set on fire by the Guyana Police Force
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