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Africa: Oxfam Announces Baaba Maal As Its New Global Ambassador[Oxfam] The Senegalese singer calls on the world to act in West Africa
AllAfrica | 18-May-2012 08:35
Sudan: Repression Intensifies After Border Violence - Human Rights Watch
[HRW] New York - Sudan has stepped up harassment of journalists, censorship, and arrests of political opponents in the wake of recent fighting with South Sudan, Human Rights Watch said today.
AllAfrica | 18-May-2012 08:30
Zimbabwe: Chinese Should Respect Local Labour Laws
[MDC] The Labour based MDC Party continues to fight for a broad based upliftment of the people by ensuring that everyone has decent shelter, food, education, health care facilities and jobs.
AllAfrica | 18-May-2012 07:31
South Sudan: Nation Faces Transparency Test in Pursuing Oil-Backed Financing
[Global Witness] South Sudan must exercise caution and total transparency in pursuing oil-backed financing, said Global Witness today. The detailed publication of any loan agreement will be critical in preventing exploitative terms, corruption, and mismanagement from undermining immediate benefits.
AllAfrica | 17-May-2012 22:41
Southern Africa: Business Leaders Join Forces to Meet Global Health Goals
[SciDev.Net] Business leaders from India, Sub-Saharan Africa and the United States have joined forces to tackle a wide range of global health issues in the developing world and accelerate the translation of research into life-saving products.
AllAfrica | 17-May-2012 19:56
Kenya: Valuable Kitui Land Sold Cheap, Says NGO
[The Star] An NGO has expressed concern over the indiscriminate sale of land in areas rich in coal, limestone and other minerals in Kitui county. An official of Olive Leaf Foundation Brain Mutie yesterday said it was dismaying that the locals have been duped to sell huge tracts of land at low prices oblivious of the high value.
AllAfrica | 17-May-2012 18:59
Africa: End Discrimination Against LGBTI On International Day Against Homophobia
[AI London] Discrimination and persecution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in South Africa and Cameroon must be halted, Amnesty International said as activists around the world mark the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia.
AllAfrica | 17-May-2012 16:48
Africa: Secretary Clinton At Civil Society 2012 Summit
[State Department] Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton Participates In the Strategic Dialogue with Civil Society 2012 Summit:
AllAfrica | 17-May-2012 15:48
Africa: Clinton Hosts Global Civil Society Summit
[State Department] Washington - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says the U.S. government is working to better support civil society leaders around the world as they work to improve democracies, protect human rights and respond to humanitarian needs.
AllAfrica | 17-May-2012 15:45
Uganda: Literacy NGO Empowers Parents to Support Children
[Observer] When Rufina Acan, 54, a resident of Gulu was growing up, education wasn't a priority for girls, which explains why she dropped out of school in primary three to help her blind grandmother before getting married at 14.
AllAfrica | 17-May-2012 15:36
Civil Society Education Manifesto 2012 Launched in Accra - Tim Hinchliffe
[Ghanaian Chronicle] Child's Rights International (CRI), in partnership with the Action for Rural Education (ARE), launched the Civil Society Education Manifesto 2012 in Accra yesterday.
AllAfrica | 17-May-2012 13:05
Nigeria: Group Supports Subsidy Report Protest
[Daily Trust] The International Institute for Humanitarian and Environmental Law has expressed support to the planned protest by the Save Nigeria Group (SNG) over the implementation of the fuel subsidy probe report.
AllAfrica | 17-May-2012 12:58
Nigeria: CACOL Wants Police Promotion Reviewed
[Daily Trust] A non-governmental organisation, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL), said the recent promotion exercise in the Nigeria Police Force should be reviewed in order to give room for performance and integrity to be the criteria for promotion and posting.
AllAfrica | 17-May-2012 12:58
Swaziland: Pickets Protest At King's Visit
[Swazi Media] Photos are beginning to come through from the picket in London to protest that King Mswati III of Swaziland has been invited to take part in the Jubilee celebrations of the UK's Queen Elizabeth.
AllAfrica | 17-May-2012 09:54
Libya: UN Security Council - Press Country On Impunity
[HRW] Members of the United Nations Security Council should condemn attempts by the Libyan National Transitional Council (NTC) to prevent accountability for serious and ongoing crimes committed in Libya.
AllAfrica | 17-May-2012 08:05
Kenya: Kimemia Defends Kibaki's County Jobs Appointments
[The Star] The acting Civil Service head Francis Kimemia has defended President Kibaki's appointment of county commissioners saying the exercise was carried out on merit. He said the Ministry of Provincial Administration and Internal Security converted Regional Commissioners to County Commissioners to coordinate activities of other technical heads of department already dispatched to counties.
AllAfrica | 16-May-2012 18:42
Kenya: Murang'a Elders Reject KNCHR Report On Gays
[The Star] Muranga county elders have opposed attempts to promote same-sex relationships and prostitution in the country. The more than 250 Kikuyu Council of Elders in the county said the bid by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights to have practices legalised was immoral and and insult to the community's cultural and moral values.
AllAfrica | 16-May-2012 17:34
Kenya: NGO Plans to Increase Food in Kitui
[The Star] An NGO in Kitui has launched a campaign to educate people living along Tana River how to harness the river's water for sustainable food production. The Regional Institute for Social Enterprise will start the project at Thaana Nzau Location in Migwani district y. The ISE team leader Temi Mutia said the residents, who have been put into about 40 self-help group, will be facilitated to start small minor irrigation schemes along the river banks.
AllAfrica | 16-May-2012 17:09
South Africa: Marching is for Everyone
[iMaverick] Johannesburg - If you can avoid the rocks, marching is an essential pastime for all South Africans, writes musical comedian DEEP FRIED MAN, who is not averse to the occasional toyi-toyi himself.
AllAfrica | 16-May-2012 17:00
Africa: Bold Food Security Initiative Needed From G8
[Oxfam] Washington, DC - On the eve of the G8 Summit, international agency Oxfam called on world leaders heading to Camp David to make predictable, measureable funding and policy commitments that will help 50 million people lift themselves out of poverty through sustainable, small-scale agriculture by 2015.
AllAfrica | 16-May-2012 16:32
EOHR Raises Critical Analysis for the NGO's Draft Law Made By Muslim Brotherhood
[EOHR] The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) has recently received the NGO's draft law made by the Human Rights' Committee of the Egyptian People's Assembly, including many restrictions on the actions of the local and international civil society organizations, specially funding issues.
AllAfrica | 16-May-2012 14:52
South Africa: DA Versus Cosatu - Any Victors?
[iMaverick] Now that the dust has settled in Braamfontein and the blue tide has retreated back over the bridge, we wonder what exactly the point of all of that was. Who won? The DA's march to the vicinity of Cosatu House says a lot about just how dysfunctional our politics have become. It's also a sign that things can't continue like this.
AllAfrica | 16-May-2012 12:02
Namibia: Napwu, Municipality Lock Horns Over Audit
[Namibian] THE City of Windhoek and the Namibian Public Workers Union (Napwu) are at each others throats over the payment of a forensic audit carried out at the Solid Waste Management Division (SWD) of the municipality last year.
AllAfrica | 16-May-2012 11:33
South Africa: Industry Rejects Proposed State-Owned Construction Company
[Biz-Community] The Master Builders Association of the Western Cape (MBAWC) supports the majority of the statements made by Minister of Human Settlements, Tokyo Sexwale, in his address to the National Assembly regarding the Human Settlements Budget Vote.
AllAfrica | 16-May-2012 11:12
Namibia: NAC Staff to Wait for Dispute Outcome
[Namibian] GENERAL Secretary of the Namibia Transport and Allied Workers Union (Natau), John Kwedhi, yesterday confirmed that plans to strike by Namibia Airports Company (NAC) workers were put on hold pending a labour dispute hearing at the Labour Commission next week.
AllAfrica | 16-May-2012 10:10
South Africa: Cosatu Hostility 'Justified'
[SAPA] Johannesburg - The hostility displayed by Cosatu members during a DA march in the Johannesburg city centre on Tuesday was justified, the trade federation said.
AllAfrica | 16-May-2012 09:36
Sudan: Gov't Must End Clampdown On Media
[AI London] The Sudanese authorities must halt the ongoing harassment of independent media, Amnesty International said after a prominent journalist was re-arrested and copies of a national newspaper seized in Khartoum on Tuesday.
AllAfrica | 16-May-2012 09:05
Africa: Authorities Must Start to Implement Police Criminality Law Ahead of Euro 2012
[AI London] A new law which paves the way for independent investigations into allegations of police violence in Ukraine must be enforced in order to curb widespread police criminality in the country ahead of Euro 2012, Amnesty International said.
AllAfrica | 16-May-2012 09:03
Bosco Ntaganda Recruits Children By Force
[HRW] Gen. Bosco Ntaganda, who mutinied against the Democratic Republic of Congo in early April 2012, has forcibly recruited at least 149 boys and young men into his forces since April 19, Human Rights Watch said today. Ntaganda, a former rebel leader turned army general, is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of war crimes for previous recruitment and use of child soldiers.
AllAfrica | 16-May-2012 08:46
Worst Human Rights Situation in 50 Years
[AI London] Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by fighting in northern Mali and dozens have been subjected to arbitrary detention, extra-judicial executions or sexual violence including rape, Amnesty International said today.
AllAfrica | 16-May-2012 08:40
Illegal Orphanages Spring Up in V/R - Dept. of Social Welfare Threatens Closure
[Ghanaian Chronicle] Ho - The Volta Region branch of the Department of Social Welfare has intensified its activities to ensure that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in areas of child care and protection possess the relevant licenses.
AllAfrica | 16-May-2012 07:51
Teargas Fired At DA March
[SAPA] Johannesburg - DA marchers taking part in the march against Cosatu in Johannesburg took off their blue shirts in fear of Cosatu supporters as police fired teargas on Tuesday morning.
AllAfrica | 16-May-2012 07:50
Sudan: Imminent Rains Will Jeopardize Response to Conflict, Aid Agencies Warn
[Oxfam] Seasonal rains due in Sudan and South Sudan will exacerbate already dire conditions in refugee camps, restrict travel and access, and heighten the risk of disease, a group of leading humanitarian agencies warned today. The rains, which in some places have already started, will make many roads impassable, trapping people in unstable areas and deepening the current hunger crisis.
AllAfrica | 15-May-2012 18:55
Liberia: COYASBEL Honors Matilda Parker
[Informer] A Pro democracy Group known as Coalition of Youth and Students for better Liberia (COYASBEL) is expected to honor the Managing Director of the National Port Authority, (NPA) Madam Matilda Parker for what the group called her sacrificial achievements since she took over the affairs of the port.
AllAfrica | 15-May-2012 18:28
Kenya: Nyeri NGO Laments Neglect of the Elderly
[The Star] A Non - Governmental Organisation from Nyeri county has decried the rising cases of neglect and abandonment of old people by their families and the society in general.
AllAfrica | 15-May-2012 18:19
Africa: New Global Vaccine Strategy Glosses Over Basic Immunisation Gaps
[MSF] Geneva - A new, ten-year, multi-billion dollar action plan for global vaccination may fail to deliver if it does not directly address the weaknesses in routine immunisation programmes.
AllAfrica | 15-May-2012 16:56
Africa: GBCHealth Conference Introduces MDG Health Alliance
[GBCHealth] NEW YORK CITY (May 15, 2012) - The MDG Health Alliance, an innovative new private sector organization created and led by eminent business leaders to tackle urgent global health problems, was introduced today in the United States at the GBCHealth Conference.
AllAfrica | 15-May-2012 15:59
Angola: Civic Education Agents Role Highlighted
[ANGOP] Luanda - The success of the coming general elections in the country requires the commitment of the civil education agents in raising awareness of the citizens to vote correctly.
AllAfrica | 15-May-2012 15:17
Africa: Moratorium on Industrial Logging Being Bypassed
[Greenpeace] Greenpeace has today urged the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government to cancel the artisanal permits that are being used for industrial logging operations, an illegal practice that clearly circumvents the moratorium on new industrial logging concessions.
AllAfrica | 15-May-2012 15:09
Nigeria: CSOs Challenge Jonathan On Same Sex Marriage
[This Day] The Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have asked President Goodluck Jonathan to critically scrutinize the National Health Bill 2008 (NHB 2008) and eventually expunge the parts which they described as enemy of life, and also, reject the pressure from international community to introduce homosexuality into Nigeria's culture by signing the Homosexuality bill.
AllAfrica | 15-May-2012 13:20
Namibia: Court Stops NAC Strike
[Namibian] THE Labour Court granted the Namibia Airports Company (NAC) an interim interdict to stop a pending strike by workers late yesterday afternoon.
AllAfrica | 15-May-2012 12:55
Namibia: NRCS Celebrates 20 Years
[New Era] Windhoek - The Namibia Red Cross Society (NRCS) collected over N$50 000 during its 20th anniversary gala dinner in the capital on Friday.
AllAfrica | 15-May-2012 12:18
Ghana: MPs, Experts Bash Majority Leader
[Public Agenda] MPs, lawyers, media experts, human rights activists and civil society groups have descended hard and heavily on Majority Leader Cletus Avoka for publicly stating, without any hesitation, that the passage of the Right to Information (RTI) Bill is not a priority for Parliament.
AllAfrica | 15-May-2012 12:05
Mothers' Day Celebration?
[Public Agenda] Women in Law and Development in Africa (WiLDAF), a gender-based non-governmental organization, has donated items worth over one thousand Ghana cedis to the Maternity and Buruli Wards of the Amasaman Hospital in the Ga West Municipality of the Greater Accra Region.
AllAfrica | 15-May-2012 12:05
Angola: Employers Must Meet Regularly - Union Official
[ANGOP] Luanda - The secretary general of the Angolan Trade Union (UNTA-CS), Manuel Augusto Viage, Monday in Luanda appealed to employers to hold regular meetings to exchange experience and promote a more active job market in various sectors.
AllAfrica | 15-May-2012 10:21
Morocco: No Action On Police Beating of Rights Worker
[HRW] Rabat - The failure of Moroccan authorities to follow through on investigating the beating by police of a Human Rights Watch research assistant is a case study of impunity for police violence, Human Rights Watch said today.
AllAfrica | 15-May-2012 08:56