By Gambian Correspondent – Back home in Gambia, Amadou Jallow was, at 22, a lover of reggae who had just finished college and had landed a job teaching science in a high school. In his West African homeland, Mr. Jallow’s salary was the equivalent of just 50 euros a month, barely enough for the necessities, he said. And everywhere in his neighborhood in Serekunda, Gambia’s largest city, there was talk of easy money to be made in Europe. Now he laughs bitterly about all that talk. He lives in a patch of woods in southern Spain, just outside the village of... Continue Reading
The Professional Journalists’ Association of South Africa (ProJourn) is deeply saddened to hear of the death of our friend and colleague, South African photojournalist Anton Hammerl, last month in Libya. News of Hammerl’s death broke only late last night when American journalists Clare Gillis and James Foley were interviewed by the GlobalPost after crossing into rebel-held Tunisia, having been released after six weeks in Gaddafi-loyalist custody in Tripoli. Gillis and Foley said they and Spanish photojournalist Manu Brabo were captured by loyalist forces on the outskirts of Brega on April 5. Hammerl suffered serious gunshot wounds to the abdomen during... Continue Reading
The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is responding to the consequences of fighting in the Abyei region of Sudan following violent clashes that began on the night of Friday 20 May. Whole towns have emptied and thousands of people are on the move in a bid to escape the fighting. The situation in the area remains extremely volatile. The population left their homes with few belongings, and travelling conditions are particularly harsh now that the rainy season has started and the roads are muddy. “We have witnessed a massive movement of people out of Agok (40 km... Continue Reading
By Own Correspondent with support from OSCE – Ratko Mladić, Colonel General, former Commander of the Main Staff of the Bosnian Serb Army (VRS) is charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the laws or customs of war against Bosnian Muslim, Bosnian Croat and other non-Serb civilians in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1992-1995 war. As set out in the Indictment, Ratko Mladić together with Radovan Karadžić was a key member of a joint criminal enterprise to permanently remove Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats from the territory in Bosnia and Herzegovina claimed by Bosnian Serbs. To achieve this... Continue Reading
Judge Khalida Rachid Khan (Pakistan) has been elected President of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda effective from 27 May 2011 for a period of two years. Judge Khan, who is presiding Judge of Trial Chamber III, has been Vice-President of the Tribunal since 21 May 2007. She replaces Judge Dennis Byron (St. Kitts and Nevis), former President of the Tribunal since 21 May 2007, whose tour of duty expires on 26 May 2011. Judge Byron has been elected Vice-President. Judge Khan has been a judge at the Tribunal since August 2003. Prior to joining the Tribunal, she... Continue Reading
