By: Augustine N. Myers – At least 1, 800 refugees from neighboring Ivory Coast have crossed over to Liberia, in the wake of political tension in that West African Country. Local authorities of the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) said there are more Ivorian refugees expected to arrive in Liberia and other 200 in Guinea. According to the UNHCR, some 2,000 people, mostly women and children from Cote d’Ivoire have entered neighboring Liberia and Guinea amid the political deadlock precipitated by the dispute over the results of the Ivorian Presidential elections, the United Nations Refugee Agency said Monday.... Continue Reading
By Misheck Rusere – A research carried by two Non Governmental Organisations namely the Research and Advocacy Unit and Zimbabwe Doctors for Human Rights has revealed that the country’s 2008 elections resulted in the highest number of rapes compared to other elections since 2000. The study comes amid calls by President Mugabe and his ZANU (PF) party to go for polls in 2011 to end the life of the Inclusive Government formed more than one and half years ago after ZANU (PF) won the lone race at the withdrawal of MDC-T citing politically motivated violence. The chilling report on politically-motivated... Continue Reading
NAIROBI, 30 November 2010 (IRIN) – Kenya is likely to witness worsening food security, significant disease outbreaks, and further pockets of conflict in 2011, as well as a continuing flow of refugees from Somalia, say aid officials. “There is a fear of La Niña compromising the [food security] gains made,” said Aeneas Chuma, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator at the 30 November launch of Kenya’s 2011 Emergency Humanitarian Response Plan (EHRP) appeal. Most of the US$525 million funding requested is expected to meet food security and refugee needs. At present, the number of food aid beneficiaries has dropped to... Continue Reading
By Novell Zwange – The South African Commission for Religious and Traditional Affairs (CRATA) yesterday said that it welcomes the current debate around the status of the Khoi community in our society. South Africa’s Khoikhoi and San who said they were dispossessed, unrecognised and facing a ‘cultural genocide’, petitioned the government for full recognition of their rights as indigenous people. The San and Khoi are demanding that their rights be recognised. Photo: Le Grand Portage They claim that their history of oppression and dispossession has long been overlooked, with government preferring to focus on rectifying the evils of apartheid’s land policies.... Continue Reading
By John Zyombo – With a week to commemorate the international day of struggle against HIV / AIDS, province of South Kivu in eastern DRC is mobilized in the fight against sexual violence. The 16 Days of Activism began November 25 until December 10, 2010, with a peaceful march organized by the provincial division of the gender, family and children in collaboration with UNICEF and other NGOs internationals organizations in the fight against violence to women and children. This campaign aims at fighting against violence committed to women and children and to double their efforts to address it further. According... Continue Reading
