Shout-Africa News – NAIROBI – Police in Kenya have arrested an assistant minister and two MPs for hate speech in the campaign for a new constitution, after violence on Sunday. Assistant Roads Minister Wilfred Machage was among six MPs accused of hate speech on Monday. All six deny the charges. Six people died on Sunday after a grenade attack at a prayer meeting in the capital, Nairobi, organised by the “No” campaign. The three arrested MPs were interrogated for several hours at the Criminal Investigation Department headquarters and are expected to be charged in court in Wednesday. During their campaign... Continue Reading
Shout-Africa News – KIGALI, — The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Rwandan authorities today to provide information as to why the Web site of newspaper Umuvugizi is inaccessible in the run-up to August presidential elections. The state-run Rwanda News Agency reported on June 3 that the Web site of Umuvugizi, a leading private paper known for its critical coverage of the government, could not be opened on the networks of the country’s only Internet service providers. Editor John Bosco Gasasira, who launched Umuvugizi online in May after Rwanda’s Media High Council suspended the newspaper of the same name in... Continue Reading
Shout-Africa News – HARARE, — PAC has called for the release from detention of human rights activist, Farai Maguwu, and the suspension of Zimbabwe from the Kimberley Process A new PAC report about Zimbabwe’s contested diamond fields is about many things: smuggling and frontier hucksterism; a scramble fuelled by raw economic desperation and unfathomable greed; and heart-wrenching cases of government-sponsored repression and human rights violations. It’s a story about political intrigue, ambition and a complete disregard for decency or the rule of law. It is also a story of how the Kimberley Process – the international initiative created to ensure... Continue Reading
Shout-Africa News – LONDON, — Mo Ibrahim Foundation has announced decision not to award 2010 Ibrahim Prize / Foundation to fund Leadership Fellowships for next generation of African leaders, the Prize Committee met yesterday to discuss the award of the 2010 Mo Ibrahim Prize. Following its deliberations, the Prize Committee informed the Board of the Foundation that it had not selected a winner. Last year the Prize Committee announced that it had considered some credible candidates, but after in depth review could not select a winner. This year the Prize Committee told the Board that there had been no new... Continue Reading
Zimbabwe left the Commonwealth in 2003, and since then there has been little contact with it for ordinary Zimbabweans. In 2009, to celebrate its 60th anniversary, a “Commonwealth Conversation” was held in many member countries. The British Council organised the Commonwealth Conversation in Harare, at the University of Zimbabwe, so that for the first time since their country left, several hundred young Zimbabweans could talk openly about what the Commonwealth means to them. Below are some FAQs with the British Council Office in Zimbabwe: Why does the British Council continue to work in Zimbabwe? The purpose of the British Council... Continue Reading
