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Further Victims Identified in DRC Mass Rapes Case By Aprille Muscara UNITED NATIONS - The number of women raped by rebel groups during last month’s raid of more than a dozen villages centred around Walikale, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has risen to over 240, U.N. officials told reporters here today. MORE >>
RWANDA Genocide Ideology and Sectarianism Laws Silencing Critics? Analysis by Aprille Muscara UNITED NATIONS - Among its unstable and conflict-ridden neighbours, Rwanda stands out. It has been pegged as a model of development and one of Africa’s success stories: Since the 1990’s, when a civil war ravaged the country, average incomes have doubled, its people have become healthier and less hungry and it has the highest proportion of women parliamentarians worldwide. Yet, maintaining this stability is a government accused of muzzling its opponents and committing human rights abuses. MORE >>
EAST AFRICA Protecting Lake Victoria's Top Predator By Arnaud Bébien MWANZA, Tanzania - Coordinated conservation measures to arrest the steep decline of stocks of Nile perch in Lake Victoria are showing encouraging results - for fish, if not for fishing communities around the lake. MORE >>
Outrage Grows Over Failure to Protect DRC Civilians By Aprille Muscara UNITED NATIONS - As details emerged this week of the U.N.'s knowledge of rebel activity in the villages where nearly 200 women were systematically gang raped by armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) late last month, human rights groups are demanding an investigation into the U.N.'s failure to prevent the raid from occurring. MORE >>
Sudan's President and Criminal Court in Cat-and-Mouse Game By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS - Sudan's elusive President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir and the unrelenting Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo are playing a political cat- and-mouse game. MORE >>
SOUTH AFRICA Public Health Strained by Nurses' Strike By Chris Stein JOHANNESBURG - Striking health workers have continued their work stoppage despite accusations that it endangers patients' lives. They are part of a nationwide strike by public sector workers that has some observers concerned that rising wage demands could harm South Africa's economy. MORE >>
MALAWI Women Candidates Hard Hit by Election Postponement By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE - News that Malawi’s November local government elections are to be postponed yet again has hit female candidates hard – and mostly in their pockets. And it could mean that the country will have less female candidates to vote for when they finally go to the polls. MORE >>
SOUTH AFRICA Teachers' Voices Heard in Public Sector Strike By Marshall Patsanza JOHANNESBURG - South African teachers - along with other public service employees - have embarked on an indefinite strike over wages. The unions are demanding an 8.6 percent wage increase. Government says it cannot afford to offer 1.3 million striking public servants any more than seven percent. MORE >>
Trying Pirates Often as Tricky as Catching Them By Aprille Muscara UNITED NATIONS - U.N. member states and regional organisations debated the question of how Somali pirates should be prosecuted in a Security Council meeting Wednesday, following a report submitted last month by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon outlining seven possible legal options. MORE >>
ECONOMY "Sub-Saharan Africa Is Speeding Towards Affluence" By Julio Godoy PARIS - Africa is heading towards a bright economic future, according to a new book co-authored by the former director of the French state agency for economic cooperation and released recently in Paris. MORE >>
MALAWI Campaign Against Female Vice President a Campaign Against Equality By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE - The future of women’s political representation in Malawi has come into question as the ruling Democratic People’s Party (DPP) launched a smear campaign against its own member, the country’s female Vice President Joyce Banda. Many had hoped Banda would become the country’s first female president in 2014. MORE >>
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