David Miliband (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
It’s extraordinary that there are over 11 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Africa. The African Union statement highlights the problem across at least 20 African states where people are currently internally displaced. Now we need to turn the words into action and help these displaced people.
France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
The African Union has implemented travel and financial sanctions on members of Guinea's ruling junta. The US and EU had already imposed similar sanctions following the massacre of protesters in Conakry in September.
France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday
The African Union has implemented sanctions on Guinea's military rulers, AU Peace and Security Commissioner Ramtane Lamamra said Saturday. "Africa has implemented sanctions against several dozen people in Guinea who are opposing a return to constitutional order," he said at a press conference on the sidelines of a summit on the Madagascar crisis. "The list has been sent to AU member...
The Seferm Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
The African Union has implemented sanctions on Guinea's military rulers, AU Peace and Security Commissioner Ramtane Lamamra said Saturday.
IOL (Free subscription) | yesterday
The African Union says it will not re-admit Madagascar until a newly agreed power-sharing government was in place and fresh elections in the pipeline.
Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The African Union (AU) said on Saturday it would not re-admit Madagascar until a newly agreed power-sharing government was in place and fresh elections in the pipeline.
Singapore Angle (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Cable, over at Foreign Policy, notes that the Obama administration is sending a sizable high-powered team to attend the upcoming APEC Summit in Singapore; it also finds it noteworthy that the side-meeting between the US and all ten ASEAN countries is finally taking place and sees it as a reaction against China's recent diplomatic successes. Back in 2007, in a Foreign Affairs piece marking ASEAN's...
turenchi (Free subscription) | yesterday
President of the Christian Association of Nigeria and Archbishop of Abuja, Rev. Dr. John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan has said bad leadership and poor resource management are major contributors to the susceptibility of the African continent to conflicts especially religious conflicts. He added that the bad leadership has contributed to poverty on the continent and a sad fact considering the abundant resources...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
[JURIST] The International Criminal Court (ICC) announced Friday that it has assigned three judges to the situation involving the violence perpetrated in the wake of Kenya's 2007 presidential elections. The decision came in response to a Thursday letter from chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo in which he said that he intends to request formal authorization in December to initiate an investigation...
Flying Aqua Badger (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
All year this event has been given the big billing. This is going when the authorities of the world are going to get together and decide what to do about the human pollution impact on the planet. I hope I'm not read as too cynical in my belief that nothing of the sort is going to happen. Why is that? Lets see who is attending and the views. Amongst others: China, USA, EU, India, Japan, African Union,...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The African Union's Special summit on refugees, returnees and internally displaced persons that took place in Kampala on 22 October marked a historic attempt to address the huge challenge of forced displacement that continues to overwhelm the continent.
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
----- ABDUL WAHID OSMAN BELAL --- On Tue, 3/11/09, OIC News wrote: From: OIC News Subject: OIC Newsletter 43 (2009) To: Date: Tuesday, 3 November, 2009, 18:28 Issue 43 (03 November 2009) In this issue · Al-Quds is a red line, warns OIC. The Executive Committee calls for an emergency session of the UN Security Council to discuss Israeli violations in Al-Quds · OIC clarifies its views on...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
[JURIST] International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Thursday announced that he will ask the ICC to open a formal inquiry into violence perpetrated in the wake of Kenya's 2007 presidential elections. Following a meeting to discuss the ICC inquiry with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga, Moreno-Ocampo said that crimes against humanity committed...
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
As African leaders gathered in Kampala mid last month to attend the African Union Special Summit on Refugees, Returnees and Internally Displace Persons, perhaps not so many of us were actually aware that elsewhere, in the UK, another conference was taking place to warn that the international law is inadequate to deal with millions of people forecast to become climate exiles in the face of escalating...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The neighbours of a shaky west African state fear that its instability could spread WHEN Moussa Dadis Camara, a 45-year-old captain, seized power at the end of last year, many Guineans and foreigners were by no means unhappy. He seemed sure to be better than his corrupt and dictatorial predecessor, President Lansana Conte, who had just died after 25 years in charge. But hope evaporated at the end...
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