A summit aimed at resolving the crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR) will be held this month in Khartoum, Sudan, according to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

US-based groups have voiced concern over reports that Tanzanian police searched offices and homes of lawyers pressing for an international probe of alleged killings at a Canadian-invested gold mine in the East African country.

The new apartheid museam next to Gold Reef City in Johannesburg, is both shocking and brilliant says AFP's Jan Hennop.

Evidence of terror cells active throughout Europe is strengthening the position of anti-immigration advocates throughout the Continent. This will lead to greater calls to tighten immigration policies and restrict the free movement of labor. But such policies would have negative implications for long-term European growth and integration.

A special page on trafficking of humans has been added to the December 18 website. It provides you with links to international and regional instruments and to various documents from governmental, multilateral and non governmental sources.

Amendments to the Electoral Act - intended to disenfranchise as many potential opposition supporters as possible - will give a legal basis for rigging of the ballot.

Civil rights activists in Zimbabwe have threatened to launch a campaign of civil disobedience in January unless the government implements political reforms and ensures next year's presidential election is free and fair.

President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa sought to distance himself from the worsening situation in Zimbabwe yesterday when his spokesmen suggested that he had toughened his attitude towards President Robert Mugabe.

The Japanese government plans to join a 1998 treaty that eyes establishment of an
International Criminal Court to try under international law individuals who
have committed war crimes and mass murder, government sources have said.

The International Secretariat of OMCT has been informed by a reliable source of the arbitrary arrest and detention of four men accused of being homosexual in Egypt. The four men have been held in the Boulak Prison Station in Giza, and are reportedly under investigation for "the habitual practice of debauchery" - previously also translated as "obscene behaviour" - under Article 9c of Law No. 10 of 1961 on the Combat of Prostitution.

the White House has issued a press release on President Bush's signing of the Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary appropriations bill in which the Craig Amendment was added: "Section 630 prohibits the use of appropriated funds for cooperation with, or assistance or other support to, the International Criminal Court (ICC) or its Preparatory Commission."

The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation welcomes the prison sentences imposed on the four members of the North East Rand Dog Unit for the brutal canine torture of 3 Mozambicans. But while the four policemen have been sentenced to imprisonment what is very clear is that not all of those who were complicit in this act of savagery have yet been held accountable.

The Tanzanian police have arrested two men and issued a warrant for the arrest of the third who have been pressing for an international investigation of allegations of forcible evictions and killings at Bulyanhulu in Tanzania in August of 1996. This alert calls for protests to the World Bank and the Tanzanian government.

The President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, warned today that civil conflict could explode in Zimbabwe if full press freedom is not ensured in the run-up to presidential elections next March.

Hundreds of Nigerian women and girls have been lured into prostitution in Europe and the Middle East, where they are vulnerable to abuse and violence. This website profiles those who are campaigning to put an end to this insidious trade.

This workshop will cover diverse aspects of conflict transformation and peace building, and is aimed at capacity building for people working in conflict transformation, development, human rights and related fields on the African continent.

Robert Mugabe’s government is tightening its fist before the up-coming elections.

Belgian government ministers bore “moral responsibility” for events leading to the murder of the Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba in 1961, a parliamentary inquiry has found.

The Nigeria Immigration Services (NIS), on Sunday deported six Pakistani nationals who were arrested two days earlier for threatening the peace and security in Sagamu, the capital of southwestern Ogun State, The Guardian reported on Friday.

Issues surrounding the withdrawal of Guinean troops from their base near Koindu in eastern Kailahun District of Sierra Leone, will have to be resolved by the governments of the two countries, according to the UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL).