MDC Party leader Morgan Tsvangirai told a jubilant rally in Bulawayo that he would easily win the presidential elections, due before April, in which he would challenge President Robert Mugabe.

On Thursday, September 27, the Federal Republic of Nigeria ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, thereby becoming the 39th State Party to the treaty.

Human rights monitors say two civilians were shot dead by a detachment of Special Field Force on a routine patrol along the Okavango River, some 130 km east of Rundu.

President Robert Mugabe's government insists Zimbabwe did not agree to curb violence on white-owned farms under the Abuja land deal.

President Robert Mugabe's government insists Zimbabwe did not agree to curb violence on white-owned farms under the Commonwealth-brokered Abuja land deal.

Continuing violent invasions of Zimbabwean farms are jeopardising the country's food security and crucial foreign exchange inflows from tobacco, according to the Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers' Union.

The Southern African Migration Project (SAMP) wishes to announce the
publication of Migration Policy Series No. 22 on "Immigration, Xenophobia and Human Rights in South Africa" in partnership with the Roll Back Xenophobia Campaign of the South African Human Rights Commission. The paper provides a comprehensive and reliable guide to South African attitudes towards migrants, immigrants and refugees and is available online or in hard copy.

The trial of four men accused of attempting to overthrow the Malawian government in March began on Tuesday with prosecutors alleging that the group had planned to take over the presidential palace and the radio station, AFP reported.

UNHCR has recorded 6,241 new Liberian refugees in western Cote d'Ivoire since early May following renewed fighting between pro- and anti-government forces in Lofa County, northwestern Liberia, a UNHCR official said.

Life is returning to normal in the central Nigerian city of Jos after bloody clashes earlier this month between Muslims and Christians, but there are fears that the underlying tensions may have wider national and international ramifications.

Sudan has taken steps to crack down on members of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network still in the country, United Press International (UPI) reported on Friday.

Rwanda is to set up 11,000 traditional courts, known as Gacaca, to ease pressure on an overburdened prison system now holding 115,000 inmates awaiting trial for the 1994 genocide, the state-owned Rwandan News Agency reported on Monday, quoting the advisor to the Supreme Court, Augustin Nkusi.

There was no activity in Guinea-Bissau's courts on Tuesday as magistrates began a 30-day strike against the dismissal by President Kumba Yala of four members of the Supreme Court, including its president and vice president.

Suspected UNITA rebels attacked a power station on the outskirts of the Angolan capital, Luanda, early on Tuesday - bringing the rebel movement's current wave of attacks closer to the capital than ever before.

In spite of widespread proddings on him to appear before the Justice Chukwudifu Oputa Panel on Human Rights Violations, former Nigerian military President Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, again, fails to honour the summon.

The Bush Administration should signal its allies not to use the fight against terrorism as cover for their own domestic campaigns against political opponents, Human Rights Watch urged today in a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.

The human rights group, Amnesty International (AI) in a new report, is urging the international community to honour its commitments to Sierra Leoneans and bring to justice the perpetrators of serious rights abuses there.

The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs (CCEIA) is seeking short essays (1000-1200 words) for publication in the Fall/Winter 2001 issue of Human Rights Dialogue. The Fall/Winter 2001 issue will explore the nexus of human rights and peace work in conflict situations.

A prosecution witness today claimed before judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) that Jean de Dieu Kamuhanda, former Rwandan minister for higher education and scientific research, ordered killings of ethnic Tutsi who sought refuge at Gikomero Parish during the 1994 genocide.

An analysis, by Samantha Powers, based on newly declassified documents and interviews, frighteningly reveals how self-serving caution, flaccid will and countless missed opportunities by US officials allowed the 1994 Rwandan Genocide to continue.