Africa
Protesters demand bribes from motorists
May 19, 2012
Protesting North West residents have been soliciting bribes and stoning cars travelling between the Lesetlheng village and the Pilanesberg mine, police say….
News24 South Africa
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Tags: IOM airlifts nearly 2,000 South Sudanese from Khartoum
May 19, 2012
By Julius N. Uma May 18, 2012 (JUBA) – At least 1,890 South Sudanese, who were initially stranded in Kosti, a way station located 300km south of Khartoum have been successfully airlifted to South Sudan, the International Organization of Migration (IOM) has announced. The airlift, which began five days ago with two flights a day, is now up to four f…
Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
Justice Denied
May 19, 2012
[New Democrat]
Amidst public concern over the prolonged detention of suspected criminals at the Monrovia Center Prison, Judge George S. Wiles of Criminal Court ‘D’ is urging state prosecutors to attend to their cases in order to reduce overcrowded court dockets….
AllAfrica News: Liberia
Charles Taylor As Arrogant As Maada Bio
May 19, 2012
“There’s nothing as arrogant as having committed a crime and refusing to accept it, even when you have been discovered to be the perpetrator,” was how a Freetown political analyst summed up the lack of remorse displayed yesterday by convicted former President of Liberia, Charles Taylor, for aiding and abetting rebels of the Revolution…
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Golfer Tembo’s Appeal for Sponsorship
May 19, 2012
[Times of Zambia]
VETERAN golfer Paul Tembo is appealing for sponsorship to enable him have a last attempt on the professional circuit having been selected to represent the country during the 2012 Indo-Zambia Bank-Zambia Golf Open that tees off on June 14 to 17 at the Lusaka Golf Club….
AllAfrica News: Zambia
Case opened in tragic accidental shooting
May 19, 2012
A case of culpable homicide has been opened after a Centurion man accidentally shot his daughter, 8, in the head, thinking she was an intruder trying to get into his bedroom….
News24 South Africa
Darfur rebel leader says regime change is the only option for peace in Sudan
May 19, 2012
May 17, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — A Darfur rebel leader said regime change in Khartoum is a radical option but remains the only viable solution to take Sudan out of an endemic political instability and repeated violations of human rights. Abdel Wahid al-Nur, founder of the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) who left France in December 2010, spoke to S…
Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
UN Threatens the Somali Democratic Movement
May 19, 2012
[Fahamu]
Is the authority of the UN and regional bodies divine, such that it cannot be challenged by the Somali people? The only ‘crime’ the Somali democratic movement has committed is to dare dream of freedom in the land of its birth….
AllAfrica News: Somalia
UN monitors stayed with Syria activists
May 19, 2012
Six members of a UN observer team which came under bomb attack in Khan Sheikhun were forced to stay the night with anti-regime activists in the northwest Syrian town, an activist said Wednesday. “The monitors had to stay behind after their car was damaged by the blast,” said Khan Sheikhun-based activist Abu Hammam. The monitors [...]…
The Independent Daily
New media, Libya and the shift in politics now civilians have “rushed the field”
May 19, 2012
There was an interesting conversation between Noel Thompson and Jonathan Chavez on Hearts and Minds last night, regarding how new media is changing politics Well earlier in the week, I’d been conducting my own series of interviews with John Pollock who is contributing editor to MIT’s Technology Review His latest work looks for a feel below the ….
Libya News
