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ALERT – NIGERIA: Unidentified gunmen kill journalist, police involvement suspected

Thursday, August 21, 2008

On 17 August 2008 at about 10.30 p.m. (local time), Mr. Paul Abayomi Ogundeji, a member of the editorial board of the Lagos-based private daily...

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The youth and crime

Africa » Gambia

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

If there is anything that The Gambia can boast of, it is its culture of peace and stability; that invaluable commodity that is in short supply right...

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UGANDA: Ray Apire: "Nobody wanted to be a rebel"

africa » uganda » gulu

Tuesday, August 05, 2008

Ray Apire fought for the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) for 10 years, rising to the position of major and commander, until he surrendered in...

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BURUNDI: Human rights record "shows no improvement"

africa » burundi » bujumbura

Friday, July 25, 2008

At least 400 people were killed in the first quarter of 2008, which indicates that Burundi's human rights record has failed to improve this year,...

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Sudan ambush leaves seven peacekeepers dead, more than a dozen wounded

africa » sudan » darfur region

Thursday, July 10, 2008

At least seven United Nations peacekeepers are dead, and nearly two dozen wounded, after Janjaweed militants in Darfur, Sudan, ambushed their convoy...

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SOMALIA: Hundreds of families displaced by fighting in Baidoa

africa » somalia » baidoa

Thursday, July 10, 2008

A number of people were killed and injured and hundreds of families displaced, after a night of heavy fighting in the southwestern town of Baidoa,...

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SOMALIA: UNDP officer murdered in Mogadishu

africa » somalia » mogadishu

Monday, July 07, 2008

Unidentified gunmen shot and killed the officer in charge of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) office in Mogadishu, on 6 July, according to UN...

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Guinean lady freed of infanticide charges

africa » gambia

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

A Guinean lady, Jainaba Jallow, was yesterday afternoon exonerated from infanticide charges, this paper can reveal.Jainaba was being tried by the...

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Woman mutilated to death

africa » gambia » north bank

Monday, June 09, 2008

Unimpeachable sources informed the Daily Observer about a heavy-handed brutal killing of one Adama Sonko at Berending Village in Lower Niumi, North...

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16-Year-Old Boy in Police Net for Allegedly Killing Friend

africa » gambia

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

A boy, 16,(name withheld) from Tallinding has reportedly been arrested for allegedlykilling a friend on Saturday. Sources said the two, together with...

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