Watchdog Reports Zimbabwe Media Reforms are Cosmetic

Zimbabwe’s power-sharing government has not carried out critical media reforms as promised under the country’s September 2008 Global Political Agreement, the US-based Human Rights Watch said in a report Wednesday. The 26-page report, Sleight of Hand...

Prosecutor Requests International Criminal Court Approval to Probe Kenya’s Post-poll Violence

The Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo has disclosed he requested the judges to open formal investigations into Kenya’s 2007 Post elections violence. Ocampo said there had been widespread and systematic attack...

Human Rights Body Calls for Ugandan Police to Use Restraint in Quelling Riots

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has urged Ugandan police to stop using unnecessary lethal force against protesters in Kampala where scores of people were injured and at least four died on Thursday. HRW called for a prompt and impartial investigation into the...

Human Rights Watch Says Zimbabwe’s Government is Failing to Remove Armed Forces From Diamond Fields

The U.S. based Human Rights Watch has accused the Zimbabwean government of refusing to remove its armed forces from diamond fields in the east of the country despite last month’s pledge to clear the soldiers from the area where several atrocities have...