Haitians Facing 'Intolerable Breach of Human Dignity'
Colette Gadenne, who has been managing MSF's activities in Haiti over the last few weeks, and Christopher Stokes, General Director of MSF in Brussels, recently returned from Haiti. Almost two months after the devastating earthquake, they gave their views on the situation and stressed "broadly insufficient" aid on the ground. What is the situation on the gr

Massacre in Nigeria - Jos
Over 200 people, mostly women and children, were murdered in the early hours of yesterday following attacks on Dogo-Na-Hawa, Ratsat and Jeji villages in Foron district, Jos South Local Government Area, Plateau State. The attacks were visited on the Berom villages by men suspected to be Hausa-Fulani fighters who had descended from the hills from where they launched into the villages at a

Zimbabwe's Unity Government In Trouble
THE shaky inclusive government is facing renewed danger of collapse after ongoing inter-party negotiations yielded a stalemate over contentious issues confronting the three rival parties currently running the country. Informed sources said the inclusive government was now hanging in the balance and under threat following failed talks last week and Zanu PF's defiant position this week on negotiatio

Sixteenth ordinary session of the Africa Union opens in Addis Ababa
  Addis Ababa, 28 January 2010 – The official opening of the Sixteenth Ordinary Session of the Executive Council took place on Thursday 28 January 2010, at the headquarters of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, under the Chairmanship of Mr. Moussa Koussa, Secretary of International Cooperation to the People’s General Committee in charge of External Liais