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05 March 2010
As attacks on the civilian population and humanitarian agencies continue, the government has requested that MONUC, the UN peacekeeping mission, withdraws from the country by June 2011.
25 February 2010
Unrest across the country is linked to calls from supporters of President Gbagbo, for tens of thousands of "foreigners" to be excluded from the electoral roll.
24 February 2010
Gertrude Hambira fled after five men and one women who identified themselves as officers from the Criminal Investigation Department raided her office.
23 February 2010
Radio correspondent Ali Yusuf Adan was taken after the broadcast of a report alleging that the armed group had killed a man in the Wanleweyn district.
11 February 2010
Hundreds of thousands could become vulnerable to increased attacks after the government has insisted that the peacekeeping mission leaves the country when its
mandate expires in March.
10 February 2010
Torture, harassment and politically motivated prosecutions of human rights activists and perceived opponents have persisted since the government's formation a year ago.
03 February 2010
Amnesty International has reiterated its call for the Sudanese authorities to arrest Omar al Bashir, who is already charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes over his role in the Darfur conflict.
19 January 2010
Amnesty International has called on the government to ensure that the attack is not used as an excuse to violate the rights of
citizens in Cabinda through arbitrary arrests and detentions.
14 January 2010
Amnesty International has voiced its concerns that the defendants may have been forced to confess to the 2005 murders of 13 policemen under torture.
09 January 2010
Activists are gathering at events in 15 countries on Saturday to call on world leaders to
take urgent steps to prevent a return to severe and widespread conflict
in Sudan.
01 October 2009
Amnesty International has called for an international commission of inquiry to investigate the brutal attacks committed by soliders during the suppression of a mass rally in Conakry earlier this week.
28 July 2009
The evictions appear to have been carried out as part of the government
of Kenya's plans to build a new road, the Northern Bypass.
25 June 2009
The men had their right hands and left legs amputated by members of the
al-Shabab armed militia in front of a crowd of local people in northern
Mogadishu.
12 June 2009
As Amnesty International ends its high-level mission to Kenya, Secretary General Irene Khan urges the government to tackle impunity for human rights violatio
21 May 2009
20,000 people who live in Warri South and southwest local government
area, in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, are caught in cross fire
between the Joint Task Forc
29 April 2009
The sentencing of eleven men on Sunday, brings to 82 the number condemned to death for their involvement in the attack against the Sudanese government in Khartoum on 1
11 February 2009
Two journalists have been attacked, one fatally, in less than a week in Somalia.
06 January 2009
A worker with the United Nations World Food Programme was killed by unidentified gunmen in southern Somalia, highlights the dangerous environment in which journalists
