DAKAR, 20 January 2010 (IRIN) – Aid workers in volatile eastern Chad are anxiously watching discussions over the possible exit of UN peacekeepers, after the government has said it wants the mission out when its mandate ends on 15 March.
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 IRIN  15/01/2010Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has indicated he will not back a bill that would impose the death sentence for the crime of “aggravated homosexuality” – when an HIV-positive person has sex with anyone who is disabled or under the age of 18. IRIN 23/10/2009DAKAR, 23 October 2009 (IRIN) – UN aid agencies are expanding assistance to Ivoirian refugees in Guinea, for whom aid plans have been thrown off repeatedly by gridlock over elections and general uncertainty in Ivory Coast. IRIN 24/09/2009DAKAR, 24 September 2009 (IRIN) – Lawyers and rights activists are calling on the African Union’s human rights body to move its headquarters out of The Gambia after President Yahya Jammeh on national television threatened human rights defenders and said he would kill anyone collaborating with them.
IRIN 17/09/2009MONROVIA, 17 September 2009 (IRIN) – In Liberia citizens reaction has been mixed to a 16 September UN Security Council decision extending the UN peacekeeping mission (UNMIL) to assist with the planned 2011 presidential and legislative elections.
IRIN 15/09/2009HARGEISA, 15 September 2009 (IRIN) – There is a need for all-inclusive consultation and support for local mediation efforts in secessionist Somaliland, which has recently experienced sporadic opposition and civil society-led protests over the indefinite postponement of national elections there.
IRIN 26/09/2008The Nigerian government has announced it is unprepared for the tens of thousands of returnees who have fled the southern Bakassi province over the past month, and is calling on the UN to help it handle the unexpected return. Up to 76,000 returnees have registered at 12 sites in [...] IRIN 26/09/2008Unless the Chad government includes rebels in reconciliation talks, the country will continue to face security threats and political crises, says the International Crisis Group (ICG) in its 25 September report. A permanent ceasefire has eluded the violence-wracked country even after numerous rounds of government-rebel peace negotiations since [...] IRIN 26/09/2008Years ago, Mammert Buregeya, a 54-year-old displaced Burundian Tutsi, would probably have refused to live in Muriza “peace village” because that would bring him close to Hutu returnees. “Suspicion between Tutsi IDPs [internally displaced persons] and Hutu returnees is something of the past,” he said after accepting the [...] IRIN 26/09/2008An international NGO has suspended its activities following attacks on its workers in Ituri District, Orientale Province, in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a senior official said. “One of our workers was killed and two others injured,” Arnaud Havet, the project manager with the German NGO Agro [...] |
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