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Somaliland: Election postponed by two months
By: UNPO, March 5, 2009
A much awaited presidential election in Somaliland has been postponed to May 31 [2009], Radio Garowe reports. Mr. Jama Mohamed "Sweden," Somaliland's election commission chairman, told a Monday [2 March 2009] press conference in the regional capital Hargeisa that the election commission has "authority on all election matters." He indicated that there have been private meetings between the election commission, the three political parties and the agency (Interpeace) that facilitates donor funds to support Somaliland's democratic process.
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Aid groups expelled from Sudan
By: Jeffery Allen, One World, March 5, 2009
The Sudanese government revoked the licenses of several aid groups today, just hours after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the country's president. Hundreds of thousands of people in the embattled region of Darfur will now have drastically reduced or no access to food, medicine, and other critical supplies.
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ICC issues arrest warrant for Sudan's leader
By: Marlise Simons and Neil MacFarquhar, NY Times, March 4, 2009
Judges at the International Criminal Court ordered the arrest Wednesday of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan for atrocities committed in Darfur, but Sudanese officials swiftly retaliated, ordering Western aid groups that provide for millions of people to shut down their operations and leave.
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Madagascar in bid to snuff out protests
By: Mail and Guardian, March 4, 2009
Madagascan riot police fired tear gas on Wednesday to disperse protesters gathering for a banned rally in the capital as the island's president vowed tougher measures to counter a drive to unseat him.
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Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai urges unity government to uphold human rights
By: Zim Online, March 4, 2009
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday called on the country's new unity government to uphold human rights and respect the rule of law, saying "violence has no part to play in our political culture". Tsvangirai, who became the southern African country's Prime Minister on February 11 after agreeing to join a power-sharing government with veteran President Robert Mugabe told Zimbabwe's Parliament that any future human rights abuses could lead to arrest and prosecution and said the days of police violently breaking up demonstrations and needlessly arresting people had to come to an end.
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Zimbabwe: Three student leaders arrested at Bindura University demo
By: Lance Guma, SW Radio Africa, March 4, 2009
Three student leaders were arrested by police, following an impromptu demonstration by students at the Bindura University of Science Education on Wednesday. According to Blessing Vava, the spokesman for the Zimbabwe National Students Union, students arrived on campus in the morning to find gates at the institution locked. Security guards were only allowing in the students who had paid their campus fees. Within minutes students had mobilized themselves inside and outside the campus to demonstrate against the move and also denounce the fee reductions announced by the Ministry of Higher Education as inadequate.
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Did Mauritania's military rulers decide to silence the "Pashmerga" media?
By: Menasset, March 3, 2009
Three Mauritanian journalists were jailed in late February - accused of defamation, blackmail and attempting to mislead the public. It's the first case brought against members of Mauritania's press corps since General Muhammad Ould Abdel-Aziz took power in an August 2008 coup d'etat. MENASSAT's Sayyed Ahmad Ould Bab takes a closer look at how this case will affect these so-called "Pashmerga" reporters.
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Maneno, a multilingual blogging platform built for African bloggers
By: Ndesanjo Macha, Global Voices, March 3, 2009
Maneno is a new blogging platform that promises to offer blogging and communication solutions for bloggers with limited or narrow-bandwith in Sub-Saharan Africa. Maneno is a Swahili word, which means "words."
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Twin assassinations leave Guinea-Bissau in turmoil
By: Assima Balde and Rukmini Callimach, Yahoo News, March 2, 2009
The man who ruled this small African nation for nearly a quarter-century was assassinated Monday just hours after a bomb killed his longtime rival, the armed forces chief, leaving behind a precarious power vacuum as the country struggles to stem a booming cocaine trade.
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