Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is concerned by the growing tension between the parties to the Western Sahara negotiations, which have increased following the recent detention of several groups of Saharawi activists.

The trial for former Liberian president Charles Taylor took an early adjournment today when immediately after the mid-morning break, one of the judges reportedly fell ill. Prior to the court's adjournment, the accused former Liberian president denied allegations that he

The eviction of squatters from the Mau Forest was top on the agenda of the weekly meeting between President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Tuesday.

CABINET Minister William Ruto has invited Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka and Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta to be the guests of honour at a fundraising in aid of the Mau forest evictees.

In what has been described as a landmark development regarding judicial cooperation between France and Rwanda, two senior judges from the Paris Court of Higher Instance have arrived in the country to investigate Genocide fugitives on French soil.

During school hours the pupils of Claireville Primary in the port city of Durban are spared the jibes and taunts of not being South African nationals, but the welcome ends when they leave the grounds.

Exactly 20 years ago, on 20 November 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) which sets universal standards for the care, treatment and protection of all individuals below the age of

Surely, the decision of the United Nations General Assembly to make July 18 Nelson Mandela International Day is not a surprise to those who follow the sterling life and times of the former South African president.

The full text of remarks by President Barack Obama at the presentation to Magodonga Mahlangu and Jenni Williams of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (Woza) of the 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award at a ceremony in the East Room

Uganda's human rights situation will be reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2011 for the first time.

The first team of French jurists investigating genocide crimes committed by some Rwandan fugitives currently residing in France, have arrived in the country to carry out a series of interviews with various witnesses.

Relief food sent to Bomet and Bureti districts for Mau Forest evictees has been re-directed to Kuresoi.

At least 350 teenage girls are to be circumcised in the next two weeks in Marakwet East and Pokot Central districts.

Violence against women remains a major challenge to the realisation of gender equity in Kenya today, a lobby group has said.

South Rift MPs yesterday snubbed a function in Chepalungu by Prime Minister Raila Odinga in protest over the Mau evictions.

FELISTA Laurent (15) had not been admitted to hospital in her life, until November 4, this year, when she was attacked by his father, Laurent Nyonyo and hospitalised at Tarime District Regional Hospital, with serious wounds. This was after she

More Nigerians have fled the ceded Bakassi Peninsula following intensified harassment of innocent Nigerians living in the area. About 200 persons who recently escaped death and maiming by the gendarmes have arrived the returnee camp at Ekpri Ikang with sorry

First, a glimpse to my bio-data; I am a first-born son to my parents. I have four brothers. Incidentally, my father came from a Muslim family whereas my mom from an Orthodox Christian family. Though, their union was initially frowned

Remarks by Jenni Williams, accepting on behalf of Women of Zimbabwe Arise, the 26th Annual Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, November 23th, 2009 at the White House, Washington, DC.

Remarks by Magodonga Mahlangu accepting the 26th Annual Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, November 23th, 2009 at the White House, Washington, DC.