Just 2 days after the MDC MP for Mutasa Central in Manicaland was arrested while reporting the abduction of a youth member, another elected opposition official has been taken into police custody.

Congo's reconstruction hinges on the Ituri district, where a new integrated peace-building strategy is required to prevent another round of violence.

Many people under the age of 18 were arrested and imprisoned during riots over high food prices in February and more than two months later some are still behind bars.

Carlos Feudjio Diffo, now 22, spent a year of his life in Douala's notorious central prison when he was 15. He recounted his experience to IRIN.

A group of Muslim clerics in central Somalia were briefly arrested and later released by Ethiopian soldiers deployed to help restore order in the chaotic Horn of Africa country, our central regions correspondent reported.

South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki last week appointed a delegation of six retired generals to investigate the violence in Zimbabwe. No details have been supplied as to who is in the group but it has been reported that Mbeki began

The United Nations has asked the government to help it conduct an assessment to evaluate the extent of politically motivated violence, which "could reach crisis levels", warned Agostinho Zacarias, the UN Resident Representative and Humanitarian Coordinator in Zimbabwe.

The risk of renewed violence in Ituri is limited today by the presence of the UN Mission in the Congo (MONUC), the dismantling of the majority of armed groups and the local population's war weariness after years of suffering and

The Mauritanian government says it is trying to increase prosecutions of rape cases but poorly trained judges working with murky, outdated legal texts make for slow progress.

Ongoing military activities by Darfur's rebel groups as well as reprisal actions by the Sudanese Government and its allied militia are costing lives and limiting humanitarian operations in the strife-torn region, the United Nations Secretary-General says today.

Police in Harare have barred the MDC from holding public rallies in the capital, ahead of the presidential run-off whose date has not yet been announced.

President George W. Bush should urge Israel to reverse its strict closure policy towards the Gaza Strip, three human rights groups said in a letter to the US president today (http://hrw.org/english/docs/2008/05/12/isrlpa18808.htm). Human Rights Watch and two Israeli human rights groups,

Government Detains More Than 100 Opponents Mass arrests in Khartoum of perceived supporters of a Darfur rebel group and other political opponents raise fears of mistreatment, Human Rights Watch said today. The arrests by Sudanese security forces of more than

Charges Violate Precepts of Law, Freedom of Expression Courts in Jeddah should dismiss cases against a Saudi web critic and a Turkish barber charged with "insulting" Islam, an unequivocal violation of freedom of expression protected under international law, Human Rights

Kyrgyz authorities should not forcibly return an Uzbek asylum seeker to Uzbekistan, Human Rights Watch said today.

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