Conflicts / Tags / Africa

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu May 22, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

BBC News -- Several thousand foreigners have fled South Africa after days of violent attacks by angry mobs. Mozambique is laying on special buses, which have taken some 9,000 people home this week, an official said. Some Zimbabweans are also going home, preferr.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue May 20, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- South African security ministers have been discussing using the army to help stop a wave of attacks on foreigners, which has left at least 23 people dead. The deployment of troops, which has been demanded by human rights groups and the opposition, coul.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Oct 11, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

BBC News -- A report on armed conflict in Africa has shown that the cost to the continent's development over a 15-year period was nearly $300bn (�146bn). The research was undertaken by a number of non-governmental organisations, including Oxfam. It says the c.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri May 23, 2008 @ 8:23am neoform

BBC News -- Violence against foreigners in South Africa spread to Cape Town overnight with people assaulted and shops looted. "Groups within the crowd started to loot shops owned by Zimbabweans and other foreigners," police spokesman Billy Jones told AFP news agen.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Apr 22, 2008 @ 8:24am neoform

BBC News -- The ship carrying weapons to Zimbabwe may return to China after being prevented from unloading in South Africa, a Chinese official has said. Zambia's president has called on other African countries not to let the ship enter their waters, in case the ar.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Mar 4, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- Black students on a university campus in central South Africa resumed their protests Tuesday against a racist video that showed white students tricking black workers into tasting stew laced with urine. Protesters barged into classes at the University of t.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Aug 9, 2007 @ 8:29am neoform

BBC News -- Aids activists and opposition parties have criticised the sacking of South Africa's deputy health minister, after she went to a Spanish Aids conference. "This is a dreadful error of judgement that will harm public healthcare," said the Treatment Action.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sat Apr 28, 2007 @ 2:00pm neoform

USA Today -- In this forgotten corner of Africa devastated by a forgotten conflict, no men work, no women cook, no children attend school. Here, there is not a soul in sight. Here, empty homes stand silently side by side: straw roofs burned away, dry mud walls s.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Mar 23, 2007 @ 4:25pm neoform

BBC News -- South Africa's deputy foreign minister has made the country's strongest comments on neighbouring Zimbabwe, saying it was on the brink of meltdown. Aziz Pahad said it was now difficult to see how the country could avoid a complete collapse. South Afr.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Mar 20, 2007 @ 12:42am neoform

CNN -- South Africa wants to drop all key U.N. sanctions proposals against Iran that were negotiated by major powers, including an arms embargo and financial bans on an Iranian state bank and the Revolutionary Guards. While the draft could probably be adopted.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Mar 18, 2007 @ 12:37pm neoform

CNN -- Four representatives of Zimbabwe's main opposition party were arrested this weekend as they tried to leave the country for neighboring South Africa, including one who said he was badly beaten, a spokesman for Movement for Democratic Change told CNN. Ne.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 11:34am neoform

CNN -- Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Friday lambasted African silence about the brutal treatment of democracy activists in Zimbabwe. "We Africans should hang our heads in shame," said Tutu, who is widely regarded as South Africa's moral cons.. Read More

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Feb 13, 2007 @ 9:59am neoform

CNN -- Warlords are forcing children in conflicts around the world to become killing machines -- nothing more than what one child advocate calls "cannon fodder." Some children are kidnapped from their schools or their beds, some are recruited after seeing the.. Read More

CONFLICTS / OPINION Tue Jan 16, 2007 @ 10:48am mrmdc

New York Times -- Sometimes I feel that living in New York City, having a good family and friends, and just being alive is a dream, that perhaps this second life of mine isn’t really happening. Whenever I speak at the United Nations, Unicef or elsewhere to raise awarenes.. Read More