The NGOs claims for more space in Tanzania

Posted on | mei 4, 2011 | 1 Comment

Ms. Elizabeth Missokia, HakiElimu Executive Director

The Tanzanian Government has been asked to change its attitude towards NGOs that are critical to its governance style and those which by their nature they make a close follow up on accountability. The call was part of the deliberations during the Policy Forum debate at the British Council on Friday last week. They cited some cases whereby the Government had even threatened to deregister some NGOs that were identified as involving themselves in politics quite contrary to their registration.
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If Mugabe, then why not Museveni?

Posted on | mei 3, 2011 | No Comments

Mugabe (UN Photo/Rick Bajornas)

Are Museveni’s sins less despicable than Mugabe’s or Kaddafi’s? Yoweri Museveni’s violent response to mass protests in Uganda – sparked by rising food and fuel prices –-is just one of many such traits found in most dictators in the world (if not in Africa). Media reports suggest that Museveni will stop at nothing but a show of force to repress the uprising by any means necessary. In the course of two weeks of the growing unrest in Uganda, his security forces reportedly opened fire on the protestors, killing two, and wounding more than 120. In addition, a score of people are reported to have been beaten, rounded up and arrested, including women and children.
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Category: politics, Sub-Saharan Africa
Tags: African leaders > autocratic leaders > Burundi > Congo > Dictators > Ivory Coast > Kaddafi > Libya > Mugabe > Narcissistic > Rwanda > Sudan > Uganda > untouchable > Yoweri Museveni

One man was hanged in public in southwest of Iran

Posted on | mei 3, 2011 | No Comments

One man was hanged in public in the southwest Iranian town of Mahshahr, reported the official website of the Iranian judiciary in Khuzestan province.
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Category: human rights, Middle East
Tags: crack > fear > hanged > Iranian judiciary > Khuzestan > Mahshahr > Protests > public > public hangings > Shiraz

Hundreds of Islamic activists clash with police in Bangladesh, 200 detained

Posted on | mei 3, 2011 | No Comments

Hundreds of Islamic activists in traditional white Muslim dress, wearing skull caps and sporting copies of Muslim holy book, the Koran marched in capital Dhaka, where the police imposed ban on holding political rallies from Sunday.
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Category: movement, South Asia
Tags: Allah O’Akbar > detained Dhaka > Eyewitnesses > God is great > Islami Andolan Bangladesh > Islamic activists > Islamic constitution > Koran > Movement for Restoration of Islam in Bangladesh > rallies > Riot > Sharia > Shiekh Hasina > tear gas > water cannon

Osama killed but Hezbollah increasing its power in Lebanon

Posted on | mei 3, 2011 | No Comments

While millions of Americans are celebrating the killing of the world’s Number One terrorist, Osama bin Laden, the global war on terrorism is far from over. Intelligence reports coming out of Israel and Lebanon reveal some disturbing events taking place in Lebanon.

Since the Second Lebanon War in 2006, Hezbollah has increased its power in munitions and number of operatives with tens of thousands of weapons stored in civilian villages throughout southern Lebanon, a direct violation of UN Resolution 1701, according to an Israeli Defense Force intelligence report.
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