Child deaths fall to a new low
According to the United Nations for the first time the number of annual child deaths have fallen below seven million. “The new child mortality estimates show that concerted efforts to get proven lifesaving care to children work and that, in the 21stcentury, children no longer need to die from preventable causes,” said Carolyn Miles, President [...]
Martyrs are NOT thugs!
Hundreds demonstrate in front of the Ministry of Interior (MOI), in downtown Cairo, on the first anniversary of Khaled Said‘s death. Hundreds demonstrated on Monday denouncing continued police torture, in Sheikh Rihan Street, in front of the main gate of the MOI, a place that was a big taboo to even stand at, and which [...]
Second cruel farm murder: Randfontein
Second cruel farm murder hits Randfontein: owner of Vleikop petting-zoo bird sanctuary, ‘tortured to death’… The hidden body of a prominent Randfontein Boer who ran a petting- and bird-sanctuary on his smallholding, was found murdered on 4 June 2011 after an extensive search when the unnamed Boer went missing and four former employees also disappeared. [...]
More protests: death toll in Libya now stands at 173 at least
Death of a young protester in Benghazi. Tens of thousands gathered in Benghazi on Sunday for funerals of protesters killed by Libyan security forces as Human Rights Watch said overnight violence had doubled the death toll from four days of clashes to 173. The unrest is the worst ever during Muammar Qadhafi´s 42 years in [...]
