Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Algiers' historic Casbah, or old quarter, bears the hallmarks and the scars of the country's turbulent past. During the bloody black decade of Algeria's 1990s civil war, the Casbah was the feared bastion of Isl...
Human rights activists are warning that an upsurge of political violence in Zimbabwe is threatening reconciliation and will make it impossible to hold free and fair elections due next year. The Human Rights Watch group issued the warning Tuesday in J...
Burmese pro-democracy activists have welcomed the stated policy approach by the new Thai government and its call for political change in Burma ahead of Burma's general elections, scheduled for 2010. The Thai Government is also looking to other South...
By Nico Colombant Abidjan 15 June 2006 Human rights activists are giving mixed reviews to a decision by Britain to jail Charles Taylor if Liberia's former president is convicted for his role during Sierra Leone's civil war. The decision paves the wa...
By Dan Robinson Washington 06 April 2006 Demonstrators on Darfur outside US Capitol Activists pressing for stronger U.S. and international action on Darfur rallied at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday. As we...
By Nico Colombant Abidjan 30 March 2006 The U.N. helicopter sets off from Monrovia airport, Liberia, March 29, 2006, with captured former Liberian President Charles Taylor, en route to Sierra Leone Li...
By Franz Wild Abidjan 14 March 2006 An unidentified woman walks on oil pipeline belonging to the Shell oil company as armed militants in Nigeria are vowing to further cut daily oil exports A new repor...
By Lisa Schlein Washington 09 February 2006 Anti-tobacco campaigners accuse tobacco companies of undermining a global tobacco control treaty and national policies based on it. They are urging delegate...
By Sonja Pace Jerusalem 27 January 2006 Thousands of Palestinian activists from the once ruling Fatah party protested in Gaza Friday night and called on party leaders to resign. The demand comes after...
By Sonja Pace Jerusalem 25 January 2006 Palestinian family look at a voting list outside a polling station in the West Bank City of Jenin, 25 January 2006 Palestinians are voting for a new parliament...