Non-profit organisations are facing a serious funding crisis. It is the kind of crisis that has the potential to threaten SA's young democracy.

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NGOs have put forward demands opposing the continuing talks on economic partnership agreements between the EU and African countries.

The road from Harar runs for more than 960km east towards the border with Somalia, penetrating deep into the desiccated badlands of the Ogaden desert, the dusty heart of Ethiopia's war-torn Somali regional state. This is the land that the self-styled separatists of the Ogaden National Liberation Front claim as their own.

Police torture and brutality are rife and High Court orders are openly disregarded in Zimbabwe, pointing to a "grave constitutional crisis", according to a report released on Wednesday. The most worrying aspect is open attacks on members of the legal profession, said advocate Andrea Gabriel.

The Home Affairs Department's refugee office in Cape Town was a "chaotic" place at which refugees were treated like animals, a parliamentary committee said on Wednesday. The MPs, on an unannounced visit, also discovered that refugees were being illegally detained by officials.