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/ 28 November 2005
Two Britons were killed and three injured on Monday when gunmen attacked a bus carrying Muslim pilgrims south of Baghdad, police and hospital officials said, the day after four humanitarian workers were reported kidnapped. Also on Monday, a mortar shell fell in central Baghdad’s Green Zone and two others fell nearby.
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/ 23 November 2005
Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms broke into the home of a senior Sunni leader on Wednesday and killed him, his three sons and his son-in-law on the outskirts of Baghdad, his brother and an interior ministry official said. Also, US and Iraqi troops launched an anti-insurgent operation in predominately Sunni western Iraq on Tuesday.
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/ 16 November 2005
Iraq’s main Sunni Arab political party has demanded an international investigation into allegations that security forces illegally detained and tortured suspected insurgents at secret jails in Baghdad. Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari confirmed on Tuesday that prisoners were found malnourished and possibly tortured by government security forces.
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/ 16 November 2005
Iraq’s main Sunni Arab political party on Wednesday demanded an international investigation into allegations that security forces illegally detained and tortured suspected insurgents at secret jails in Baghdad. Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari confirmed on Tuesday that more than 173 interior ministry prisoners were found malnourished and possibly tortured by government security forces.
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/ 31 October 2005
Zanzibar’s opposition leader condemned weekend presidential and legislative elections as not free and fair, speaking on Monday after riot police fired tear gas and water cannons on his supporters. Seif Shariff Hamad said about 8Â 000 people were denied their right to vote in the elections.
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/ 21 October 2005
With too many weapons, too little food and three factions vying for control, Somalia’s anarchy is fast overwhelming its new government even before it can establish itself in the country. The competition for power could combine with a potential humanitarian crisis for a repeat of the disaster that followed the collapse of Somalia’s last regime in 1991.
At least three of the four suspects in the July 21 attempted bombings on the London subway and a bus were born in East Africa, where al-Qaeda-linked groups still operate and may be growing in strength, according to a new assessment by counterterrorism experts.
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Friday insisted a draft Constitution pushed through Parliament by his ruling coalition will improve Kenya, though protesters who clashed with police as lawmakers debated the charter complain it gives him too much power. Lawmakers voted 102 to 61 to approve the draft Constitution.
Ethiopians voted by the millions, responding enthusiastically to a open parliamentary race between the coalition that ended a brutal dictatorship and an opposition promising greater liberalisation. But on Monday, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi declared a ban on demonstrations and open meetings in Addis Ababa.
Campaigning in Ethiopia’s parliamentary elections officially ended on Friday ahead of a weekend vote that will be a critical test of freedom and democracy in one of the United States’s closest allies in Africa. The balloting marks the end of a race that has tested the tolerance of regime that has ruled the Horn of Africa nation since 1991.