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/ 14 February 2006
Monitoring human rights abuses around the world can be dangerous, with data collectors, reporters and community members at constant risk of discovery. The Martus project pits the best of the open-source software world against abusers to create a safe and secure environment in which human rights activists can record and store data.
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/ 14 February 2006
Encroachment by subsistence farmers is threatening the survival of the delicate ecosystem of the coastal peat swamp forests of the St Lucia Wetlands Park in Maputaland, on the border of KwaZulu-Natal and Mozambique. But park authorities are reluctant to take action against the farmers.
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/ 14 February 2006
<b>Vicki Robinson</b> reports on a company that has been branded as the country’s flagship of broad-based black economic empowerment.
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/ 14 February 2006
A distant explosion startles villagers in Vistahermosa, a paradise of nature in southern Colombia where the government is working to destroy about 4Â 500ha of coca. But calm returns quickly. After one month, this farm town has gotten used to the bombs.
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/ 14 February 2006
With controversial Muslim cleric Abu Hamza sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for soliciting to murder and race hate offences, British police have revealed to the public what they discovered when they raided his Finsbury Park mosque. Suspicion about terrorist involvement swirled around Hamza and the north London mosque for years.
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/ 14 February 2006
A United Nations inquiry into conditions at Guantánamo Bay has called on Washington to shut down the prison, and says treatment of detainees in some cases amounts to torture, UN officials said on Monday. The report also disputes the Bush administration’s legal arguments for the prison.
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/ 13 February 2006
United Nations peacekeeping troops in Haiti opened fire on demonstrators on Monday near the capital’s international airport, leaving many casualties, according to Haitian police and UN sources. Police said at least one person was killed in the incident, which came after protests grew over the results of last week’s presidential and legislative election.
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/ 13 February 2006
Road crews scrambled to clear highways for Monday’s commuters, and travellers stranded at airports still waited to get home as the United States Northeast dug out from a record-breaking storm that dumped 60cm or more of snow. The storm dropped 68cm of snow in Central Park — the heaviest since record-keeping was started in 1869.
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/ 13 February 2006
Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana has decided to probe Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s holiday trip to the United Arab Emirates last December, despite a public explanation by President Thabo Mbeki. Mlambo-Ngcuka used a South African Air Force plane on her trip, reportedly at a cost of R700 000.