Two explosions ripped through a rally against a proposed new constitution for Kenya being held in Nairobi on Sunday, killing at least five people.
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/ 23 February 2010
Constitutional Court upholds decision interdicting president from granting pardons to perpetrators of political violence without consulting victims.
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/ 22 February 2010
Gunmen shot dead two Iraqi families, mostly children, and beheaded some of the 11 victims on Monday.
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/ 7 September 2009
As many as 320 000 people in the north of the country have been displaced by the LRA as it extends its abduction and terror raids.
Five more people have been arrested for the murder of an African National Congress supporter and the attempted murder of six others in KwaZulu-Natal.
Donors want the Zimbabwe government to stop land seizures, writes Jason Moyo.
Madagascan security forces attempted to arrest opposition leader Andry Rajoelina on Friday, heightening tensions between police and protesters.
Police killings during the post-election violence in January 2008 and a counter-insurgency campaign have been criticised by human rights groups.
Last weekend’s events of violence in KwaZulu-Natal highlighted the schizophrenia plaguing the IFP.
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/ 6 February 2009
In South Africa, we fire nobody, leading to a culture of deep intolerance and impunity.
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/ 3 February 2009
The ANC believes it is too early to contemplate sending the army into KZN, where there are renewed hostilities between the ruling party and the IFP.
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/ 3 February 2009
ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe on Tuesday laid the blame for violence in northern KwaZulu-Natal at the feet of the Inkatha Freedom Party.
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/ 27 January 2009
The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday said it was extremely concerned by attempts to cripple the party in the run-up to the general elections.
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/ 25 November 2008
KZN ANC provincial secretary: Lekota’s continued criticism of the ANC ”makes it difficult for us to appeal for discipline from the people”.
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/ 23 October 2008
The DA has called on the Independent Electoral Commission to act and quell political violence and intimidation, the party said on Thursday.
Gareth Evans’s latest book, Responsibility to Protect, offers a guide to protecting citizens against violence.
Richmond’s former mayor recalls the town’s
low-grade war in the early 1990s with Niren Tolsi.
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/ 13 September 2008
Bolivia declared martial law on Friday in a remote Amazon region where at least 15 people were shot dead in a wave of political violence.