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Swaziland: MTN BUSHFIRE Announces 2014 Dates:, May 30th – June 1st

February 25, 2014 Global Author

It’s set to be the largest music festival in the region, and this year it promises the most diverse line-up to date. MTN BUSHFIRE is Swaziland’s biggest collaboration of artists from across the world; a celebration of music, art, and culture. This year the event is to take place from May 30th – June 1st. Going from strength to Going... Read More

Malawi’s Information Minister Brown Mpinganjira accuses foreign envoys of support for mass protests

February 25, 2014 Global AuthorBritain, Brown Mpinganjira, Cashgate, Egypt, Joyce Banda, Libya, Malawi, Tunisia. Bingu Wa Mutharika

BLANTYRE(MaraPost)—Malawi’s Minister of Information and Civic Education, Evangelist Brown Mpinganjira, has accused some foreign envoys in the country of being behind the planning of the anti Joyce Banda administration mass protests slated for Thursday 27 February 2014. Minister Brown Mpinganjira told ZBS on Tuesday that s the reasons cited for the demonstrations scheduled for February 27 are not valid but... Read More

Major Boost for Free Speech in Zambia as Court aquits HIV activist

February 25, 2014 Global AuthorHIV, Lameck Ng'ambi, OSISA, Paul Kasonkomona, Zambia

Lusaka, 25 February – After a lengthy legal process, the renowned Zambian human rights and HIV activist, Paul Kasonkomona, was acquitted today by the Lusaka Magistrate’s Court on charges relating to comments he made on television in support of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people – a ruling that provides a major boost to freedom of... Read More

President Kagame imprisoning students

February 24, 2014 Global Authorgovernment, Jail, Kagame, RPF, Rwanda Terrorist, Students

Open Letter addressed to President Paul Kagame demanding immediate release of Jean Baptiste ICYITONDERWA and stop terrorist acts against leaders of Rwandan students Jean Baptiste Icyitonderwa: one of the four who are still detained by the police and whose head has been seriously injured by the beating according to sources in Kigali. With his colleague Emmanuel Ntakirutimana, they are in a… Read More

Malawians question authenticity of the Forensic audit report claim it was ‘heavily edited’

February 24, 2014 Global AuthorBaker Tilly, Cashgate, Henry Chimunthu Banda, John Tembo, Joyce Banda, Malawi, Paul Mphwiyo

BLANTYRE(AGV)—The Forensic audit report conducted by a British accounting firm, Baker Tilly Business Services Limited into the looting of public resources at Capital Hill continues to attract mixed reactions with economic expert Henry Kachaje saying it is not genuine. "How come it doesn't mention that the Budget Director (Paul Mphwiyo) was the one fighting corruption and looting? How come it... Read More

ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda suffers serious jolt in Kenyan Prosecutions

February 23, 2014October 21, 2016 Global AuthorICC, kenya, Ms Fatou Bensouda, RUTO, Uhuru Kenyatta

Kenya: Nearly a half of the witnesses the prosecution lined up in the two Kenyan cases at the International Criminal Court have withdrawn, puncturing Ms Fatou Bensouda’s case. The ICC prosecutor had lined up 77 prosecution witnesses to testify against President Uhuru Kenyatta, his deputy William Ruto and Kass FM journalist Joshua Arap Sang. But of these, at least 30... Read More

Desmond Tutu castigates Uganda’s anti-gay bill as evil

February 23, 2014 Global AuthorBishop Desmond Tutu, Museveni, South Africa, Uganda

The former Archbishop of Cape Town, Nobel Peace Prize winning Desmond Tutu has compared Uganda’s new anti-gay law to Nazi and Apartheid discrimination. Archbishop Tutu said that the was “very disheartened” that Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is intending to sign a bill into law that could see gay people facing lifetime prison sentence. . Read More

Uganda: Anti-Gay Bill, Museveni responds to Obama

February 23, 2014 Global Authorafrica, Gay Rights, homosexuality, Museveni, Obama, Uganda, USA

I have seen the statement H.E President Obama of the USA made in reaction to my statement that I was going to sign the anti-homosexual Bill, which I made at Kyankwanzi. Before I react to H.E. Obama’s statement, let me, again, put on record my views on the issue of homo-sexuals (ebitiingwa, bisiyaga in some of our dialects). Right from... Read More

Malawi’s Pres. Joyce Banda under fire as activists calls for nationwide demonstrations

February 23, 2014 Global AuthorCashgate, Joyce Banda, Malawi, Paul Mphwiyo

BLANTYRE (MaraPost)--The issue of cashgate scam and Malawi government's delay to make public a forensic audit report on the looting of public resources is refusing to die with Malawi Watch, a human rights organisation, claiming that President Joyce Banda's administration is delaying knowing fully their hands are much "dirty and directly involved". . Read More

South Africa drops the Traditional Courts bill from legislation

February 22, 2014 Global Author

Sonke Gender Justice notes with great elation the lapsing from the legislative processes of the mooted Traditional Courts Bill (TCB). We particularly note the gallant resistance by the Alliance for Rural Democracy, and in particular, rural women who stood to be the most affected. "The campaign against the TCB saw a rare moment of politics of principles triumphing those of... Read More