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Category: Southern Africa

Southern Africa, southernmost region of the African continent, comprising the countries of Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Hakainde Hichilema Southern Africa Zambia 

​​​Zambia must Drop trumped-up treason charges against Hakainde Hichilema immediately

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Zambian authorities must drop trumped-up treason charges against main opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema and his five employees and release them unconditionally, Amnesty International said today ahead of his bail hearing. The six were arrested on 11 April after they allegedly failed to give way to a Presidential convoy. They claim they were beaten, teargassed and pepper sprayed on their genitals… Read More
Swaziland Gateway Getaways Southern Africa 

Swaziland’s iconic MTN Bushfire Festival is back for 2017

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Swaziland is well known for its stunning landscapes and exciting game but also for its festivals. MTN Bushfire, Swaziland’s internationally acclaimed music and arts festival invites you to Bring Your Fire and experience three unforgettable days celebrating music, arts and performance whilst promoting social responsibility. Named Africa’s Top Festival by the BBC and by CNN as one of the 7… Read More
Mutharika and Kagame Malawi 

Malawi President Mutharika says to borrow leaf from Rwanda’s Paul Kagame on decent housing program

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President Peter Mutharika says Malawi will borrow a leaf from Rwanda on how it managed to turn 99 percent of its mud and grass thatched house into modern decent houses for its citizens within 10 years. Mutharika said this during a press briefing on his return from the 18th Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) heads of state... Read More
Mr Evasoni Loki Southern Africa 

Ending Avoidable Blindness in Malawi

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On Monday 13 March, Commonwealth Day, Her Royal Highness The Countess of Wessex GCVO, daughter-in-law of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second and Vice Patron of The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust, will begin a visit to Malawi to see Trust programmes there. Four out of five people who are blind in Malawi and across the world do not need… Read More
albinisms Southern Africa 

Malawi should Step up action to end ritual murders of people with albinism

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International Human rights body says Malawian authorities must step up action to protect people with albinism who are being targeted for ritual murders, Amnesty International said today, following another attack in the country’s capital Lilongwe.   According to AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Last night four men attempted to drill through the wall of the home of Gilbert Daire, former president of the… Read More
Lesotho Military Lesotho Southern Africa 

Lesotho must quash ‘mutiny’ charges against freed soldiers

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In response to the release on “open arrest” today of the final seven Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) members detained on mutiny charges since 2015, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for Southern Africa, Deprose Muchena said: “Today’s release of the seven members of the Lesotho Defence Force, after almost two years in detention without trial on mutiny charges, is a long overdue… Read More
Malawi Chiefs OP-ED Southern Africa 

Traditional Chiefs Contributing to Political and Economic Crisis in Malawi

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Politics of Malawi has raped and defiled traditional powers of chiefs as chiefs have been reduced to victims of abuse and manipulation by state political powers. While politicians are voted into power chiefs are born as such. The role of traditional chiefs from paramount, senior, traditional authority, group village headman to a mere village headman has been misinterpreted. Our chiefs… Read More
Lazarus Chakwera OP-ED Southern Africa 

Malawi Chiefs Castigating Opposition is a form of Censorship?

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Sentiments by a segment of Malawi chiefs castigating leader of opposition in the country cannot go without being vindicated. The platform that Lazarus Chakwera took is an appropriate podium because both Peter Mutharika and leader of opposition answers to the public. For chiefs to instigate that Lazarus Chakwera committed treasonous crime when he was doing his rightful obligations explains the… Read More
Human Rights South Africa 

SONKE STUDY REVEALS ALARMING LEVELS OF MEN’S VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

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Results just released from a study conducted by the University of Witwatersrand and Sonke Gender Justice with 2600 men in Diepsloot, a peri-urban settlement north of Johannesburg,  reveal some of the highest levels of men’s violence against women ever recorded in South Africa. These levels of violence represent a state of emergency for women in Diepsloot. Our study shows that… Read More
Elizabeth Taylor to fight AIDS in Malawi Investments Leaders Southern Africa 

Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation launch $4 million toward controlling the AIDS epidemic in Malawi

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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation (ETAF) today announced a $4 million, two-year partnership to accelerate progress toward controlling the AIDS epidemic through innovative strategies to reach men aged 25-40 with HIV prevention and treatment services in Malawi. Read More
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