Africa News Update
Africa News Update offers news, background and feature articles from African sources twice weekly. The newsletter is free of charge and is edited by the Norwegian Council for Africa. Some of the articles may be shortened.
Kenya: Minister suspended over hate speech
Nairobi (Kenya) — A Kenyan minister has been suspended from government, a day after he was charged with incitement to violence. Read >
Thursday, 17 June 2010
The Nation (Kenya)
Kenya: Social media spreads draft constitution in local dialects
Nairobi (Kenya) - Most Kenyans are reading the draft constitution in English or Kiswahili, but for the net generation or generation Ys, technology has lifted them to another level, providing the document online and in an alternative language - sheng. Read >
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Business Daily (Kenya)
Chad: Former dictator's lawyers reject foreign aid for trial
Dakar (Senegal)- Lawyers of the former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre, have rejected the use of foreign funding to organise the trial of their client. Read >
Thursday, 17 June 2010
The Nation (Kenya)
Zimbabwe: Queen Elizabeth honours farmer who took on Mugabe
Johannesburg (South Africa) — Ben Freeth, a Zimbabwean farmer who with his father-in-law, Mike Campbell, spearheaded and won a Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Tribunal case to keep his farm in Zimbabwe, has been awarded an MBE (Member of the British Empire) in Queen Elizabeth's birthday honours list. Read >
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Business Day (South Africa)
Ghana: Civil society express concern on oil spillage
Accra (Ghana) - Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have expressed concern about the spate of oil spillage in the country even when commercial production of the commodity has not commenced. Read >
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Accra Mail (Ghana)
Somalia: Taking shelter in Hargeisa
Hargeisa (Somalia) — Khadra Osman Ismail collected tyre tubes, empty sacks, old clothes and boxes, then sat down to stitch together the new roof of her shelter in Hargeisa, capital of Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland. Read >
Thursday, 17 June 2010
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)
Rwanda: Government "surprised" by tribunal's u-turn on US lawyer
Kigali (Rwanda) - Prosecutor General, Martin Ngoga, yesterday said that the Government was surprised by a demand from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) seeking the release of American defence lawyer, Peter Erlinder. Read >
Thursday, 17 June 2010
The New Times (Rwanda)
Africa: The reparations movement has a strong legal and moral basis (opinion)
Most of African descendants and many of the non-African descendants have heard about the 'gates of no return'. Read >
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Pambazuka News, by Antumi Toasijé*
Somalia: Risking life and limb for football
Mogadishu (Somalia) - "Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that," former Liverpool manager Bill Shankly once said. Uncomfortably close to a bald statement of fact for fans of the beautiful game in Somalia, who risk their lives to watch the World Cup unfolding in South Africa. Read >
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Inter Press Service (IPS)