Calls grow for release of Meriam Yahya Ibrahim and her toddler son and for her sentence, including 100 lashes, to be rescinded Sudan is facing mounting condemnation for sentencing a pregnant woman to be whipped and then hanged for adultery and apostasy, and for keeping her shackled in prison with her toddler son a month before she is due to give birth. Governments, the UN and human rights groups have...
Former Nigerian soldier Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche suspected of being a ringleader of Islamist militants Boko Haram A British-born citizen who once served in the Nigerian army has been arrested on suspicion of being a ringleader of the Islamist militants who killed 105 people in two bomb blasts in Nigeria last month. Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, in his 30s, was arrested this week in Sudan after Interpol issued an...
New research lays bare discrimination faced by gay people in not a single country do they enjoy equal rights as heterosexuals LGBT rights around the world an interactive More than 2.7 billion people live in countries where being gay is punishable by imprisonment, lashes or even death, new research obtained by the Guardian shows. The stark figure from the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA)...
12 - 16 May: Been offline? Catch up on the development-related news, images, infographics and reports that matter Prof Aderemi Kuku , who has been elected as the fourth president of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) . Make us proud to be human #myclimateask http://t.co/lYzlnFDDZ6 pic.twitter.com/Xh9rhPdPqm Continue reading... ...
Amnesty International joins condemnation of death penalty for Sudanese doctor found guilty of 'apostasy' for marrying Christian A Sudanese doctor who married a Christian man and who was convicted earlier this week on charges of apostasy was sentenced to death on Thursday, judicial officials said. According to the Sudanese officials, 26-year-old Meriam Ibrahim, whose father was Muslim, was convicted...
Muslims fleeing Christian mobs say new state needed as UN warns of 'ethnic-religious cleansing' but analysts dismiss idea Rebels in the Central African Republic are calling for the establishment of a new country as a radical solution to the worsening sectarian conflict . The name the Republic of Northern Central Africa and a design for a national flag, are circulating by mobile phone in the dusty town...
Cleaner stoves have saved Sudan over 36,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions and earned the country its first carbon credits While attention in the sector has recently been focused on the IPCC's latest report on climate change, in Sudan women have been quietly making breakthroughs by issuing the country's first carbon credits. In a country blighted by conflict and drought, the Women's Development...
International development secretary says system must be overhauled to ensure that more is done to prepare for disasters The global humanitarian aid system is being "stretched to breaking point" by climate change, war, population growth and extremism, and must be overhauled to ensure that more is done to prepare for disasters rather than merely relieve them, the British government will warn...
In sending troops after one man, it's as if Washington has learned the lessons of a failed viral YouTube video rather than genocide Ugandas most acclaimed musician, Jose Chameleone, is holding his annual concert here this weekend, almost exactly two years after the famous the famous Kony 2012 video tried and failed to bring the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) leader Josephy Kony to justice in the court...
With the contemporary art scene on the continent flourishing, The Culture Trip suggests some of the people worth watching Exiled from Zimbabwe after producing an unflattering portrait of the countrys president, Robert Mugabe, Kudzanai Chiurai , the first black artist to get a BA in fine arts at the University of Pretoria, has become an important figure in African art. Chiurai uses dramatic multimedia...
Amnesty International study finds murder, rape and looting have origins in community hostility caused by Sudan's failing economy Civilians in central Darfur, Sudan, have been deliberately targeted and subjected to unlawful killings, sexual violence including rape, and looting after fighting between two Arab tribes intensified, Amnesty International said on Friday. Elements of government paramilitary...
s Bitter and Incomplete Divorce Part one: South Sudan: new country, same old mistakes? On a particularly sweltering day in early May 2011, a soldier called Angelo Adam Juju Baba set out to have a drink. It was two months before South Sudan seceded , and just a month before a new war would break out in Angelo's region of Sudan, the Nuba mountains , though of course he did not know this yet. Angelo was...
s authors call on governments and international tribunals to give greater protection to education, and say the UN, regional peacekeepers and all sides in conflicts should refrain from using schools or universities for military purposes. In 24 countries, researchers found that armed forces – both state and non-state – used school buildings as bases, weapons caches, prisons and even torture chambers,...
s sentence condemned by activists who say it will discourage other rape victims from speaking out A pregnant teenager who was gang-raped and ignored when she tried to report the crime has been convicted of "indecent acts" by a court in Sudan. The victim, an Ethiopian migrant, was sentenced to one month in prison, which has been suspended, and fined 5,000 Sudanese pounds (£528). The verdict was condemned...
At an Israeli safe house, Ethiopian women sold into slavery team up with a photographer to tell their stories Harriet Grant ...
A short story by South Sudanese writer David Lukudu , first published on Warscapes ...
s judiciary has received millions of pounds in aid from the UK. The 18-year-old Ethiopian, who is nine months pregnant, is being held in a police cell and until recently was sleeping on a bare concrete floor without a mattress or suitable food or clothing, according to the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) network . SIHA accused Sudan of discriminating against the alleged...
s bad. Very bad," he says quietly. The Reuters reports describes a convoy of more than two dozen vehicles carrying heavily armed Seleka rebels leaving Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), and heading north. The news fills the city's archbishop with gloom. "They needed to be held accountable for what they had done. We cannot have impunity," he says wearily. His friend and companion...
economic migrants' – they won't be deported, but may be sent to a desert detention centre Thousands of asylum-seekers who entered Israel illegally from Sudan and Eritrea have staged protests outside UN offices and foreign embassies in Tel Aviv, accusing Israel of neglecting its responsibilities under the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees. At the same time, supporters held parallel protests at Israeli...
t attend a film festival in Sudan because I was denied a visa. Will governments ever understand national identity? This week, my film Faisal Goes West , the imaginary journey of a young man from Khartoum to a chicken farm in Texas, screened at the opening ceremony of the Sudan Independent Film Festival in Khartoum, Sudan. This is the first edition of the festival, and the first of its kind for the...