Ugandan Journalist Assassinated in Rwanda: Probe Deepens
The Rwandan State House’s Counter Intelligence has picked up the investigation into the killing of top journalist Charles Ingabire. According to a well-placed army officer, it’s feared Ingabire was killed in highly planned mission. Ingabire met a group of three men at around 10:00pm last night. One of them later left them in the middle of [...]
As Aliens, Smarties and Life Savers Fly Off the Shelves, Report Faults Nestle for Child Labor in Cocoa Plantations
Smarties, Aliens, Life Savers, Kit Kat and Wonka are some of Nestle’s most famous brands, often targeted at children, but what goes on in the cocoa plantations in Ghana and the Ivory Coast?
South Africa: Four Children Die in Desperate Search for Food
Ntando Makhubu – Four South African children starved to death after walking for 18km in search of food. South Africa is Africa’s richest country, and yet has some of the poorest people on the continent.
Rwandan Supreme Court Urged to Release Jailed Reporters
On the eve of the journalists’ appeal to the Supreme Court of Rwanda against their conviction, ARTICLE 19 has submitted an amicus brief to the court
elaborating upon international human rights law on freedom of expression and freedom of media.
Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street: A Good Year for Teargas Manufacturers
Manufacturers of crowd control agents are going through one of their best years in recent times with the surge in demand for tear gas, tear gas grenades and other varieties of riot control equipment in the wake of the Arab Spring, which brought about the fall of three governments in North Africa and has shaken the middle east. Investigative Africa recently conducted research on the rising demand for riot control agents in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, south America and among U.S. municipalities.
Brazil Delays Uranium Enrichment Project to 2018
Brazil has the sixth largest known uranium reserves: more than 300,000 tons, enough to keep 20 atomic power plants of electricity working for 60 years.
Why US COIN Will Not Work
Sun Tzu, Boyd, Svechin, Creveld, Clausewitz, Luttwak, Dayan, and Alexander are just a few of the heavyweights cited by US military/political strategists these days as they attempt to redesign national security strategy, operations and tactics to secure US interests around the globe.
The Real “CSI”: How America’s Patchwork System of Death Investigations Puts the Living at Risk
In detective novels and television crime dramas like “CSI,” the nation’s morgues are staffed by highly trained medical professionals equipped with the most sophisticated tools of 21st-century science. Operating at the nexus of medicine and criminal justice, these death detectives thoroughly investigate each and every suspicious fatality.
Tunisia sacks ministers targeted by protesters
Tunisia’s interim administration sacked more representatives of the ousted regime, bowing to public demand for Cabinet changes, as reports said Canada arrested a relative of the former president.
What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets – A Must Read
A WOUNDED Iraq veteran recuperating in Los Angeles, Sudanese refugees receiving food rations in eastern Chad, U.S. and Russian astronauts sharing dinner in space and a Palestinian taxi driver living outside the Israeli security wall unite to shed light on the widening caloric gap between the rich and the poor in a new book What I Eat, Around the World in 80 Diets by journalists Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio.
Report Warns Against Repeat of Baby Deaths in South African Hospitals Due to Crowding
An investigation into the deaths of six babies at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic hospital last year warned that there was a very real danger of this tragedy repeating itself.
Life and Death Choices as South Africans Ration Dialysis Care
By Sheri Fink, Special to ProPublica Dec. 15, 2010, 3:18 p.m. Late last August, 41-year-old Amos Phillips arrived by ambulance at Tygerberg Academic Hospital near Cape Town, South Africa. His kidneys had failed. He was confused, struggling to breathe, and desperate enough to ask doctors to end his life. The same month, a 43-year-old widow [...]