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RIGHTS-AFRICA: AU Heeds Perpetrators Not Victims
By Diletta Varlese
Sirte, LIBYA - The final day of the African Union summit has been dedicated to the issue of the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, charged with seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, rape and torture.
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KENYA: A Role For Men in Gender Equality
By Joyce Mulama
NAIROBI - The recent Gender Festival in Kenya has underlined the important role that male activism can play in achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment.
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DR-CONGO: U.N.-Backed Troops Abusing Civilians, HRW Says
By Marina Litvinsky
WASHINGTON - United Nations-backed Congolese armed forces conducting intensified military operations in eastern and northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have failed to protect civilians from brutal rebel retaliatory attacks and instead are themselves attacking and raping Congolese civilians, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday.
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LIBERIA: Controversial Mayor is Talk of the Town
By Rebecca Murray
MONROVIA - Myaha Johnson sits with her family beneath a flimsy shelter of black plastic, looking with despair at the charred remains of what used to be their home. Mary Broh, Monrovia’s controversial mayor-designate, had just swept through the neighbourhood with her task force, vigorously tearing down residential structures along the back road, including their own.
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AFRICA: Maternal Mortality, A Human Rights Catastrophe
Analysis by Rosemary Okello and Terna Gyuse
BRUSSELS and CAPE TOWN - The right to the highest attainable standard of health: not the most fashionable of human rights, but the limits on people's enjoyment of their right to health often coincide with continuing inequalities behind claims of economic growth or political reform.
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HEALTH-SENEGAL: Fistula Sufferers Left To Their Fate
By Koffigan E. Adigbli

DAKAR - In Senegal’s southern region, 58 percent of deliveries take place at home without any medical assistance, according to state reproductive health officials in Kolda, a town 425 km from the capital, Dakar. Women in the region suffer from exceptionally high rates of fistula.
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KENYA: Report Charges Killing, Torture and Rape by Security Forces
By Katie Mattern
WASHINGTON - Human Rights Watch (HRW) is calling for an immediate investigation of Kenyan security officials it says were sent to protect civilians in the country’s northeastern Mandera district during the move to disarm the heavily militarised region in October 2008, but who beat and tortured those civilians instead, according to the report released Monday.
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MIDEAST: Arabs Court U.S. via Baghdad
By Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa Al-Omrani
CAIRO - Egypt finally appointed an ambassador to Iraq earlier this month after four years without diplomatic representation in Baghdad. While the last year has seen other Arab capitals do likewise, some critics question the wisdom of the move in light of Iraq's still volatile security situation.
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POLITICS-SOUTH SUDAN: Women Ready To Take Their Place
By Joyce Chimbi
JUBA - When the women of South Sudan welcomed the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005, they were cognizant of the fact that true democracy will be realised only when their human rights are realised.
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RIGHTS-GAMBIA: Who Killed Deyda Hydara?
By Ebrima Sillah and Zahira Kharsany
DAKAR and JOHANNESBURG - Six of the eight Gambian Press Union (GPU) officials and journalists arrested last week have now been freed on bail. The journalists still face serious charges including "conspiracy to publish with seditious intention".
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US-SUDAN: Limited Progress Made to Rescue Peace Accord
By Marina Litvinsky and Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - The United States Tuesday urged the government of Sudan and former rebels in the south to re-invigorate their 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), as 30 Sudanese political leaders met with 170 observers from 32 countries and international organisations here to discuss the faltering CPA, which expires in 2011.
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