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The Cross and the Genocide
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Prisoners at Guantánamo Bay
Tunisia
Politics | Society | Human rights

Secrete prisons and torture revealed in Tunisia

afrol News - The International Red Cross office in Tunis confirms the existence of several "non-notified" secret prisons in Tunisia. Diplomats say Tunisian assurances they do not practice torture are "crap" and "bullshit".

Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza
Burundi
Politics | Human rights

Burundi heading towards dictatorship?

afrol News - With opposition parties partly banned, journalists imprisoned and reports of torture, President Pierre Nkurunziza is rooting out critical voices in Burundi. New reports indicate a dictatorship is being implemented.


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Wangpala school in Kenya
Kenya | Africa
Society | Human rights | Science - Education

Abolishing fees boosts African schooling

Africa Renewal - When the Kenyan government announced it would stop charging fees for primary school education - just days before the beginning of the 2003 school year - the result was pandemonium. Teachers, headmasters and parents scrambled to find desks, pencils and books for over a million extra students. Many African countries have followed Kenya's example.

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In the news - 2004
Africa
Agriculture - Nutrition | Economy - Development | Human rights | Politics | Society

Africa highlights 2004 by afrol News

afrol News - Negative news often dominate the international coverage of Africa. 2004 however has seen much more than the crises in Darfur and Côte d'Ivoire. Peace has returned to many more countries, democracy and human rights are strengthening in Africa and the economy is booming in many countries. The link between democracy and development has been demonstrated and the outlook for 2005 is mostly positive.

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The Cross and the genocide in Rwanda
Rwanda
Society | Human rights

The Cross and the Genocide

afrol News - The 1994 Rwandan genocide, killing an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, is made even more incomprehensible by the documented participation of many representatives of Rwandan church societies. How could God fearing nuns, and even a bishop, take part in the most cruel crimes against humanity committed on African soil? Even worse, several church societies allegedly were co-responsible for the growing hatred that led to the genocide. It remains an enormous contradiction to the Christian Message of Love.

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Homosexuality and Islam
Algeria
Human rights | Gay - Lesbian | Society

Holy hatred: Homosexuality in Muslim countries

afrol News - Anissa Helie, with Algerian and French background, analyses the rights situation of gays and lesbians in the Muslim world in this article previously published in the New Internationalist.

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