Africa News - Uganda: Ugandan journalist, Angeli Izama, was arrested and charged Wednesday for defamation. Political columnist for the independent Daily Monitor newspaper, he likened the regime of President Yoweri Museveni dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines in an article published December 20, 2009.
"It was a commentary, an analysis was hypothetical," said the lawyer, Anne Abeja-Muhwezi. The arrest "due to the preparation of presidential and parliamentary elections" of 2011. "The government wants to silence critical journalists," she also said, reports Le Monde.
Africa News - Togo: The decision of the Constitutional Court to invalidate Togo Tuesday the nomination of Kofi Yamgnane the presidential election of 28 February did not surprise many people in Togo. A rejection based on "confusion about the identity of the person", as the President of the Constitutional Court, Aboudou Assouma.
Africa News - APA-Bordeaux (France) A final will be honored Friday at the Moroccan Mohamed Mechti veteran of World War II, died of an illness Sunday at 92 years at the Hopital Saint-André de Bordeaux in the South - West of France, told APA.
A ceremony will include organized in his memory to the Friendly Dupaty Bordeaux lay by the association "The Forgotten of the Republic" and the Region Aquitaine, all engaged in a battle for recognition and revaluation of human soldiers who fought sides of France during the Great War.
Africa News - The Cameroon-independence Africa: Anticipating contingencies insurgency as he knew so well how, after having vainly repressed violence in a singular all thought of emancipation of its colonies, making victims by hundreds of thousands, General de Gaulle, which you claim, yields to the lure of independence, but not without having conceived and initiated this sinister system that persists and who will now pair with the Fifth Republic.
Africa News - APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) The African Union (AU) allows Eritrea to open''as soon as possible''a diplomatic mission to the AU Commission, to enable the authorities of that country to participate meetings of the Pan-African organization, APA learned on Tuesday a source close to the Union.
Africa News - The 14th summit of the African Union began Sunday in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Theme of the summit: "Technologies of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Africa: Challenges and Prospects for Development ". This edition is an opportunity for Heads of State and Government of the AU member present, assess the progress the continent has made in the ICT sector over the past years and reflect on future strategies that will allow Africa to bridge the digital divide that still separates the world.
Africa News - Tunisia: The Tunisian journalist and opponent has been sentenced to six months in prison. Found guilty of assaulting a woman, the Tunisian journalist Taoufik Ben Brik was sentenced Saturday to six months in prison by the Court of Appeal of Tunis. Nut October 29, journalist 49 years old has been tried for "acts of violence, public outrage to morality and malicious damage to property of others" following a complaint lodged against him by Rym Nasraoui, a businesswoman Tunisia 28 years. The journalist was known for his writings against the regime of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, was said to be the target of "a political trial."
Africa News - African Swahili Proverb : Swahili Proverb: Happiness requires something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
Africa News - Pikine - Senegal: Lack of cotton, high alcohol, gauze, boxes of delivery, umbilical cord clamps, tables of births. And yet it is called motherhood. You're not in the remote villages of Senegal but in the Senegalese capital, more precisely Pikine.
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