Darfur: Arrest War Criminals, Not Aid Workers
The Sudanese government should drop charges against all aid workers, including the head of Médecins Sans Frontières in Khartoum, Paul Foreman, who was arrested yesterday and released on bail...Sudanese authorities claim that an MSF report on rape published on March 8 violated Sudanese law and that the report is “false.”
ZIMBABWE: Livelihoods and shelter go up in flames
A housing shortage mixed with grinding poverty has led to the common practice of home owners renting out overcrowded illegal shacks, built literally in their backyards, to families scrabbling to make a living in the city...The Zimbabwe National Pastors Conference condemned the crackdown in a statement and urged the government to make war on poverty, not the poor.
