Liberia closes border with Guinea after fresh Ebola outbreak
Liberia’s closed its border with Guinea following an Ebola outbreak that’s killed at least four people in the former French colony. The deaths in Guinea have occurred since Leap Year’s Day. Liberia was declared free of new transmissions of the deadly virus in January. ends intro Liberia’s Information Minister Lenn Eugene Nangbe says his country’s […]
South Africa to make hate speech a crime
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress is to introduce legislation criminalizing hate crimes and hate speech. Speaking on the anniversary of the 1960 massacre of 69 protesters by apartheid police in Sharpeville, President Jacob Zuma says the Bill will be tabled by September. ends intro President Jacob Zuma says racist events earlier this year show […]
ICC convicts former Congolese vice president of rape and war crimes
The International Criminal Court ‘s convicted former Congolese vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba of murder, rape and pillage for acts by his militia in the Central African Republic in 2002-03. He’s the highest ranking person yet convicted by the international tribunal in the Hague. ends intro The judgment was hailed as a landmark decision in the fight […]