Observer calls for fairness in Tunisia’s presidential run-off
The Johannesburg-based Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa says Tunisia’s parliamentary elections last Sunday consolidated democracy in the country that gave birth to the Arab Spring lightyears ago. Leader of EISA team, former Mauritian President Cassam Uteem says jailed television mogul Nabil Kasroui should be allowed to participate fully in the Presidential run-off election […]
At least 13 women die as a boat from Tunisia capsizes off the Italian island of Lampedusa
Italian coastguards have recovered the bodies of 13 women who drowned when an overcrowded boat from Tunisia capsized off the island of Lampedusa. 22 women were rescued but a dozen are still missing. More than 1000 people have died this year trying to cross the Mediterranean from Africa to Europe. In the Tunisian city of […]
Election observer gunned down in Mozambique
A senior election observer in Mozambique has been murdered a week ahead of South Africa’s eastern neighbour going to the polls. Anastacio Matavel from the Hall of Peace organization was gunned down by unknown assassins in the government stronghold of Gaza. The killing of the Anastacio Matavel , as he left a training session in […]
Vaccination campaign slowing down EBOLA outbreak in DRC – but it’s not over
The vaccination campaign against the 14-month EBOLA outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is having effect. Medical experts warn, however that the world’s second worst onslaught by this deadly hemorrhagic disease is not over. With more than 3000 confirmed infections, the EBOLA outbreak has killed more than 2 000 people in the Democratic Republic […]