Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, is appealing to the international community to take serious measures to curb the spiraling ethnic and communal violence in Central African Republic. “Last week’s violence in Bangui demonstrates just how volatile the situation is, and how easily crowds…
Authorities in Swaziland are cracking down on private schools, with at least 21 of them declared illegal and closed because of failure to comply with ministry of education requirements. “You cannot just wake up today and decide to operate a school. There are set standards that must be met,” said…
The death toll continues to climb following two separate bombing attacks on Coptic Christian churches in Egypt on Sunday morning. The Egyptian health ministry said 29 people were now confirmed dead in the blast at the Mar Girgis Coptic Church in the city of Tanta. A second explosion, about two…
Sudan will host the Czech foreign minister in Khartoum on Sunday, where he is expected to appeal for amnesty in the case of Petr Jasek, a missionary sentenced by a Sudanese court to life in prison after he was accused of spying. Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek will meet with Sudanese…
It has been almost six years since the New Year’s Eve attack on a Coptic Christian cathedral in Alexandria, Egypt, that claimed 21 lives – in a bombing for which no one has ever been held accountable. On Sunday, in a new attack on Cairo’s main cathedral and the heart…
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times