IPS Inter Press Service - Conflict Prevention AfricaIPS, civil society's leading news agency, is an independent voice from the South and for development, delving into globalisation for the stories underneath.RIGHTS-ZIMBABWE: "Dictatorship Is Temporary"- (Found June 29, 2008 ) HARARE, Jun 5 (IPS) - Fourteen members of Women of Zimbabwe Arise, a Bulawayo-based human rights organisation, are being held in two prisons in the capital Harare. They were arrested while marching to demand that the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) intervene to end post-election violence; their case is just one illustration of escalating human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42678 RIGHTS-SOUTH AFRICA: They Will Have to Shoot Me First- (Found June 29, 2008 ) CAPE TOWN, May 28 (IPS) - Thousands of foreign residents of Cape Town have sought refuge at police stations, churches, community halls and in camps set up by municipal disaster management services.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42548 POLITICS-KENYA: Big Cabinet, Bigger Challenges- (Found June 29, 2008 ) NAIROBI, Apr 18 (IPS) - The oaths of office have been taken, and solemn pronouncements made about the ills that have dogged Kenya&39;s past, and the way to address these in the future. Now, can the East African country&39;s vast new coalition government move from talking the talk to walking the walkhttp://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42051 POLITICS-DRC: Cautious Calm Settles Over War-Scarred Ituri Region- (Found June 29, 2008 ) BOGORO, Apr 17 (IPS) - Wading through the chest-high grass outside of this hamlet in north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Mathieu Nyakufa gestures to the bones -- still bleaching in the sun -- of those who have been lost to the country&39;s wars.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42032 POLITICS-SUDAN: The Census Saga Continues- (Found June 29, 2008 ) KHARTOUM, Apr 15 (IPS) - Sudan&39s crucial national census has been delayed by a week over concerns that displaced persons living in the north have still not been repatriated to the south, something which could seriously affect the results of the count.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41996 UGANDA: "God Should Be So Kind That I Can Have Contraceptives"- (Found June 29, 2008 ) NAIROBI, Apr 10 (IPS) - For many of Africa's women, getting access to family planning services is difficult at the best of times. When war intervenes they can find themselves without any services at all, even as they become more vulnerable to sexual violence -- the situation in northern Uganda being a case in point.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41947 |