All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

Reuters:

Ethiopia should investigate allegations that local officials are keeping food aid from opposition members to force them to join the ruling party ahead of national elections, a British aid minister said on Tuesday.
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< http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/11/09/libya.jail/> CNN:
As we first stepped into Libya's forbidding Abu Salim jail we had no idea what to expect.
We'd been negotiating for a year to get in, we'd had meetings in cafes, hotels, on street corners; we'd sent emails, countless text messages and phone calls.
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The NY Times:
Members of the political elite in Kenya, a nation where top leaders have long escaped prosecution for corruption and other crimes, could now face an international investigation into the violence that shook the country after disputed elections last year. (read the article)

The Independent:
South Africa's former chief of police claimed that he was the victim of a "grand conspiracy" as a trial got under way yesterday that could reveal the extent of corruption in the country's judicial and criminal systems. (read the article)

Voice of America:
Guinea's military government says it is launching an investigation into who ordered security forces to open fire on demonstrators Monday, killing at least 157 people. Former colonial power France has cut military assistance following the attack against demonstrators protesting the expected presidential candidacy of the country's military ruler. (read the article)

BBC:

A senior UN official has called for an investigation into whether Sri Lankan soldiers violated international law by executing unarmed Tamils. (read the article)

NY Times:

The number of men who have been raped has risen sharply in recent months, a consequence of joint Congo-Rwanda military operations against rebels. (read the article)

The NY Times:
A prison in Goma in eastern Congo with 850 prisoners crammed into a facility built for 150 is the worst in Africa, a top United Nations human rights official said late Friday. (read the article)

New York Times:
German intelligence confirmed Monday the deaths of three young women who were among nine foreigners abducted in a remote district of Yemen last week, while unidentified Yemeni officials cited by news agencies said that all nine had been killed.
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BBC News:
Growing numbers of children in Zimbabwe are turning to prostitution to survive, the charity Save the Children says.
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