By Gasasira, Sweden Sources close to Umuvugizi confirm that in a meeting which recently took place in Cameroon gathering different Human rights defenders adopted a plan of action to promote stronger collaboration and protection of human rights defenders across Africa . During that same meeting which took place Yaoundé which composed of different human rights [...]
By Our Reporter Reporters Without Borders Urges Tanzania’s police to secure lives of Journalist in that in less than four month another is community radio journalist Issa Ngumba was found dead in a forest in Kakonko, in the northwestern region of Kigoma, on 8 January, three days after he went missing. It was clear from the injuries [...]
By Gasasira, Sweden News Reaching Umuvugizi confirm that the Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition and its regional umbrella body of the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Network have urged the Tanzanian Police Force to conduct a thorough investigation of the death of a human right defender and at the same time their [...]
By Gasasira, Sweden The organization for the freedom of journalists( Reporters without borders) RSF) and another local organization in Congo(Journaliste en danger(JED) are concerned with decisions of the M23 rebels towards the media of Congo after the overrunning (Capture)of Goma. These organizations are also concerned with violence of M23 rebels towards civilians and threats towards [...]
By Our Agencies “Mr. Kabila, you promised to combat impunity” Reporters Without Borders and its partner organization, Journalist in Danger (JED), gave a news conference in Kinshasa today, the eve of the start of a Francophonie summit in the same city, in order to present a report on the state of freedom of information [...]
By Our Agencies A court in the central city of Gitega began yesterday but one to hear the appeals of radio journalist Hassan Ruvakuki and 22 other defendants against their terrorism convictions but “to everyone’s stupefaction” adjourned until 18 October at the end of the first session, said a Reporters Without Borders representative attending the hearing. [...]
Survivors Describe Killings of Seven Humanitarian Workers By Gasasira, Sweden Congolese authorities have done virtually nothing to identify or bring to justice the killers of seven humanitarian workers in an ethnically motivated attack a year ago in South Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. On October 4, 2011, members of the Mai Mai Yakutumba, a largely [...]
By Our Reporter Reporters Without Borders is saddened to learn that Channel Ten TV journalist Daudi Mwangosi was killed during clashes between protesters and police while he was covering a demonstration by the political party Chadema in Noyolo, in the central region of Iringa, on 2 September. “We take note of the fact that the police have begun an [...]
By Our Reporter Umuvugizi .com has established that eighteen human rights defenders representing thirteen organizations and in their own capacities met on 17th August 2012 in Juba and formed the South Sudan Human Rights Defenders Network. Human rights defenders in South Sudan have been facing challenges in carrying out their work, in part as a [...]
By Our Reporter IFISO Independent Vetting Coalition calls upon the newly selected Federal Parliament to elect candidates committed to values of transparency and democratic governance. IFISO also raised serious concerns over the lack of a mandated gender quota in the new Federal Parliament and reports of intimidation and manipulation in the nomination process, while heralding [...]
