ICC Investigates Guinea 'Abuses'
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened an investigation into the Guinean military's brutal suppression of an anti-government protest.
The Hague court says it is deciding whether the events of 28 September amount to crimes against humanity.
The prosecutors say there is evidence that women were "abused or otherwise brutalized" during the crackdown.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8308420.stm
Tsvangirai Aide Back in Jail
A Zimbabwean court has ordered a senior official in the party of Morgan Tsvangirai, the Zimbabwean prime minister, back to jail to await trial on terrorism charges.
Authorities detained Roy Bennett, the treasurer of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), on Wednesday following orders from magistrate Lucy Mungwari.
"I commit the accused person to prison. If there is any defect in the process, the accused should raise it before the High Court," Mungwari said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/10/2009101420304911779.html
Africa: Foreign Aid May Dry Up – FG
The Federal Government has predicted that foreign aid, which is important for a number of African countries, is likely to diminish in the coming years as a result of the global economic crisis.
This is following drastic reduction in the foreign direct investments in Africa as the credit squeeze takes hold.
This was made known by the Vice President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, in a keynote address at the opening ceremony of the ongoing annual conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) in Abuja.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200910150398.html
Congo-Kinshasa: Rights Groups Urge UN to Rein in Army
U.N.-supported military operations in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have had an "unacceptable" cost for the civilian population, said a coalition of rights groups Tuesday.
The call to action by the Congo Advocacy Coalition said 1,000 civilians have been killed, 7,000 women and girls have been raped, and nearly 900,000 people have been forced to flee their homes since January.
That is when the Congolese army began an operation called Kimia II to disarm and disband the militia group Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, or FDLR, an organization of Rwandan Hutus, some whose leaders participated in the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda.
http://allafrica.com/stories/200910141076.html
