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Reuters via AlertNet 26 April 2012 A roadside bomb and a car bomb exploded in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Thursday, killing 5 civilians and wounding 27 people, police and hospital sources said. The roadside blast happened in the Sadr city area and targeted an Iraqi army checkpoint. The car bomb exploded in the Hurriya [...]

Still Human Still Here, April 25th 2012 “A Commentary on the Zimbabwe Operational Guidance Note” This commentary identifies what the ‘Still Human Still Here’ coalition considers to be the main inconsistencies and omissions between the currently available country of origin information (COI) and case-law on Zimbabwe and the conclusions reached in the April 2012 Zimbabwe [...]

Agence France-Presse 19 April 2012 A wave of bomb attacks in four different provinces across Iraq killed at least 30 people on Thursday, security officials said. Bombings in and around Baghdad killed 17 people, an interior ministry official said, while bomb attacks in the northern province of Kirkuk left nine people dead, high-ranking police officers [...]

Still Human Still Here, April 19th 2012 “A Commentary on the February 2012 Jamaica Operational Guidance Note” This commentary identifies what the ‘Still Human Still Here’ coalition considers to be the main inconsistencies and omissions between the currently available country of origin information (COI) and case-law on Jamaica and the conclusions reached in the February [...]

IRIN, UN News Service, April 19th 2012 Pacifying the six rebel groups that hold sway across the north and northeast of the Central African Republic (CAR) is both a key component of the country’s security reform and a prerequisite for the economic development needed to end the spiral of armed conflict and criminality that has [...]

NAIROBI, 18 April 2012 (IRIN) Chidi Odinkalu, chair of Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission, was summoned for an interview with police yesterday over remarks he made in March about the judiciary and the police. In a presentation on 5 March at an event organized by the National Association of Judiciary Correspondents, he said Nigeria was [...]

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 16 April, 2012. Afghan intelligence officials say security forces have repelled a wave of militant attacks in the capital and elsewhere. Government forces told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan that they are now in control of the Shirpoor and Darulaman districts in Kabul, the last areas where fighting following the coordinated attacks [...]

Institute for War and Peace Reporting, 5 April 2012. Women accused of crimes in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province say the lack of female representation in the legal profession is obstructing equal access to justice. Female law graduates exist in the eastern province, but they are not choosing to enter the mainstream legal professions. All cases in [...]

Kristin Palitza, Inter-Press Service 4 April 2012 Only a small elite has benefited from the southern African country’s economic boom, while most Angolans continue to live in acute poverty.CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Apr 4, 2012 (IPS) – Angola is celebrating 10 years of peace on Apr. 4. Since the end of its 27-year- long civil [...]

UNHCR, 4th April, 2012. So far this year, the ICRC has evacuated 53 civilian field casualties, including 18 children, from areas in which fighting was taking place and arranged for them to be treated in hospitals in Bukavu. “Among those we evacuated were two small children who had been stabbed,” said Ms Courtois. “They had [...]