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Taleban Onslaught Undermines Afghan Peace Effort

IWPR Region: Afghanistan

As insurgents pick off officials in targeted attacks, negotiators face mounting pressure to explain lack of visible progress towards peace deal. A recent spate of insurgent attacks has intensified the criticism of official attempts to engage the Taleban in peace talks. The High Peace Council set up by President Hamed Karzai last autumn is beset on all sides. Some accuse it of being too ready to make concessions to terrorists, while others say the unrelenting wave of Taleban attacks indicates ... more

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Top War Crimes Suspect Mladic Captured, Faces Extradition

IWPR Region: Serbia

Top War Crimes Suspect Mladic Captured, Faces Extradition  Serbian president says "difficult" phase in country's history now over. The arrest of General Ratko Mladic, commander of the Bosnian Serb army during the 1990s conflict, means the last top-level official accused of genocide and war crimes in the former Yugoslavia will finally be brought before the Hague tribunal. Serbian president Boris Tadic confirmed that the former general had been arrested inside the country. The arrest was ... more

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Female Suicide “Epidemic” in Tajikistan

IWPR Region: Tajikistan

Female Suicide “Epidemic”in Tajikistan   Unchecked domestic violence seen as root cause. By Mukammal Odinaeva in Dushanbe (07-May-09) “One winter evening I went out into the yard, poured aviation fuel over my legs and set fire to myself,” said Mosharif, a young Tajik woman from Vakhsh in eastern Tajikistan. She was taken to hospital and survived, but she regrets that she did. “Why did they save me? I don’t want to live like this,” she said.... more

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In Sudan, Activists Mount Legal Challenge to NGO Closures

IWPR Region: Sudan

Civil society groups attempt to resist government crackdown in wake of ICC’s indictment of Bashir. By Amy Stillman in London (AR No. 209, 9-Apr-09) It was late in the afternoon when the letter arrived at the Sudan Social Development Organization, SUDO, headquarters in Khartoum. Signed by the Sudanese government’s Humanitarian Assistance Commission, HAC, it sounded the death knell for the largest Sudanese humanitarian organisation operating in Darfur. Claiming that S... more

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Syrian Rappers Find Their Voice

IWPR Region: Syrian Arab Republic

By an IWPR-trained reporter (01-Apr-09) With a swift move, he brings the microphone close to his mouth. “Brothers in Gaza, my microphone is your cannon. You kneel down only to God, and no one can force you to surrender,” blares out Hani al-Sawah, as if on stage in front of a huge audience. But Sawah, 20, is performing with friends in his bedroom and makeshift recording studio in the city of Homs. Sawah’s head is shaved – his only obvious fashion statement, thoug... more

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ICC Urges Congo to Hand Over Ntaganda

IWPR Region: Congo

By Jacques Kahorha in Goma and Lisa Clifford in The Hague (AR No. 199, 29-Jan-09) ICC indictee Bosco Ntaganda shakes hands with Congo's interior minister Celestin Mbuyu. © Jacques Kahorha/Goma “We are very, very, very happy,” said Yves Jean Bosco Batechi from the North Kivu village of Matanda as he celebrated the news that the rebels waging war on the Congolese... more

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Darfur's Janjaweed Loyalty to Bashir Under Strain

IWPR Region: Sudan

By Abdhalla Tajeldin Adam in Belgium (AR No. 198, 27-Jan-09) The pending indictment of Omar al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court, ICC, appears to have eroded critical support for the embattled Sudanese president among his notorious janjaweed militia allies. Often translated as “devils on horseback”, the janjaweed are ethnic-Arab militias who have fought alongside the Sudan Armed Forces, SAF, in Darfur against ethnic African rebels. Since ICC chief prosecutor Luis Mo... more

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ZImbabwe's Power-Sharing Agreement Brings Hope

IWPR Region: Zimbabwe

By Chipo Sithole in Harare (ZCR No. 178, 29-Jan-09) A ray of hope has been flickering in Zimbabwe amid the filth, disease and wasted lives since President Robert Mugabe's ruling ZANU-PF party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, MDC, agreed on January 26 to share power, potentially ushering in the political stability critical for economic recovery.   After an all-night emergency summit of Southern African leaders at South Africa’s Presidential Guest House in Pre... more

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Georgia: Economic Slump Hurting

IWPR Region: Georgia

Once buoyant economy is hit by downturn and war over South Ossetia. By Tamar Khorbaladze in Tbilisi Having enjoyed double-digit economic growth for several years, Georgia is now bracing itself for hard times as it comes to terms with the double blow of the August war and the world financial crisis. Since October, increasing numbers of people have lost their jobs, property prices have plunged, banks have reduced lending, and the national currency, the lari, has depreciated sharply. The... more

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Ethnic Uzbeks Opt Out of Turkmen Polls

IWPR Region: Turkmenistan

Many feel alienated by election process and do not plan to lend their votes to anyone. By IWPR staff Members of the sizeable ethnic Uzbek community in Turkmenistan say they will not take part in the December 14 election since they have been given no stake in it.   The Uzbeks are the country’s second largest ethnic group after the Turkmen, numbering perhaps 300,000 to 400,000 out of a total population of 5.2 million and concentrated in the Dashoguz and Lebap regions, along the e... more

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