Over the past days, more than 500 Tuaregs, including women and children, have crossed from Libya to Algeria, claiming they were forced to flee their homes by anti-Qaddafi fighters, who took reprisals after occupying their towns.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said in a joint press release that they have evidence the Sudanese army has committed war crimes in the country’s South Kordofan region, with villages coming under aerial bombardment.
AlJazeera claims to have uncovered documents in the ransacked offices of Qaddafi’s intelligence chief implicating US officials—including Rep. Dennis Kucinich—in secretly aiding the strongman, in violation of stated policy.
Libya’s Transitional National Council denied charges made by Morocco’s official news service that some 550 Polisario Front fighters from occupied Western Sahara had been arrested for serving as mercenaries for Qaddafi.
Clashes between police and Shi’ite protesters continue in Bahrain, fueled by the killing of a 14-year-old boy by riot police. The new protests erupted on the first day of the Eid al-Fitr festival.
The Bolivian Supreme Court convicted seven officials—five military officers and two former cabinet ministers—of genocide in the “Black October” violence of 2003. They received sentences of between three and 15 years.
The administration of Ollanta Humala has imposed a two-yea deadline for the Camisea consortium to find new gas reserves to meet its export obligations, saying all gas from existing fields will be used to meet domestic demand.
A comparison of the whole genomes of cholera bacteria found in Haiti and in Nepal proves nearly conclusively that Nepalese UN “peacekeepers” were the inadvertent cause of a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 6,000 Haitians.
Dole Food Company has settled with some 5,000 former banana workers in Nicaragua who said their health had been damaged by prolonged and unprotected exposure to the pesticides Nemagon and Fumazone.
Tens of thousands of Chilean workers, students and teachers participated in a 48-hour general strike initiated by the country’s main labor federation to call “for a different Chile.”
Honduran campesino leader Pedro Salgado and his wife, Reina Mejía, are the latest victims in a decade-old struggle for land in the Central American nation’s conflicted Lower Aguán Valley.
As NATO carries out air-strikes and NTC forces advance on Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte, the fugitive strongman’s forces are accused of holding the populace captive to use as “human shields.”
