Iran: imminent executions as we go towards june elections anniversary - 16 political prisoners on death row

Jaras: Growing concerns for conditions of Farzad Kamangar and Masoomeh Yavari, the two political prisoners condemned to death.

Iran: conspiracy to Eliminate Reformist Leader

From Arash Bahmani - While in recent days some pro-administration media outlets have released reports about the illness of former Majlis speaker and reformist Mehdi Karoubi, now the secretary general of the Etemad Melli (National Trust) party and one of the two presidential candidates opposing the 2009 election results, university students warned against  government’s efforts to eliminate the reformist leader.  The Liberal Students and Alumni of Iranian Universities released a statement noting that the Islamic republic was responsible for Karoubi’s safety, adding, “We warn against any assassination attempts on the life of sheikh Mehdi Karoubi and, given that he is fully healthy according to his family, regard any hard, fatal and incurable ailment that he may be afflicted with in the coming months to be a conspiracy by coup-perpetrators to eliminate one of the brave and progressive leaders of the Iranian people’s green democracy movement.  The coup-perpetrators and their foreign supporters will undoubtedly be held responsible for such an event.”

World Bank Steps Up to Plate in War on Malaria with U.S.$200 Million for Bed Nets

Backing a call for greater action from the United Nations Special Envoy for Malaria, the World Bank today committed $200 million to provide people in sub-Saharan Africa with treated bed nets to protect them from a disease that kills nearly 1 million people every year.

Urgent - Great Britain stops the deportation in Iran of Bita Ghaedi

While the whole world keeps on condemning the hard repression from the Iranian regime of the dissent, while the sentences are wasted for the continuous executions in Iran, Great Britain keeps on extraditing the Iranian dissidents well knowing what it waits for them.

Gust of death sentences in Iran

Abdolreza Ghanbari, 47 year-old teacher, and is death row inmate for the crime of Moharebeh (fighting of god). Judge Salavati has justified that the crime of Moharebeh and is effected through “contacts with hostile fighting groups, documented through messages suspicious email and you contact with a television media to the foreign countries.”

Turkey: military operations against the Kurdish ones and tortures in the jail. Here is Turkey that wants Europe

In a recent relationship sent by Secondo Protocollo to the European union, to the United Nations and the Committee for the Human Rights of the U.N. some serious violations of the Human Rights are described of which Turkey is stain lately.

Iran: alarming report about Influence of interrogators in Evin

By Leyla Tayeri - Abdollah Momeni - the spokesperson of Iran’s largest university student alumni group - who was released in mid-March after posting $800,000 in bail, was returned to prison at the end of his temporary release.  Momeni returned to prison yesterday after being subjected to extreme pressures by Iran’s security apparatus.  His wife, Fatemeh Adinevand, told Rooz yesterday, “Every week they presented him with some request, and there was no way Abdollah could satisfy them.”  Meanwhile, Kalame website close to reformists released a report about the condition of political prisoners and behind-the-scenes interrogation practices in Iran’s prisons.

Sudan ruling party offers opposition govt posts

Source: Reuters - Sudan's ruling party, in an apparent bid to heal a rift over accusations of vote fraud, said on Wednesday it would invite opposition groups to join the government if it won elections currently in progress.

Africa: food crisis spreading to entire Sahel

Humanitarian organisations are warning that the developing food crisis goes far beyond the known drought areas in Niger and Chad. Millions are facing malnutrition and hunger all over the Sahel, from Mauritania and Guinea to Nigeria and Sudan. Food aid is already under-financed.

Catholic sex abuse "in Africa too"

The Catholic Archbishop of Johannesburg, Buti Tlhagale, has warned that also clergy in Africa have committed sexual abuse of children. Abuse was not a Western problem, it affected Africa too, he said.

Geneva: green economy strategies discussed

More than 600 delegates at the 30th Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA), hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), will look at the five sectors that have been identified as key green investment opportunities – agriculture, industry, tourism, cities and transportation – many of which are open in the developing countries.

Iranian Banks Under Military Control

By Ardalan Sayami - “Ansar Bank Serving Citizens” is a slogan that is repeatedly broadcast on the national Islamic Republic television these days.  Ansar was a financial institution that became a private bank after it obtained a permit from Iran’s Central Bank; the same permit obtained by the “Mehr Iranian Organization” and “Ghavamin Charity Fund.”  These institutions all belong to the Islamic Republic’s military establishment.  Ansar and Mehr Iranian were founded by the Islamic Passdaran Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and Ghavamin belongs to the Iranian police.

Is computer learning becoming redundant in Africa?

Teachers and technologists gathering at the eLearning Africa 2010 conference in Zambia will be debating a billion dollar question, attempting to work out whether future African students will learn from the telephones in their pockets or from the laptops in their classrooms.

Iran: worrisome Report about Panahi’s Condition in Prison

By Fereshteh Ghazi - Zahra Rahnavard called for the release of political prisoners and individuals detained during protests against the election results, referring to the prisoners as noble people who do not want anything but respect and greatness for themselves and their nation.  Manwhile, Jafar Panahi’s wife send a report detailing the condition of the prominent filmmaker and revealed that he has been transferred to a smaller prison cell.

International Criminal Court: a bombshell hangs over Kenya

By Lawrence Keketso - Could a decision by judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Kenya's post-election violence mean the end to the already shaky unity government?