NY Times: Where Life's Start is a Deadly Risk, by Denise Grady:
BEREGA, Tanzania— The young woman had already been in labor for two days by the time she reached the hospital here. Now two lives were at risk,
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Maternal Mortality in Africa
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ICTR Appellate Chamber Affirms Life Sentence for Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
From the United Nations, an update from the Appellate Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Like the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), the ICTR was established as a peace-keeping measure under Article VII of…
Second Circuit on Extraterritorial Application of Fourth Amendment Warrant Requirement
A three-judge panel of the Second Circuit upheld the district court’s denial of one defendant-appellant El-Hage’s motion to suppress evidence obtained overseas in the criminal case arising out of the 1998 embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. El-Hage…
NYT: Making Childbirth Safe, Everywhere
Nicholas Kristof recently wrote an op-ed in the New York Times about the more than half a million women who die each year in pregnancy and childbirth worldwide. From ‘They Think They’ve Been Cursed By God’:President Bush’s budget request…
GIV Soap Round-Up
Wings Group of Indonesia sues Murzah of Tanzania for infringing its rights in GIV Soap.
And on Alibaba, you can buy not only GIV Soap:
but CLV Soap as well, both from Yiwu & Zhejang Fortune Import and
Tanzania suffers rise of witchcraft hysteria aimed at elderly
International Criminal Tribunal Announces Arrest and Transfer of Rwandan Media Head Joseph Serugendo
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has announced that Joseph Serugendo has been arrested and sent to the Tribunal’s detention center in Arusha, Tanzania. Serugendo was a “former member of the Comité d’Initiative, the steering committee of Radio Télévision Libre…