Scores of monks are trying to leave Burma's main city, Rangoon, following the military's bloody crackdown on anti-government protests, reports say. Monks were seen at the railway station and bus drivers were reportedly refusing to take them, out of fear they would not be allowed petrol. Curfews and night-time police raids are continuing in Rangoon. Correspondents describe a climate of fear there.
Last Updated: Tuesday, 18 September 2007, 14:44 GMT 15:44 UK Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate slowed in August to 6,592.8% from July's record of 7,634.8%, according to the Central Statistical Office (CSO). The slowdown came in the midst of a price-control programme imposed by President Robert Mugabe in June. Businesses were ordered to cut or freeze prices for items such as bread and milk. But crit
By John Lichfield in Paris Thursday, 4 October 2007 The French oil giant Total faces a renewed inquiry into claims that it was complicit in crimes against humanity committed by the military regime in Burma. The federal prosecutor's office in Belgium has re-opened a five-year-old case brought by four Burmese refugees, who allege that France's largest company financed human rights violations and
A group of elder statesmen has said peace talks on Darfur due to be held in Libya need to be more inclusive. After visiting Sudan's war-torn western region, the Elders, led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, said displaced people living in camps must be represented. The Elders went to Darfur to see and hear for themselves the conditions that people in camps must endure. They urged the international commu
Asylum seekers from Sudan's war-torn Darfur region have been tortured after being deported back to their capital from the UK, a human rights group says. The Aegis Trust said it had evidence that people from Darfur, in the west, had been abused while in detention in Khartoum - on the other side of Sudan. It said it had corroborated claims by five Darfuris who had had asylum applications rejected by
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