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22/05/2012 - Report: Israel

Israeli settlers and Palestinians in Jerusalem Day stand-off

An extremely heavy police presence and periodic violent confrontation marked Jerusalem Day on 20 May, as thousands of Israelis attempted to march through the traditionally Palestinian area of East ...

12/05/2012 - Report: Israel

Protests for hunger strikers hit Jerusalem

A week of protests in support of the 2,000 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike inside Israeli prisons reached fever pitch in Jerusalem yesterday as two prisoners began their 73rd day without ...

11/05/2012 - Report: Palestinian territories

Protests intensify as hunger strikers “could die at any moment”

Protests across the West Bank and within Israel intensified yesterday, as a prison doctor visiting Thaer Halahleh, who along with Bilal Diab is on his 73rd day of hunger strike warned that he ...

09/05/2012

African press review 9 May 2012

Will striking Nigerian doctors ever work again? Are African leaders plotting against the International Criminal Court?

08/05/2012 - Report: Palestinian territories

Israeli court rules Palestinian hunger strikers must stay in jail

Two hunger strikers imprisoned in Israel had their appeal against their administrative detention orders quashed by the Israeli High Court yesterday as they reached their 70th day ...

02/05/2012 - Report: Palestinian territories

Over 30 injured at rally for hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners

A protest to celebrate May Day and in support of the 2,000 Palestinian prisoners currently on hunger strike in Israeli jails resulted in 31 injuries on Tuesday, some of them serious.

27/04/2012 - Report: Israel

Palestinian hunger strikers grow to 2,000

The number of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails has risen to 2,000 according to human rights group Addameer. And, it says, the punishment of those on the strike is ...

17/04/2012 - Report: Israel/Palestinian territories

Palestinian prisoners start hunger strike in Israeli jails

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails were to begin a hunger strike Tuesday in a protest at the increasingly harsh treatment they say they are receiving in custody.

10/04/2012

African press review 10 April 2012

Joyce Banda settles into the job in Malawi, rumours about Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and the legal woes of Julius Malema in South Africa, all feature in the African dailies today.

09/04/2012

African press review 9 April 2012

In today's African press, South Africa's ANC hits back at criticism from a leading banker, Malawi's new president takes control after days of political intrigue and airport workers in Kenya are ...

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