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Violence against Rohingya muslims in Myanmar
01/08/2012 - World news explained

Violence against Rohingya muslims in Myanmar

Myanmar is among the countries criticised by the US State Department in its latest report on religious freedom around the world.

29/07/2012

French weekly magazines review

Who hopes to profit from the chaos and bloodletting in Syria? Is François Hollande a hypnotist? Can a third-century BC philosopher teach us to be happy? And why are so many ...

Indian journalist Tongam Rina shot in AP
29/07/2012 - International media

Indian journalist Tongam Rina shot in AP

Audry Apang, editor of Indian newspaper Arunachal Times, discusses growing violence against the press in the north-eastern Arunachal Pradesh State after the shooting of journalist

19/07/2012 - African news explained

World Council of Churches enquiry into violence in Nigeria

A delegation from the World Council of Churches has been visiting Nigeria to draw up a report on the country's increasing violence.

Civil war in Syria?
17/07/2012 - World news explained

Civil war in Syria?

The International Committee of the Red Cross has officially changed the designation of the conflict in Syria to a ...

International media covering the crisis in Syria
15/07/2012 - International media

International media covering the crisis in Syria

Phillis Bennis, a fellow at the Washington Institute of Policy Studies, speaks to RFI about Syrian government claims that the international media covering the crisis is bloodthirsty and in cahoots ...

09/07/2012

African press review 9 July 2012

Egypt's military squares up to the president. South Africa has its eye on the AU presidency. There's controversy over deaths at a Nigerian funeral. 

Syrian refugees in Jordan
06/07/2012 - International report

Syrian refugees in Jordan

As the situation in Syria worsens, many thousands of Syrians are fleeing into neighbouring Jordan. While this provides much-needed refuge, it could prove problematic.
 

Attempts to reduce political tension before Kenya's elections
05/07/2012 - International report

Attempts to reduce political tension before Kenya's elections

Kenyans have a few months left before parliamentary and national elections that will be the first ones since the ill-fated 2007 polls that led to unprecedented post-election violence.

03/07/2012

African press review 2 July 2012

More on the aftermath of the church attacks in Kenya, allegations of corruption in Uganda and worries about the South African economy all feature in the African papers today.

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