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06 October 2006
ISS Today: Fugitives and the Western Cape
Speaking at a conference on crime in February 2005, Anton Katz, an advocate practising in Cape Town, added his voice to the many others that have expressed concern about a disturbing phenomenon: that with a dramatic increase in trans-border movement of human beings over the past decade South Africa has become a desirable state for fugitives from criminal justice to hide.
Mbeki's silence sparks debate
... Meanwhile, Prince Mashele, from the Institute for Security Studies, who called the show, said the upheaval in the ANC should stay as a problem for the ANC and not for the government. He says if the president speaks out, it could further divide the ANC.
05 October 2006
Give peacekeepers ARVs, new study urges
... 'Botswana and South Africa are the only two countries in Southern Africa which supply their troops on external operations with 'takeaways' of ARV [antiretroviral] prescriptions for 90 days,' said Martin Rupiya, one of the authors of the study, 'The Enemy Within: Southern African Militaries' Quarter-century Battle with HIV and AIDS'.
Regional war looms over Somalia
... Asmara in turn acts “on the basis that my enemy’s enemy is my friend,” as Richard Cornwell of the Institute for Security Studies, based in South Africa, expressed it for ISN Security Watch.
04 October 2006
ISS Today: AU Extends Darfur Troops Mandate to 31 December 2006
The African Union (AU) has decided to extend the mandate of its Peacekeeping forces in the Sudanese region of Darfur until the end of the Year, AU Peace & Security Council (PSC) Chair, Burkina Faso President, Blaise Campaore announced in New York at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters.
Solidarity asks for better security guard training to prevent cash in transit heists
... Johan Burger, a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and himself a former senior police officer, was also quoted in media reports today as saying that Operation Greed seems to have “lost some of its teeth”.
03 October 2006
ISS Today: Progress Towards a Landmine-Free Africa?
On 13 September 2006, the eighth annual Landmine Monitor Report was released by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL). Since 1998, a network of some 70 civil society researchers from over 60 countries have collected information to monitor what has become one of the most important humanitarian laws and disarmament United Nations Conventions – the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on Their Destruction (APM Ban Convention).
South Africa: Hotbeds of Crime: New Figures Show that Hillbrow is the Most Violent Neighbourhood in Joburg
... However, Peter Gastrow, from the Institute for Security Studies, said: 'There is more money to be made in Sandton than in Alexandra, but the risks are higher in Sandton because the private security is more intense.
02 October 2006
ISS Today: Côte d’Ivoire: With friends like these?
Later this week the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will hold a summit meeting in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, to discuss a way out of the long-running political crisis in Côte’Ivoire. President Gbagbo has given little evidence of any willingness to cooperate with an organisation he sees as largely hostile.
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