AFRICA: 03 SEPTEMBRE 2012 [South Africa Lifts Charges of Murder in Mine Strike]

September 3, 2012

 [Prosecutors provisionally dropped murder charges against the 270 jailed miners who had been accused under an obscure legal doctrine of killing 34 of their own colleagues when the police opened fire on them while engaged in a wildcat strike. The police fired…

AFRICA: 27 AOUT 2012 [Angola extradites suspected Chinese gangsters]

August 27, 2012

[Authorities accuse 37 men and women of involvement in criminal acts against compatriots in southwestern African nation.Three dozen suspected Chinese gangsters accused of criminal acts against compatriots in Angola, have arrived in Beijing under police guard, according to a state media report.]…