01: Africa
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A military mutiny in Conakry results in the death of two civilians and threatens again the stability of Guinea one week after the consensus prime minister was dismissed. |
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The armies of Mali and Niger increase their offensive against the Tuareg armed groups of the northern regions, leading to the flight of thousands of people. |
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MEND armed group launches a new wave of attacks denouncing that the Nigerian Government has not fulfilled its promise of achieving peace in the Delta region during its first year in power. |
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The leader of the FNL opposition armed group, Agathon Rwasa, returns to Burundi to start the implementation of the peace agreement signed with the Government in 2006. |
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Belgium arrests the senator and opposition leader of DR Congo in exile, Jean-Pierre Bemba, requested by the ICC and accused of war crimes and against humanity. |
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LRA leader, Joseph Kony, announces that he will not sign an agreement with the Ugandan Government, confirming the definitive breaking-off of the peace process. |
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Former Ethiopian president Mengistu Haile Mariam is sentenced to death penalty with charges of genocide, homicide, illegal imprisonment and illegal appropriation of goods, acts perpetrated during the dictatorship from 1974 to 1991, in which thousands of people died. |
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UN Security Council gives green light to the military intervention in Somali territorial waters to prevent attacks to navies circulating near the Somali coast. |
02: Americas
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The UN urges Guatemalan authorities to investigate the anonymous threats received by forensic anthropologists working in favour of the rights of the armed conflict victims. |
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Several clashes take place during the referendums in Beni and Pando eastern Bolivian departments, which have faced a high abstention and a massive approval of the autonomous statutes. |
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Following several weeks of institutional crisis, Haitian president proposes Robert Manuel as new prime minister, who will have to be ratified by the two houses of Parliament. |
03: Asia
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Nepal Constituent Assembly declares the country a federal republic. |
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Myanmar Military Junta extends the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi after five consecutive years of house arrest. |
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In front of thousands of people the founder of Philippine’s armed group MNLF proposes to contest in the International Court of Justice the sovereignty of Sabah (Malasya), which has been historically reclaimed by the Philippines. |
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The explosion of a bomb in southern Philippines and the clashes between the army and the MILF leave several people dead and increase the tension in Mindanao. |
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Thousands of people demonstrate in Thailand against the government plans to reform the Constitution as well as in demand of the trial of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. |
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Human Rights Watch condemns the use of Tiananmen Square as the site for the opening celebration of the Olympic Games in Beijing. |
04: Europe
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The Albanian-populated area of Macedonia suffers acts of violence and irregularities during the parliamentary election-day, leaving one person dead, nine injured and 28 people arrested. |
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Tension escalates between Russia and Georgia due to the deployment of more Russian troops to Abkhazia and the release of a UNOMIG’s report saying Russia shot down a Georgian aircraft. |
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Georgian political opposition boycotts the new Parliament in protest against past elections, and several parties announce the creation of an alternative forum. |
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The European Court of Human Rights rules that Russia is responsible for the disappearance of a dozen of people during military attacks in Chechnya in 2002 and 2003. |
05: Middle East
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Former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani calls for a Sunni-Shii dialogue in the conference in Mecca aiming to agree on an Islamic charter for the dialogue between Jewish and Christians. |
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Egyptian Parliament extends the state of emergency in force for the last 27 years. |
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A UN report reveals an increase in the number of restrictions to mobility imposed by Israel in the West Bank. |
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The appointment of Michel Suleiman as the president of Lebanon fails to end the crisis that blocks the formation of a Government. |
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UN secretary general hails the release of a Lebanese prisoner by Israel and the handing over of the Israeli soldiers’ bodies by Hezbollah. |
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The Palestinian president, Mahomoud Abbas, calls for the national dialogue and the reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas based on the Yemeni initiative reached last march. |
06: International Organizations
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The 2007 Human Security Report states that the number of victims caused by terrorism has fallen by 40 per cent. |
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Governments of 110 countries reach an agreement to ban the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of cluster bombs. |
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The Rome Summit organised to achieve solutions for the global food
crisis ends up as a total failure due to the lack of compromise of the
gathered Governments. |
