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Africa
Angola
Angola
arms traffickers convicted - 27 October
The son of ex-French President Francois Mitterrand and an
ex-government minister have been convicted for their roles in
illegal arms sales to Angola. Jean-Christophe Mitterrand was given
a two-year suspended sentence, and ex-Interior Minister Charles
Pasqua was jailed for one year by the Paris court. They were
convicted of accepting bribes to facilitate arms deals to Angola
in 1993-98, in breach of French law. Two key figures were
sentenced to six years each in their absence. Prosecutors accused
Israeli-Russian billionaire Arkady Gaydamak and French magnate
Pierre Falcone of being the key figures in the arms trafficking
worth $790m (£485m). - BBC News
website
Zimbabwe
Zim
shuns UN expert - 28 October
Zimbabwe's government called off at the last minute a visit by a
United Nations expert on torture that had been due to start on
Wednesday, the UN announced. The UN Special Rapporteur on torture
and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment,
Manfred Nowak, had been invited by President Robert Mugabe's
government to visit Zimbabwe from 28 October to 4 November 2009. -
IOL website
Zimbabwe
deports UN rights expert - 29 October
Manfred Nowak, the UN special rapporteur on torture, has been
deported from Zimbabwe a day after being detained by
security officials on arrival in Harare, a UN official has
said. "We are boarding the plane to Johannesburg now,"
the official told the Reuters news agency on Thursday. - Aljazeera
website
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