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The crisis in Zimbabwe: A paradigm shift from false expectations of reform in a securocrat state The Standard
by Ibbo Mandaza
It is now two decades since the sanctions regime was imposed by the USA in 2001 and by the EU in 2002.
And in December 2003, Robert Mugabe quit the Commonwealth at the decision of the latter body to extend sanctions for “undemocratic behaviour”.
All this, in the expectation that the state in Zimbabwe would reform, improve its human rights record and adhere to the standards required for free, fair and credible elections.
The record so far is that things have since gotten worse, with little or no hope for reform.
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UN yet to receive proof that Sheikha Latifa is alive
Sheikha Latifa Al-Maktoum, daughter of the UAE s Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, seen in January 2018, a few weeks before her escape from her family in February 2018 [Tiina Jauhiainen/wikimedia] March 6, 2021 at 11:46 am
The United Nations (UN) confirmed on Friday that it has not yet received any evidence from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government that Sheikha Latifa is alive.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) had requested evidence that the daughter of Dubai s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, is still alive. However, in response to a question about whether proof of this has been presented, UN Spokesperson Robert Colville told reporters: Not yet, no.
The number of teenagers arrested for terrorist offences in the UK is increasing.
Home Office figures for 2020 show that although more people under 18 were detained than in the previous year, the overall number of people arrested dropped to its lowest level in nine years.
Britain s intelligence services revealed two plots by Islamist extremists and one right-wing terrorist plot were prevented since the beginning of the pandemic, bringing the number of foiled attacks since March 2017 to 28.
Last year, the number of people under 18 arrested for terrorism rose by four percentage points.
The UK s senior national co-ordinator for counter terrorism policing, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Dean Haydon, said a worrying trend is developing.