Four other legal groups - including the International Commission of Jurists and the Pan African Lawyers Union - condemned her detention.
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The arrests were condemned by legal groups, including the International Commission of Jurists and the Pan African Lawyers Union, on Monday.
It was launched in partnership with the Pan African Institute of Education for Development (IPED) and the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA).
This year, Gertrude Mongela became the highest-ranking elected woman in all of Africa when she was elected to the presidency of the African Union's new Pan African Parliament.
After this session, the first round table will take place, moderated by Moussa Idriss Ndele, President of the Pan African Parliament, and Mezri Haddad, Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of Tunisia to UNESCO.
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The Pan African Conference on Access to Information and Highway Africa Conference offer an ideal opportunity to discuss the role of professional capacity building and supporting institutions that underpins freedom of expression, pluralism and development as an important element of media development.
The move brings with it confirmation that this is a truly pan African event and, having joined forces with MultiChoice Africa, we are looking forward to this being one of the most memorable events, particularly as 2005 also sees CNN celebrating 25 years as the world's pioneering news provider.
Meanwhile, at an African Union summit in Ghana, Mr Mugabe was, as usual, feted by his fellow African leaders, where he pronounced on the virtues of pan-African unity.
Guinea's President Alpha Conde said there should be pan-African ministers for energy, infrastructure and trade.
Mr Wade was once one of Col Gaddafi's strongest supporters when it came to pan-African politics.
Sceptics point out that, while promoting pan-African democracy, some AU nations are run by autocrats.
Senegal, one of Africa's most stable democracies, backed Mr Gaddafi's call for the immediate set up of a pan-African government.
Dr Gertrude Mongella, the Tanzanian president of the Pan-African Parliament, said Mr Brown's threat would not help Zimbabwe.
Africa-pessimists are quick to belittle all this pan-African institution-building, and it is easy to point to the failures.
AU's leaders have promised eventually to create a pan-African parliament, a court of justice, a central bank and a shared currency.
The campaign has been launched on Pan-African Women's Day, and it is to go on across the continent for a year.
Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan-African Culture in Accra completed the workshop.
The inclusion of a Francophone category makes the competition truly Pan-African and representative of the range and diversity of Africa's journalism talent.
Concerned with the misunderstanding about transgenic corn, Wambugu created A Harvest Biotech Foundation International to serve as a pan-African voice on the issue.
So, while some sub-Saharan African leaders considered Gadhafi's vision of a unified Africa unrealistic, they nevertheless hailed it as one advocating pan-African cooperation.
Marwick Khumalo, who heads the Pan-African Parliament's observer mission, says it was clear that the poll could not be fair if the violence went on.
Iraj Abedian, an economist and chief executive of Pan-African Capital Holdings, says a pitiful shortage of skills is one of the main constraints on economic growth.
The pan-African GGW was first proposed in the 1980s by Thomas Sankara, head of state in Burkina Faso, as a means to stop the growing of the Sahara.
"It's really sad what we've seen here, " said a Pan-African Parliament election observer who visited the scene and asked that his name not be used for security reasons.
The III Encounter of ABCD Filmmakers will take place in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in February 2013, with the support of the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou (FESPACO).
It's great that African guitarists are finally connecting, but it would be a shame if the edgy originality of their local styles gets softened into a kind of pan-African mush.
And it is possible that the programme's professed aim to become a pan-African model for African business education and African business in general is achievable, bearing in mind CEIBS's success in China.
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"We see the Weather Info for All initiative as a major pan-African effort to empower our 188 (nation) members to provide enhanced weather information and services, " said Michel Jarraud, WMO secretary-general.
Shortly after he came to power, he changed the constitution and had it include a clause saying the Senegalese were willing to see their sovereignty overtaken by that of a pan-African government.
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