News stories by Fatima Asmal

DURBAN, South Africa, Feb 20 (IPS) - On Tuesday, Feb. 19, famous South African paralympian Oscar Pistorius was charged with premeditated murder, with prosecutors arguing the athlete had "put on his prosthetic legs, walked seven metres and fired four shots through a locked bathroom door," killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day.

Gender training for peacekeeping operations 'is not something you do for two weeks before you go for deployment,' says Florence Butegwa, UNIFEM representative to the African Union (AU) and U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).