SocialConflictLocation List

Id Latitude Longitude Country Geo Name Id Description
6,072,813 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi A leading Malawian opposition leader pleaded innocent Wednesday to charges of treason as thousands of his supporters chanted their support in the streets outside.
6,073,788 -26.358801 28.133101 South Africa Black factions battle.
6,072,818 -15.3833 35.333302 Malawi A dozen heavily armed riot police on Wednesday searched the home and office of a prominent university of Malawi researcher in in Zomba, near the commercial capital of Blantyre.
6,072,824 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi More than 20 people, several of them children, were injured in clashes after a soccer game between two of Malawi's most popular teams in the southern business center of Blantyre.
6,072,830 -15.3833 35.333302 Malawi Two people were shot and seriously wounded Tuesday when police opened fire to disperse students protesting the death of a popular reggae artist in police detention, hospital officials and students said.
6,072,834 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Two people were shot and seriously wounded Tuesday when police opened fire to disperse students protesting the death of a popular reggae artist in police detention, hospital officials and students said.
6,072,841 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Malawi's tobacco on Thursday sold for 1.80 dollars a kilo, fetching the highest price ever in three years but farmers were still unhappy claiming the prices were still low for the good leaf on offer.
6,072,847 -13.9833 33.783298 Malawi Malawi's tobacco on Thursday sold for 1.80 dollars a kilo, fetching the highest price ever in three years but farmers were still unhappy claiming the prices were still low for the good leaf on offer.
6,072,853 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi About 3,000 ruling party supporters demonstrated outside a newspaper publisher's offices Monday to protest its printing of articles opposing a thrid term in office for the country's president.
6,072,860 -13.5291 34.490299 Malawi a bigger, historic prayer crusade involving Catholics and Protestant churches would be launched Sunday, the first time that the two churches would come together to oppose a political move.
6,072,869 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Tobacco sales at Malawi's three main auction houses were suspended indefinitely Tuesday after farmers protested prices had tumbled too low for them to make a profit.
6,072,874 -15.3833 35.333302 Malawi Scores of armed police have besieged Malawi's university in Zomba, patrolling the campus after a student protest, as well as main roads and selected points in the sleepy town, police and residents said Tuesday.
6,072,880 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Heavily-armed riot police on Thursday halted a community debate on a controversial bill that would allow President Bakili Muluzi to stand for a third term in 2004, the debate's organizers said.
6,072,886 -13.5 34 Malawi Malawi police have banned an inter-denominational prayer crusade scheduled for Saturday in the country's major cities, just over a week after they blocked a public debate here on President Bakili Muluzi's controversial bid for a third term.
6,072,894 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Police used tear gas and rubber bullets Monday to disperse members of rival camps of Malawi's main opposition party which clashed outside of the High Court wielding machetes, axes, and stones.
6,072,903 -13.5291 34.490299 Malawi Shortly after the clashes ended, High Court employees staged a rowdy strike, saying they would not return to their jobs until they received a salary increase.
6,072,910 -15.6826 35.093102 Malawi Malawi police said Monday a supporter of President Bakili Muluzi died at the weekend after a clash with knife-wilding members of an opposition pressure group.
6,072,919 -13.9833 33.783298 Malawi Chakuamba, the leader of the main opposition Malawi Congress Party, was arrested Sunday along with his personal secretary, Grace Mhango, and parliamentarians Demster Chikhawo and George Lowe were arrested Monday morning.
6,072,925 -11.4648 34.0229 Malawi A Malawi opposition official has been charged with a traffic offence after he organised a noisy protest against a bill that would allow President Bakili Muluzi to run for a third term, court officials said Wednesday.
6,072,933 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Malawi riot police on Friday fired teargas to stop a protest march in Blantyre, the commercial capital, against a third term bid by President Bakili Muluzi, after rival supporters were headed for a clash.
6,072,941 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Malawian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets Thursday at protesting street vendors who blocked a highway with boulders, looted shops and pelted cars with stones.
6,072,947 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Malawi's powerful lobby group of mainly Christain churches Sunday called for demonstrations against President Bakili Muluzi's bid to stand for a third term in office.
6,072,953 -13.9833 33.783298 Malawi Malawi's powerful lobby group of mainly Christain churches Sunday called for demonstrations against President Bakili Muluzi's bid to stand for a third term in office.
6,072,958 -11.4648 34.0229 Malawi Malawi's powerful lobby group of mainly Christain churches Sunday called for demonstrations against President Bakili Muluzi's bid to stand for a third term in office.
6,072,965 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi More than 4,000 UDF supporters, some carrying stones, machetes and knives, broke all the windows of the university's library.
6,072,973 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi A group of Malawi's Young Democrats, the youth wing of President Bakili Muluzi's ruling party, on Tuesday beat up four people outside a magistrate's court here, seriously injuring a woman.
6,072,979 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Around 18 supporters of rival political parties were injured at the weekend in central Malawi when police fired teargas to break up clashes between government and opposition supporters, officials told AFP Monday.
6,072,986 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Several people were injured by flying crates and furniture and thousands of dollars worth of property was destroyed Monday when violence erupted at a convention to select the presidential candidate for the main opposition party in Malawi.
6,072,994 -13.5291 34.490299 Malawi Police fired tear gas Friday to disperse a violent crowd protesting the secret removal from Malawi of 5 Muslim foreign nationals suspected of being al-Qaeda agents.
6,073,003 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Militant youths allied with Malawi's ruling party attacked a newspaper photographer Monday outside the party's national congress.
6,073,009 -15.793 34.993599 Malawi Two people were wounded when Malawi riot police fired live rounds at a crowd to stop a rally by opposition parties in Blantyre, an opposition spokesman said.
6,073,016 -15.3833 35.333302 Malawi Police have arrested 46 student protesters from the University of Malawi after they clashed with riot police during a demonstration, a police officer said Sunday.
6,073,023 -16.9212 35.262199 Malawi Police in southern Malawi on Monday shot dead two opposition supporters who hurled stones at a police station after a fellow sympathizer died in detention, an opposition party spokesman said Tuesday.
6,073,029 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Earlier Saturday, security forces fired tear gas to disperse more than 1,000 demonstrators protesting the delay in announcing results from Thursday's parliamentary and presidential elections.
6,073,035 -15.5603 35.395901 Malawi More than 600 former tea estate workers marched on a Malawi district commissioner's office Thursday, threatening to burn down the government estates if they didn't receive severance pay.
6,073,043 -13.5291 34.490299 Malawi Judges from Malawi's high and supreme courts of appeal have gone on strike to press demands for a fleet of 26 new four-wheeled drive vehicles, a court official said on Friday.
6,073,051 -13.9833 33.783298 Malawi About 4,000 civil servants in Malawi blocked off access to government offices in Lilongwe on Friday at the launch of a strike to press demands for more pension benefits, a union leader said.
6,073,056 -14.0291 33.990299 Malawi A local official from the grain marketing board who declined to be named said riots have broken out in recent weeks when maize deliveries arrive.
6,073,063 -13.9833 33.783298 Malawi A Malawi High Court issued an injunction Monday preventing the questioning of former Malawi President Bakili Muluzi about allegations that 1.4 billion kwacha (US$12 million, [euro]10 million) in donor funds were diverted to his personal account
6,073,069 -15.9333 35.0667 Malawi Police on Tuesday fired on a mob outside the home of a Chinese businessman rumored to have abducted and eaten a number of boys in the southern tea-growing town of Bvumbwe.
6,073,076 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Human rights groups in Malawi on Thursday protested a planned visit by Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, who is accused of widespread abuses in his economically troubled country.
6,073,083 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Thousands of street vendors and anti-riot police clashed in street battles in Malawi's commercial capital, Blantyre, Monday as the vendors protested government efforts to evict them.
6,073,089 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Up to 10,000 villagers were mobilised by Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika's party here Tuesday to pressure an opposition-dominated parliament to stop blocking a budget vote.
6,073,096 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi A coalition of Malawian church leaders and human rights activists held a candlelit vigil and prayers Thursday to beseech God to intercede in the deteriorating human rights and political situation in Zimbabwe.
6,073,103 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Malawian rights activists on Tuesday staged a peaceful march in a bid to pressurise the opposition to drop demands to expel 41 lawmakers and instead debate the budget of the impoverished country.
6,073,109 -13.9833 33.783298 Malawi Students throwing rocks beseiged Malawi's parliament Monday, forcing MPs to shelter inside the building in the town of Lilongwe, a parliamentary official who declined to be named said.
6,073,114 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Ex-president supporters protest outside of courthouse, protesting charges of embezzlement
6,073,120 -15.8025 34.996899 Malawi Opposition parties hold a rally over term limits, and speakers are later jailed
6,073,126 -13.75 33.766701 Malawi Villagers protest, claiming the government failed to properly reimburse them for land Madonna used to build a school
6,073,131 -11.4648 34.0229 Malawi Northerners attempt to hold a protest rally accusng the President of discrimination, but are violently stopped by police