Roads funds not shared fairly, says MP
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( Luo Nyanza Jimbo roads condition, photo)
An MP has accused the Government of favouring some regions in allocating resources.
Mr John Mbadi (Gwassi, ODM) demanded to know on Wednesday, why there were disparities in money set aside for road projects during the 2008/2009 Financial Year.
Contributing during the fourth [...]
By Milton Olupot
The Government has urged Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe to stop the violence and allow the people exercise their democratic rights to elect a new president.
Foreign affairs minister Sam Kutesa said on Tuesday that Uganda was concerned about the trend of events in Zimbabwe where election violence had claimed dozens of lives and displaced thousands. [...]
By Caren Bohan
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Wednesday the international community must do more try to help resolve Zimbabwe’s political crisis and to pressure President Robert Mugabe who is clinging to power.
He singled out South Africa as one country that needs to apply more pressure on Mugabe, 84, who has [...]
Former South African leader Nelson Mandela has added his voice to the growing international condemnation of the political violence in Zimbabwe.
In his first public comments about the crisis, he noted “the tragic failure of leadership” of President Robert Mugabe.
Southern African leaders earlier called for Friday’s run-off presidential vote to be postponed because conditions did not [...]
Raila: Send AU forces to Zimbabwe
By Abiya Ochola
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has proposed a peacekeeping force be sent to Zimbabwe to forestall an impending genocide.
The PM also called for the suspension of Friday’s re-run of Presidential election in the southern African country.
“Kenya’s stand is not in doubt. We are with the people of Zimbabwe. We [...]
By Raf Casert, The Associated Press
BASEL, Switzerland - Philipp Lahm ended Turkey’s storybook run in the European Championship on Wednesday by scoring a 90th-minute goal to give Germany a 3-2 semifinal victory and keep it on target for a record fourth title.
(Germany’s Bastian Schweinsteiger reacts after scoring his teams first goal during the Euro 2008 [...]
By Caren Bohan
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Wednesday his top choice for running mate would be someone who would offer sound advice and “tell me where he or she thinks I’m wrong.”
Obama has kept his search for a vice presidential candidate close to the vest.
He has named Caroline Kennedy, [...]
By Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton brushed off suggestions on Wednesday that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, does not seem to share her enthusiasm for campaigning for Democratic White House candidate Barack Obama.
“He has said he will do whatever he can and whatever he is asked to do,” Clinton said, a day after [...]
David Emerson, new Canada foreign Minister photo
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made minor changes to his Conservative cabinet on Wednesday to fill a gap left by the forced resignation last month of Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier over a security scandal.
But Harper’s choice of David Emerson, a former political opponent, as the new [...]
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