By Barbara Among
and agencies
A total of 2,500 United Nations (UN) non-essential staff in Sudan are being evacuated to Uganda despite assurances from Khartoum that it would protect peacekeepers and humanitarian workers.
The first 100 workers arrived in Entebbe last night as Islamist protesters rallied behind Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir over allegations he mastermined a [...]
Security minister Amama Mbabazi gesturing as Zuma greets Adonia Ayebare, Uganda’s UN ambassador, at Entebbe
By Milton Olupot
JACOB Zuma, the leader of South Africa’s ruling party ANC, arrived last evening for a four-day visit as a guest of the National Resistance Movement. Accompanied by a number of ANC officials, he flew in aboard a [...]
Women oppose pardon for rapists
Story by MUGO NJERU
Rapists should not be given amnesty, the Waki commission of inquiry was Tuesday told.
Instead, the commission was asked to recommend to President Kibaki immediate prosecution of those who raped or committed other forms of gender-based violence and are still on the run.
Ms Regina Karega, [...]
By Caren Bohan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Tuesday a “single-minded” focus on Iraq was distracting the United States from other threats, and he promised to end the war and shift resources to fighting al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Obama, embroiled in sharp debate with Republican White House rival John [...]
Raila meeting endorses Mau evictions
BY CATHERINE KARONG’O
The government Tuesday issued an October deadline for the eviction of people living in Mau Forest without valid title deeds.
The decree was issued after a day-long inter-ministerial meeting on the conservation of Mau forest complex chaired by Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
This would be enforced by an eight-ministries’ taskforce [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Africa must ensure that the people of Zimbabwe break free of President Robert Mugabe’s “tyranny” to ensure stability in southern Africa, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday.
“In the Mugabe regime we see the page of history that Africa must turn, a leader for independence, which inherited a nation full of [...]
By Chris Buckley
BEIJING (Reuters) - China expressed “grave concern” on Tuesday after the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor charged Sudan’s president with genocide in Darfur.
In Khartoum, the United Nations told its staff to stay at home as thousands of Sudanese prepared to rally in support of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Monday asked [...]
BY AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
SYDNEY, -The biggest mass ever held in Australia will officially launch World Youth Day events on Tuesday, with 150,000 Catholic pilgrims expected to attend, organisers said.
The mass at Sydney Harbour will be celebrated by the leader of Australia’s Catholics, Cardinal George Pell, and attended by 26 cardinals, 400 bishops and 3,000 to [...]
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