By Jon Hemming
KABUL (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Barack Obama called the situation in Afghanistan “precarious and urgent” on Sunday after meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai during an overseas trip meant to burnish his foreign policy credentials.
Afghanistan is also the No. 1 front in the war on terrorism and Washington needs to “finish the job” [...]
Story by DANIEL WESANGULA
The blocks of buildings and tarmac roads in Mission, a town in the western Canadian province of British Columbia where James Atebe is mayor contrast sharply with the hilly terrain, dirt roads and footpaths cutting through tea farms in Ekerenyo village in North Mugirango where he grew up.
James Atebe (seated [...]
Zimbabwe talks ‘to move ahead’
Story from BBC NEWS:
Zimbabwe’s ruling party and opposition are close to agreeing the framework for talks on the country’s political crisis, Kenya’s prime minister says.
PM Raila Odinga, who spoke to Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Saturday, said the framework would be signed this week.
Mr Tsvangirai said [...]
By Peter Thatiah And David Ohito
With President Kibaki steadily fading out of the picture, the fight to control the Gema vote well ahead of 2012 has begun in earnest, The Standard can report. Prime Minister Raila Odinga, it is understood, is using allies to make forays into the region.
Preparations to crown him a Kikuyu [...]
Story from BBC NEWS;
The youngest son of the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has been released on bail in Switzerland after being charged with assaulting two of his servants.
Hannibal Gaddafi and his wife, who is heavily pregnant, were taken into custody on Tuesday after the alleged incident at a luxury hotel in Geneva.
The couple [...]
Story from BBC NEWS:
Arab foreign ministers say they have agreed a plan of action to defuse the crisis between Sudan and the International Criminal Court (ICC).
They met in Cairo after the ICC’s chief prosecutor said he would seek to indict Sudan’s president on charges of war crimes and genocide in Darfur.
Ministers said the [...]
By Opheera McDoom
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Darfur’s new chief mediator Djibril Bassole made his first visit to Sudan on Sunday to begins the uphill task of reviving a stalled peace process.
“This will be a difficult mission but it’s not mission impossible,” he told reporters after talks with Sudan’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Ali Karti.
Bassole, the [...]
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