By Caren Bohan
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Barack Obama said President George W. Bush’s decision to send a senior diplomat to nuclear talks with Iran was a substantive move and should be taken seriously by Tehran.
Obama, a Democrat, has been highly critical in the past of Bush’s policies toward Iran and has promised that if [...]
By Opheera McDoom
KHARTOUM, (Reuters) - Sudan’s former southern rebels said on Sunday their leader would run for the presidency in elections due next year under a landmark 2005 peace deal which ended Africa’s longest civil war.
Sudan’s north-south civil war ended with an accord that shared power and wealth, created a semi-autonomous south Sudan, and envisaged [...]
Don’t pay Mau forest farmers, says Ntimama
National Heritage minister William ole Ntimama says the title deeds issued to Mau Forest settlers were “illegal”.
By BERNARD NAMUNANE
In Summary
1) Ntimama says MPs pushing for compensation engaging the Government in political blackmail.
2) People who have settled in the forest given 90 days to leave and a committee formed to [...]
KARUA: I will not stop campaigning
BY CORRESPONDENT
MERU, July 27 - Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs Minister Martha Karua on Sunday told off politicians who are urging her to stop early campaigns saying she was equally performing in her ministerial duties.
Speaking at Nthimbiri Methodist Church during her second day tour of Imenti North constituency, Karua [...]
Amnesty: Police release thousands
BY BERNARD MOMANYI and EVELYNE NJOROGE
It has now emerged that many of the suspects arrested during the post election violence have been released.
Many of the suspects who were mainly locked up in various police stations in the Rift Valley started arriving home last month.
On Sunday there were reports that a group [...]
BELGRADE (Reuters) - The legal team of war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic has filed an appeal to delay his extradition to the United Nations tribunal in The Hague, Karadzic’s brother said on Sunday.
The leader of the Bosnian Serbs in the 1992-95 Bosnia war, who is indicted twice for genocide, was arrested last week after 11 [...]
Museveni is sandwiched by the youth at Rwakitura on Saturday as they flashed their four fingers to show support for the President’s fourth term
By Raymond Baguma
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has appealed to the youth to support the Government’s programmes aimed at attracting investment.
He also asked them to join the Government in fighting forces that [...]
( Mbabene-Swaziland)PIGG’S PEAK, Swaziland (AFP) - The population of the AIDS-riven kingdom of Swaziland, already one of the smallest countries in Africa, has fallen by around a fifth in the last decade, figures showed Friday.
Announcing the findings of a census conducted last year, Economic Planning and Development Minister Absalom Dlamini said the population now stands [...]
By Judy Miriga
USA
This is rediculous, a show of incompetence personnel in PM’s Office.
“The deputy USA ambassador to Kenya had an appointment to see PM Raila at 11am on Friday. But at 10am, the official from PM Office called the deputy ambassador and rescheduled the meeting for noon. He arrived Five minutes to the appointed [...]
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