WASHINGTON (AFP) - The wife of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama spoke passionately about her working class roots Friday as she filled in for her husband who has rushed to be with his ailing grandmother.
“So as many of you may know, Barack is off the campaign trail today. He flew to Hawaii last night to [...]

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HONOLULU, Hawaii (AFP) - Barack Obama Friday grabbed a few precious hours with his gravely ill grandmother in Hawaii, after saying the woman he calls a “rock” of his life may not live until the election in 11 days.
The Democratic presidential nominee headed back to the apartment block where his grandmother Madelyn Dunham, 85, who [...]

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By Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council will likely authorize deployment of some special forces and new military hardware to help U.N. troops better protect civilians from increasing violence in Congo, diplomats said.
Earlier this month Alan Doss, head of the U.N. mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC), asked the Security [...]

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NYANDO MP NOW ON THE WAR PATH
By JEFF OTIENO
The newly elected Nyando legislator Fred Outa is a besieged man and has decided to vent his anger on his own electorates.

It all emerged last weekend during the burial of Paul Ouya the brother to Siaya Town Clerk Patrick Ouya when the legislator took the podium and [...]

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By Agwanda Saye
Cabinet Minister Fred Gumo yesterday praises the Dominion Farms as a viable project that has made change the lives of the people of Alego where is mother came from and must be protected at all cost. Hon Fred Gumo is a grandson of the late power chief Mzee Amoth Awira of Alego in [...]

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By Pius Mwemba [...]

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The Problems in the Eastern DRC will not Go Away
By Scott A Morgan
Regardless of Threats from the Central Government in Kinshasa or MONUC (UN Mission in the Congo) it is apparent that the various Militia Groups that are active in the Kivu Provinces are not afraid of the Kabila Government or its allies.

Over the last [...]

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia, which sent a warship to Somalia’s coast to combat pirates, asked the African nation on Thursday for carte blanche to use force in its territorial waters.
Last month Moscow sent the frigate “Neustrashimy” — or “Fearless” — to the Gulf of Aden, and the Russian navy said at the time that [...]

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