KIGALI
Rwanda asked the German ambassador to leave Kigali on Tuesday in a growing row over Germany’s arrest of a senior aide to President Paul Kagame.
Rose Kabuye, the director general of state protocol, was arrested at Frankfurt airport on Sunday by German police acting on an international warrant issued by France in 2006 for her and [...]

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Hague: We are ready to act on Waki report
 
International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo speaks during a news conference in the Hague.
By DAVID MUGONYI and BERNARD NAMUNANE 
Summary
1) Kenya has no option but to form tribunal, says the chief prosecutor at ICC
The International Criminal Court has warned that if Kenya does not move fast to [...]

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Police tear gas displaced women 
By CASPER WAITHAKA
In Summary
1) Protesters demand to see President or Prime Minister over broken promises
Hundreds of internal refugees, most of them women, were tear gassed by police as they staged a peaceful demonstration outside Parliament.
The refugees were demanding an audience with either President Kibaki or Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
The women, most [...]

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By Jeremy Pelofsky
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday President George W. Bush did not link support for economic stimulus measures or further aid to U.S. automakers to congressional passage of free trade pacts in a meeting with President-elect Barack Obama.
“The president did not suggest a quid-pro-quo,” White House spokeswoman Dana Perino [...]

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COVINGTON, La. – An Oklahoma woman invited to a rural Louisiana campsite for a Ku Klux Klan initiation ritual was shot and killed after she asked to be taken back to town, the sheriff of a New Orleans suburb said Tuesday.
Eight people were arrested after authorities found the woman’s body hidden under some brush, on [...]

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By Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press
MONTREAL - With his political party struggling mightily in the polls, Action democratique du Quebec Leader Mario Dumont is playing a card that helped sweep his team into the Opposition in the 2007 election - hoping to capitalize on people’s concerns about identity and values.
The ADQ leader has waded into [...]

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By Hereward Holland
 GOMA, Congo (Reuters) - Packed into squalid refugee camps or roaming in the bush, hundreds of thousands of Congolese children face hunger, disease, sexual abuse or recruitment by marauding armed factions, aid workers said on Tuesday.
Weeks of violence have forced more than 250,000 people from homes or ramshackle camps where they had taken [...]

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The US Displeasure with Recent Events in Africa
By Scott A Morgan
Last Week the United States Peacefully Voted for a Change in Government. After 8 years the Republican Administration of George W Bush will be replaced by Democratic Senator Barack Obama. Other Pundits have been determining what situation in the World will be the focus [...]

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ODM rejects MPs’ against move Waki
By  LUCAS BARASA and DAVID MUGONYI

In Summary
1) Party backtracks on drive to turn down report on post-poll violence
2) THE Orange Democratic Movement on Monday backtracked on its anti-Waki stance and agreed instead to look afresh at the judge’s report.
3) The party’s decision possibly to reverse the decision by its own [...]

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