M7 orders same fees for foreign students
By Francis Kagolo
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has ordered public universities and other institutions of higher learning to charge Ugandan and foreign students the same amount of tuition fees.
The practice of charging foreign students higher fees must stop immediately, he was quoted in a circular.
Museveni said a president from the region [...]

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By Muigwithani
Regional Decentralization(Majimbo) the way to go!Right now Kenya  needs three things Constituency boundary review,Provincial boundary review & Regional Decentralization-Majimbo.
On the Right the Central Jimbo and on the right the Central Jimbo Flag. Kikuyunationalism is on the right track.
 
The Nairobi must be part of the Central Jimbo and thus taxes will have to benefit the [...]

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IDPs camp outside Parliament for second day
By Beauttah Omanga
The plight of more than 500 IDPs camping outside Parliament continued for the second day.
They vowed to stay put until President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga addressed their problems.
The group told several leaders they had been threatened not to return to the homes they were evicted [...]

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Try suspects, says Rwanda tribunal official

By David Ochami in Arusha 
The Registrar of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Adama Dieng has said Kenya must try those implicated in the Waki Report on post-election violence.
He said civilians; politicians, security officers and their senior commanders are in the crosshairs of war crimes and crimes against humanity [...]

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By Deborah Charles
CHICAGO (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday named a bipartisan duo of Washington veterans to meet foreign delegations at this weekend’s global financial summit, opening communication between the next U.S. administration and its global counterparts.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, a Democrat, and former Republican Rep. Jim Leach will be available for [...]

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Michael Ignatieff is expected to announce his second Liberal leadership bid Thursday.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
By The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - Michael Ignatieff is poised to formally announce Thursday that he will run for the leadership of the federal Liberal party.
The Toronto MP and former Harvard academic is the perceived frontrunner in the contest to succeed Stephane [...]

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Pregnant women are reflected in a puddle as they stand in line to receive birth kits from a local NGO at a camp for Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Kibati, north of the provincial capital city of Goma. Thousands of displaced people who took refuge near a UN peacekeeping base in eastern Democratic Republic of [...]

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Czech President Vaclav Klaus (R) meets with Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen (L) in Iveagh House in Dublin, Ireland, on November 10, 2008. Klaus branded Ireland’s foreign minister a hypocrite Wednesday, in an unseemly row threatening to cast a cloud over EU efforts to resolve a crisis triggered by Irish voters. Photo:/AFP
DUBLIN (AFP) - Czech [...]

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By The Canadian Press
VANCOUVER, B.C. - An international survey has ranked Canada as the second-strongest national brand in the world.
But that doesn’t mean it’s the country most people want to visit - that honour went to Italy and Canada ranked eighth.
Still, the study’s author says Canada received top marks for selling itself as a destination [...]

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