Row over MPs’ role in election violence report
By BERNARD NAMUNANE
In Summary

Karua says Parliament could not direct the Government on how to implement the Waki report on post-election violence
Parliamentary committee on Administration of Justice and Legal Affairs had also questioned the MPs’ decision to form the two committees. 

MPs have been told to keep their hands off the [...]

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates met Thursday with President-elect Barack Obama’s defense team, opening a more substantive phase of the political transition at the Defense Department.
Gates’s office sent out guidelines late Wednesday to Pentagon staff outlining the rules for interacting with a transition team that now numbers 16 persons, including several former [...]

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Governor General Michaelle Jean watches as the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod goes to summon Members of Parliament for the reading of the Throne Speech in the Senate Chamber on Parliament Hill in Ottawa Wednesday Nov 19, 2008. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
By Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - The Harper government is promising aid [...]

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By Nelson Banya
HARARE (Reuters) - South Africa said Thursday it will withhold aid for Zimbabwe until a representative government is in place, in what appeared to be the first punitive measure by a regional country to enforce a power-sharing agreement.
Toughening its stand, the South African government said it was “extremely concerned” about Zimbabwe’s political impasse, [...]

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The New Arms Race within Sudan: Recipe for Renewed War?

By Scott A Morgan
The Seizure of the MV Faina roughly a month and a half ago was indictitive of a major problem in Sudan. There is an Arms Race ongoing between the Government in Khartoum and the Autonomous Region of Southern Sudan.
The Internal Climate within [...]

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