ICC ‘evaluating reports on Kenya’ICC ‘evaluating reports on Kenya’
By  DAVID MUGONYI
As politicians differ over the Waki Report, the International Criminal Court on Friday confirmed that it was studying various reports on post-election violence with a view to taking action.
The office of the ICC prosecutor told the Saturday Nation that it had received multiple reports on [...]

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By Jeff Mason and Caren Bohan
CHICAGO (Reuters) - With his choice of Hillary Clinton as secretary of state all but certain, President-elect Barack Obama promised on Friday to bring a “fresh perspective” to U.S. relations with the rest of the world.
Obama, who takes over from George W. Bush on January 20, has criticized the Republican’s [...]

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has accepted an offer from President-elect Barack Obama to become U.S. secretary of state, joining her former Democratic rival to help guide U.S. foreign policy, the New York Times said on Friday.
The newspaper quoted two Clinton associates who said she came to her decision [...]

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By Joseph Mwihia, The Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya - Somali pirates have collected more than $150 million US in ransoms over the past year, Kenya’s foreign affairs minister said Friday, calling on ship owners not to pay when their vessels are hijacked.
In the past two weeks Somalia’s increasingly brazen pirates have seized eight vessels including a [...]

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LUANDA (AFP) - Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos voiced support Friday for Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila as he denounced the conflict in eastern DR Congo.
“(Dos Santos) condemned the armed rebellion and the possible external interferences. He reaffirms his support for the Congolese people and the government which was legitimately elected,” a [...]

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MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somali pirates built up their defences around a captured Saudi Arabian super-tanker Friday after demanding a 25 million dollar ransom.
As foreign navies sent warships to Somalia’s dangerous waters and shipping companies sought alternative routes, extra clan militia and other fighters were brought in at the pirate lair of Harardhere, residents said.
“Some of [...]

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By Agwanda Jakorandoh
BABY NAMED OBAMA STOLEN.
Dorcas Aoko Otieno had innocently welcomed the stranger into her house last evening after she beseeched her to offer and accommodation for the evening.
However when she left briefly to buy a meal for the two of them, her week old son Barrack Obama was gone,
The joy of giving [...]

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