US President-elect Barack Obama has taken part in a high-powered lunch at the White House.
President George W Bush hosted the event to give his successor the chance to meet former Presidents George HW Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.
It was the first such meeting since 1981. US presidents usually only gather at sombre events such [...]

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ODM issues fresh demands over Prime Minister’s office
By Isaac Ongiri and Joseph Murimi
Fissures in the Grand coalition appeared to widen as ODM tabled fresh demands over the powers of the Prime minister, Vice-President and Head of Civil Service.
The Orange party is now demanding that its leader Raila Odinga assumes the role of Leader of [...]

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John Atta Mills has been sworn in as Ghana’s new president following a cliff-hanger election victory.
Mr Atta Mills, 64, took his oath of allegiance in front of thousands of people in Independence Square for the inauguration in the capital, Accra.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate beat the ruling party’s Nana Akufo-Addo in a hotly contested [...]

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama, who faces trillion-dollar government deficits stretching into coming years, named on Wednesday a former Treasury official as the first U.S. “chief performance officer” to oversee budget and spending reform.
 
Nancy Killefer, a director at McKinsey & Company and a former assistant Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, will work with [...]

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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - U.S. president-elect Barack Obama says he is concerned about the violence in Gaza but is wary of sending conflicting messages about American foreign policy.
Obama was asked today at a news conference why he hadn’t said more publicly about the continuing violence in the Mideast. He replied by repeating earlier statements [...]

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By The Canadian Press
TORONTO - The first woman soldier to flee the U.S. military to avoid the Iraq war has been ordered deported along with her husband and their young children.
Kimberly Rivera said her risk assessment application and request to stay in Canada on humanitarian and compassionate grounds were rejected Wednesday.
“It’s a pretty say day [...]

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Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA — Hundreds of embattled Palestinians ventured outside to shop for food on Wednesday during a three-hour Gaza truce, a first step towards an Egyptian-proposed ceasefire under discussion by Israel and Hamas.
“Food and milk — what else can we hope for in three hours,” said Ahmed Abu Kamel, a father of six who lives [...]

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