Heavenly qualifications
By Rev Okoth Otura
We are being reminded in the book of 1 Peter,  that we are God’s, royal priesthood, a Holy nation, a people belonging to Heaven, and that God has simply made it possible by our union with Christ by faith to acquire Heavenly citizenship.
God’s calling in our lives is to separate us from the worldly lifestyle and to [...]

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama made nearly $2.5 million in 2008 from the sales of his two best-selling memoirs, according to tax information released by the White House on Wednesday.
 
Obama jointly filed his 2008 federal income tax return with his wife Michelle, reporting an adjusted gross income of $2,656,902 and paying $855,323 in federal [...]

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By Mohamed Ahmed
 
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Dutch commandos freed 20 Yemeni hostages on Saturday and briefly detained seven pirates who had forced the Yemenis to sail a “mother ship” attacking vessels in the Gulf of Aden, NATO officials said.
In a separate incident, gunmen from Somalia seized a Belgian-registered ship and its 10 crew, including seven Europeans, [...]

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By MacDonald Dzirutwe
HARARE (Reuters) -Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his rival, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, celebrated independence from Britain together for the first time Saturday, a possible sign that political tensions are easing.
Their cooperation is vital if Zimbabwe is to rebuild an economy that has been ravaged by hyperinflation and unemployment at around 90 percent. [...]

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By Barrack Muluka
You don’t negotiate with a person like Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni. He does not understand that kind of language. But you don’t go to war with him either, for that would be worse than foolish. You simply deny him oxygen for a few days.
The trouble with people like Museveni is that they have [...]

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BY AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
- Arresting Somali pirates may be the easy part. Foreign navies in the region have detained dozens of them but the ensuing legal avenues are ill-defined and raise human rights concerns.
Since piracy surged dramatically in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden in late 2007, the growing fleet of foreign warships in [...]

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