By ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer Robert Burns
WASHINGTON – Flanked by the leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan, President Barack Obama expressed deep U.S. regret Wednesday for civilian casualties in a deadly incident this week in western Afghanistan, promising “every effort” to avoid recurrences in the war against a rising Taliban insurgency. Obama had a [...]

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by Godfrey Marawanyika 
HARARE (AFP) – Zimbabwe authorities on Wednesday released 15 activists on bail and the IMF restored relations with Harare in moves that bolstered the troubled African nation’s fragile unity government.
The activists, including leading rights campaigner Jestina Mukoko, were detained on Tuesday over an alleged plot against President Robert Mugabe.
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement [...]

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Support for presidential term limits doubles
Benon Herbert Oluka

Kampala
The number of Ugandans who want the Constitution to limit the president to serving a maximum of two terms in office has doubled in the last four years, results of the Afrobarometer opinion poll indicate.
Parliament controversially voted to lift term limits in September 2005 and a similar poll [...]

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BY BERNARD MOMANYI
A Kenyan Arsenal fan committed suicide on Wednesday following his team’s 4-1 aggregate drubbing by arch-rivals Manchester United in Tuesday night’s Champions League semi-final.
Suleiman Alphonso Omondi, 29, living in Nairobi’s Embakasi neighbourhood, hung himself in his Arsenal shirt after the match late on Tuesday.
His friends told Capital News that he had been watching [...]

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BY JUDIE KABERIA
Maendeleo Ya Wanawake Organisation (MYWO) said on Wednesday that the seven-day sex boycott by women had been successful.
MYWO Chairperson Rukia Subow cited a meeting held on Tuesday by President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga, as proof that their agitation for political leadership had borne fruit.
“It has worked! Though we are calling [...]

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Did this man lie?
By Standard Team
Could Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta have duped MPs into passing an extra Sh9 billion in the Supplementary Budget presented to Parliament last week?
This was the shocking question confronting Parliament yesterday, prompting the Speaker to order for a ministerial statement on Wednesday.
It all began when Imenti Central MP Gitobu Imanyara rose [...]

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