By Kwasi Kpodo and Jeff Mason
ACCRA (Reuters) – President Barack Obama was given a hero’s welcome in Ghana on Friday on his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office as the first black president of the United States.
It was a poignant moment for Africans as the leader of the world’s most powerful country, the [...]

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By The Canadian Press
 
L’AQUILA, Italy - Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized to his chief political rival Friday, after attacking Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff for comments he never made.
“During my press conference I attacked Mr. Ignatieff for some things he had allegedly said about Canada in the G8,” Harper said in a statement only to television [...]

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By KAREN ARAIZA
John Duesler and wife, Bernice say allegations that the Valley Swim Club turned young campers away because of their race are absolutely untrue.
The President of the Valley Swim Club finally talked Friday, with his wife at his side, apologizing and explaining that the private club’s best intentions were misunderstood in about the worst [...]

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Somali militia set camp in Nairobi’s posh estates
By Juma Kwayera
Having ruled out military intervention to end civilian carnage in Somalia, Kenya is bracing for confrontation with Islamist insurgents in the war-ravaged Horn of Africa nation that has not known peace for two decades.
Even as Al-Shabaab warned of felling Nairobi’s skyscrapers in retaliation if Kenya heeds [...]

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By Evans Audi
A Kisumu NGO, VIMA has been hit by a multi-million scandal forcing its nitial donors from Britain to pull tight their purse strings.
The British donors last week slapped the ban on further funding of the organization citing massive corruption, nepotism, and ineptitude among its top leadership.
In a letter faxed from London and copied [...]

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