Turkey Says It Won't Arrest Sudan President During Visit Wall Street Journal By NICHOLAS BIRCH in Konya, Turkey, and SARAH CHILDRESS in Nairobi, Kenya | Turkey will receive Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir next week and has no plans to arrest him, despite his indictment by an international court for war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region, senior Turkish officials said T...
Zim coalition on brink of collapse Independent online | Zimbabwe's troubled unity government is on the brink of collapse after President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday failed to break their stalemate over several issues. | Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) spokesman Nelson Chamisa confirmed last night that yesterday's m...
Human Rights Watch slams Uganda Aids bill Independent online | Human Rights Watch on Friday criticised Uganda's HIV and Aids bill, some of whose clauses call for mandatory testing of pregnant women, sex offenders and victims, and disclosure of HIV status. | The New York-based group said the bill "promotes dang...
One step forward . . . The Guardian | It's two years since Guardian readers began funding the project in rural Uganda. Progress has been made – but setbacks threaten to undermine it | Desta Agudo and other members of the Emorikikinos Savings Group meet after their money was stolen. P...
Turkey Says It Won't Arrest Sudan President During Visit Wall Street Journal By NICHOLAS BIRCH in Konya, Turkey, and SARAH CHILDRESS in Nairobi, Kenya | Turkey will receive Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir next week and has no plans to arrest him, despite his indictment by an international court for war crimes in Suda...
Rwanda genocide suspect arrested, extradited CNN From Samson Ntale | For CNN | KAMPALA, Uganda (CNN) -- Police in Uganda have arrested and extradited a man who is among the most wanted suspects in the Rwandan genocide. | IIdephon...
South Sudan struggling with Christian extremist LRA Middle East Online YAMBIO - Attacks attributed to Ugandan-led rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) have killed at least 188 civilians and displaced 68,000 in southern Sudan since January 2009, ...
Christian extremist SLA escalates south Sudan attacks Middle East Online YAMBIO - A surge in rebel attacks in southern Sudan by the Christian extremist Lords Resistance Army (LRA) rebels is creating grave concern, a senior UN official said on Friday. |...
Court Rejects Lubega's Appeal All Africa BUGANDA information minister Medard Lubega was Thursday ordered to continue reporting to Buganda Road Court, despite a request by his lawyer to have the trial over sedition charges halted. | ...
Mengo Postpones Buganda Conference All Africa THE Buganda kingdom has postponed its Ttabamiruka (conference), which had been scheduled to take place this month. According to Mengo Attorney General Apolo Makubuya it has been postponed to December. | ...
Is Christian extremist LRA heading to Darfur? Middle East Online KHARTOUM - Uganda's Christian extremist rebel Lord's Resistance Army, the feared abductors of children who have spread fear in east-central Africa, are now rumoured to be heading into new terrain in Sudan's troubled Darfur. | A brutal guerrilla group...
Thailand's fugitive ex-leader tries new tactic to return to power after 2006 coup Hartford Courant (AP) — fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has spent much of the past three years roaming the globe, shopping for diamonds in Africa, golfing at Asian resorts — and humiliating the government from a distance. | After stirring up sometimes violent passions from afar among his supporters and opponents inside Thailand, the de...
Instant freezing to preserve food supplies Journal Online Fishpond owners in the flood-stricken Pangasinan could have avoided losing millions due to the onslaught of typhoon ‘‘Pepeng’’ if only they have that new technology that would allow them to harvest early, sell only a portion of their catch so as not to overflow the market and turn the rest of the harvest into instant frozen “bangus” pro...
