AU chief condemns Bashir warrants Al Jazeera | The African Union president has criticised International Criminal Court (ICC) indictments against Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, saying they were "undermining African solidarity and African peace and security". | Bingu wa Mutharika, who is also the Malawian president, urged Afri...
The grim business of chasing mass killers Irish Times | Darfur is the first genocide of the 21st century, it should be the last, says the ICC's chief prosecutor, writes ARTHUR BEESLEY European Correspondent in The Hague | A ring of fortified electric fencing surrounds the tower blocks in The Hague which are home to the International Criminal Court (ICC...
Memorial service set for Del. man killed in Uganda The News & Observer | WILMINGTON, Del. -- A Delaware native killed in a terrorist bombing in Uganda is being memorialized in his boyhood church in Wilmington. | A spokeswoman said Thursday that Bethel Baptist Church is preparing for an overflow crowd of 800 at Nathan He...
Somalia THE WRONG STRATEGY Gareowe Online By Ali Osman | The crisis in Somalia is spiraling out of control and no one seems to know how to handle it. A report by the International Crisis Group shows since 2006 the situation in Somalia “has deteriorated into one of the world’s worst human...
The Chilcot Inquiry, Aggression and the ICC Scoop Thursday, 29 July 2010, 6:36 pm | Column: Peter Dyer | The Chilcot Inquiry, Aggression and the International Criminal Court | by | George W. Bush addresses the nation from the Oval Office at the White House Wednesday evening, March 19, 2003, announci...
Militant Alliance Adds to Somalia's Turmoil The New York Times | NAIROBI, Kenya — An insurgent commander based in the semiautonomous region of Puntland in northern Somalia has pledged his allegiance to the Shabab militant group, a move that threatens to destabilize a part of Somalia that had been relativel...
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US national charged with trying to join Somali Shebab Breitbart | Shebab fighters stand during a military exercise in northern Mogadishu's Su... | A 20-year-old US national has been arrested and charged with trying to join Somalia's Shebab mili...
Darfurian refugees want Bashir tried for war crimes Daily Star Lebanon | By Robert Cusack | Special to The Daily Star | Tuesday, July 20, 2010 | - Powered by | BEIRUT: Approximately 98 percent of Darfurian refugees would like Sudanese President Omar a...
Sudan systematically tortures detainees - Amnesty The Star | KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's security forces systematically torture detainees and enjoy immunity from prosecution, Amnesty International said on Monday, urging Khartoum to reform...
AU reluctant to change role in Somalia CNN Is AU facing Somalia trap? | Munyonyo, Uganda (CNN) -- The African Union summit ended Tuesday without a resolution to change the mandate of its mission in Somalia from peacekeeping to peace enforcing, despite calls from some African leaders to do so....
African Union reluctant to change peacekeeping mandate in Somalia CNN | Munyonyo, Uganda (CNN) -- The African Union summit ended Tuesday without a resolution to change the mandate of its mission in Somalia from peacekeeping to peace enforcing, despite calls from some African leaders to do so. | "We have not made a reso...
Somalia: The Dilemma of 'Peacekeeping' [Opinion] Gareowe Online | by Faysal Abdikarim** | The recent Kampala bombing claimed by Alshabaab, Somalia’s notorious Islamist insurgents fighting the government, has left alarm bells ringing in the troubled Horn of Africa. The nightmare of Alshabaab posing regional thre...
President Mills returns from Kampala Joy Online President John Evans Atta Mills, returned home this afternoon from Kampala,Uganda, where he attended the 15th Summit of Heads of State and government of the African Union(AU). | He was accompanied by some government officials. | In a brief chat with journalists on arrival at the Kotoka International Airport, President Mills said the theme of the su...
Worst floods in a decade in China, 30,000 trapped The Guardian | CHI-CHI ZHANG | Associated Press Writer= BEIJING (AP) — Floods caused by heavy rains in northeastern China stranded tens of thousands of residents without power Wednesday, as the worst flooding in more than a decade continued to besiege many areas of the country. | Floods this year have killed at least 928 people with 477 missing and caused ten...
