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Rwandan President Paul Kagame has named a new Defence Minister, Gen. James Kabarebe, replacing Gen. Marcel Gatsinzi, in top-level military changes announced at the weekend. Mr Kagame named...
Richard Dawkins calls for Pope to be put on trial
Critics including Christopher Hitchens are exploring legal options for Pope Benedict XVI to face trial in UK
Helen Pidd
guardian.co.uk...
President Barack Obama has said the biggest threat to US security is the possibility of a terrorist organisation obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Speaking on the eve of a nuclear security summit in...
By CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO
Over the Easter break I was catching up on newspaper clippings I have been saving, but hadnt got round to digesting.
I found an interesting one from the Independent...
Algeria Arrests Mossad Agent With Fake Spanish Passport
Algerian authorities have arrested an Israeli Mossad agent carrying a fake Spanish passport in the city of Hassi Messaoud near an...
George W. Bush 'Knew Guantánamo Prisoners Were Innocent'
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp...
Terreblanche laid to rest in South Africa
The funeral of South Africa's white supremacist Eugene Terreblanche, who was killed at his farm on Saturday, has taken place without major...
Police Smash Israeli Organ-Trafficking Ring
A retired army brigadier general is among six suspects arrested by Israeli police investigating an organ-trafficking ring, police say.
The...
Five killed in Centre Africa attack blamed on LRA rebels: police
BANGUI (AFP) Five people were killed in an attack at the weekend blamed on Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the...
UN staff die in DR Congo clashes
A UN peacekeeper has been killed in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo after suspected tribal fighters clashed with government forces, officials have said...
Zimbabwe's Bishop Abel Muzorewa dies
Bishop Muzorewa lost elections to Robert Mugabe
By Peter Biles
BBC News
One of the most prominent political figures in the turbulent years...
Wabunge washtushwa ATCL kudaiwa 39 bilioniSadick Mtulya
WAJUMBE wa Kamati ya Bunge ya Miundombinu, wameshutshwa na deni la Sh39 bilioni na gharama ambazo Shirika la Ndege Tanzania (ATCL)...
AP Pedestrians walk-by the Embassy of Qatar in Washington, Wednesday, April 7, 2010. A Qatari diplomat trying
By IVAN MORENO and DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writers
DENVER An...
Vatican confirms report of sexual abuse and rape of nuns by priests in 23 countries
The Catholic Church in Rome made the extraordinary admission yesterday that it is aware priests from at least...
Trapped in Rwanda: Presidential hopeful, Victoire IngabireVictoire Ingabire Umuhoza, the President of the United Democratic
Forces opposition party in Rwanda now accuses the ruling RPF party of...
Uganda on Wednesday gave up its claim on Migingo Island and apologised for what it said was an inaccurate decision based on wrong interpretation of a 1962 map.
In compensation, it announced...
Viongozi wa Zimbabwe na Rais Jacob Zuma wa Afrika Kusini, wamekubalia kuchukuliwa kwa hatua kadhaa, kwa ajili ya kuzuia kuvunjika kwa serikali ya umoja wa kitaifa nchini Zimbabwe, ambayo...
Somebody has to spill out the beans sometimes!! Some brave characters? I will put the whole message here for consistency...
THE Supreme Court yesterday jailed a human rights activist Victor...