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What Will President Kagame Learn from the Sentencing of President Mubarak?
Jennifer Fierberg, MSW Within all the discussions it is clear that the time for action is at hand. Paul Kagame during a recent US visit. Photo by Jenn Fierberg (WASHINGTON…
Huye: Yivuganye mukeba we akoresheje agafuni, ahita ajya no kugakuza ibirayi.
Mu ma saa mbiri za mu gitondo zo kuri uyu wa gatatu, mu mudugudu wa Mahwa, akagari ka Kabatwa, umurenge wa Kigoma ho mu Karere ka Huye, Nyiransabimana Francine w’…
Plane Crashes Into Building In Nigeria’s Largest City
LAGOS, Nigeria — A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighborhood in Nigeria's largest city on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and others on the ground in…
Egypt Hosni Mubarak gets life imprisonment, sons acquitted
The former president of Egypt Hosni Mubarak was found guilty of failure to prevent the killing of protesters and given a life imprisonment sentence; but was acquitted of corruption charges.…
Tens of thousands flee ‘extreme violence’ in Congo
Aid workers say more than 100,000 people in North Kivu have fled mass executions, mutilations and rapes by armed militias The number of displaced people in DRC is believed to…
Shock As 9-year-old Kenyan Girl Gives Birth
Drama unraveled at the hospital as none could believe that the girl was nine years old or the fact that she had given birth to a bouncing baby boy. News…
The Untold Stories: The Oppressed turns into Oppressor.
In this article I will start with two quotations, one from the famous Dictator Adolf Hitler and from the Bible respectively. “Our teachers were absolute tyrants. They had no sympathy…
The Untold stories: “Amnesty Warns Ethiopia, Rwanda Not to Trade Rights for Growth†by Gabe Joselow VOA
In the series of untold stories I will expose and display in the light how autocratic regimes operate unhindered as long as their international backers feel secure both economically and…
Congo: The hunt for Bosco – Kabila turns on his friends
By William Townsend As the rumour mill turns and suspicion runs rife, conflict is unfolding in eastern Congo’s Kivu provinces once again, following three years of relative calm. The most…
DR Congo: Bosco Ntaganda Recruits Children by Force Urgently Arrest Renegade General Wanted by International Criminal Court
(Goma, May 16, 2012) – Gen. Bosco Ntaganda, who mutinied against the Democratic Republic of Congo in early April 2012, has forcibly recruited at least 149 boys and young men…