20100801
reuters

BURNT FOREST Kenya (Reuters) - Naomi Kamau, her three children and another woman faced a group of screaming armed men wielding machetes within minutes of President Mwai Kibaki being declared winner of a disputed 2007 election.

20100801
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Talks have stalled between Sudan's rival northern and southern halves over the disputed oil-producing Abyei region and could re-ignite a conflict which claimed millions of lives, the region's leader said on Sunday.

20100801
reuters

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe lashed out at Western powers on Sunday over sanctions imposed on his ZANU-PF party, saying the European Union and United States were simply bent on driving him out of power.

20100731
reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A global fund to boost agricultural investment in the world's poor countries will release about $120 million in October to states who qualify, a senior U.S. Treasury said on Friday.

20100731
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan said on Saturday it would monitor travel by U.N./African Union peacekeepers in Darfur -- a day after the U.N. Security Council extended the force's mandate and told Khartoum to stop hindering its work.

20100731
reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council extended the stay of peacekeepers in Sudan's western Darfur region by another year on Friday, telling the force to focus primarily on protecting civilians and aid deliveries.

20100801
RFI

The 1995 Constitution recognises 65 indigenous communities in Uganda as at February 1, 1926. This implies that Uganda as we know it today has been built using tribes (nationalities) as the building blocks. It is in this context that we should study the recently reported Gulu University authority's ban on tribal associations, 48 in number, at the campus.

20100801
allAfrica

Fifty years ago, the former Belgian Congo received its independence under the democratically elected government of former prime minister Patrice Lumumba. Less than seven months later, Lumumba and two colleagues were, in the contemporary idiom, "rendered" to their Belgian-backed secessionist enemies, who tortured them before putting them before a firing squad. The Congo would not hold another democratic election for 46 years. In 2002, following an extensive parliamentary inquiry, the Belgian government assumed a portion of responsibility for Lumumba's murder.

20100731
Garowe Online

Somali pirates on the early morning hours of Thursday released the Maltese flagged merchant vessel MV FRIGIA that they were holding for the past four months, Radio Garowe reports.

20100731
Garowe Online

embers of Parliament of Puntland's semi-autonomous region of Somalia dismissed three of their Mps after the government accused them of supporting rebel militias and going against the law, Radio Garowe reports.

20100731
RFI

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki's push for an endorsement of a new constitution has received a major boost this weekend. Prime Minister Raila Odinga hit the campaign trail again after a month out because of health problems.

20100731
RFI

In Tanzania, the offshore archipelago of Zanzibar held a referendum Saturday which is likely to mean that a coalition government is formed.

20100731
Nation

Nairobi — A cell phone suspected to have been left behind by the people who masterminded the Kampala blasts led detectives to the three Kenyans arraigned in court on Friday.

20100731
RFI

Three Kenyans have been charged with the bomb attacks that killed 79 people watching the football World Cup final on television in the Ugandan capital, Kampala.

20100729
allafrica

Abuja — The Senate yesterday passed the conference report of the Electoral Act (INEC) 2006 (Repeal and Re-enactment) Bill 2010.

20100730
allafrica

Abuja — The International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) has directed the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to furnish it with information on Senator Ahmed Yerima's alleged marriage to a minor.

20100730
allafrica

Kampala — Toxic algae has been found on Lake Victoria, a senior government official said yesterday.

20100730
allafrica

When Deputy House Speaker Tokpa Mulbah allegedly ordered the brutal flogging of police patrolman Lexington Beh late last month, darted into the sanctuary of his mansion with police in tow, got the spontaneous help of CDC officials and foot-soldiers to help him escape arrest, and claimed to be politically victimized by the Sirleaf Administration, it was all politics – Liberian style. And the day went to the swift. However melodramatic and revealing that police-deputy speaker encounter was, it did very little to shield and give the deputy speaker the carte blanche immunity he and his supporters assumed he has or should have. The deputy speaker came to that grim reality this week, when only the agility of his lawyers stood between him and an arrest order on criminal charges. The Analyst, reports.

20100730
allafrica

Nairobi — At a church compound in Nairobi's Mathare slum, women and their children line up for food rations. Among them is Zipporah Mueni, an HIV-positive mother of five.

20100730
allafrica

Nairobi — Sixty eight per cent of Kenyans will vote for the proposed Constitution, according to a survey released just five days to the referendum.