Al-Bashir launches new regional authority for Darfur

guardiannewsngr Thursday, February 9, 2012 1:52:00 AM CET | info

PRESIDENT Omar al-Bashir of Sudan has launched Darfur Regional Authority, a governing body to oversee a peace agreement intended to end the war in the western region of Darfur. The deal was reached last year, but signed by only one of Darfur’s weaker rebel movements....

De Waal: Contest over peace, security in Africa (1)

guardiannewsngr Thursday, February 9, 2012 1:07:00 AM CET | info

THE dominant interventionist approach to peace and security in Africa surpasses the hard work of creating domestic political consensus and instead imposes models of government favoured by western powers. The emergent African methodology offers a chance to develop locally rooted solutions too often sidelined....

Soyinka, others seek action on graft, cancer

guardiannewsngr Thursday, February 9, 2012 1:07:00 AM CET | info

How I stopped smoking, by Nobel laureate FOR Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka, corruption in the country is like a cancerous tumour that must be rooted out for the nation and its citizens to enjoy wholesome living. And for Lagos State Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, if the Federal Government.......

FG to construct 10 cancer centres this year

vanguardngr Thursday, February 9, 2012 12:57:00 AM CET | info

THE Federal Government, yesterday, said it would construct 10 new cancer centres across the country in 2012, a measure to stem the high rate of the disease in the country....

Suggestions for Zuma flood Facebook

iol Wednesday, February 8, 2012 2:26:00 PM CET | info

The presidency's Facebook page has been filled suggestions for President Jacob Zuma's to-do list for the next year....

Suggestions for Zuma's state of the nation fill his Facebook page

thetimes-za Wednesday, February 8, 2012 1:26:00 PM CET | info

Pleas for water and advice on why to study if there are no jobs, and politely written notes of anguish from remote towns around the country, filled the presidency's facebook page ahead of the state of the nation address on Thursday....

Observers slam Khmer Rouge jailer’s life term

iol Tuesday, February 7, 2012 9:48:00 AM CET | info

A life term handed to Khmer Rouge jailer “violates the torture chief's human rights and serves public opinion rather than justice”....

South Sudan's Kiir unleashes barrage of attacks against Bashir

sudantribune Tuesday, February 7, 2012 7:58:00 AM CET | info

February 6, 2012 (JUBA) – The president of South Sudan Salva Kiir on Monday launched a fierce attack on his Sudanese counterpart Omer Hassan al-Bashir calling him a “thief” and urged him to surrender himself to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Addressing members of the Sudan People Liberation.......

Syria pounds protest hubs as nearly 50 killed

DailyNation Tuesday, February 7, 2012 3:31:00 AM CET | info

Syrian forces rained rockets and shells on protest hubs on Monday killing at least 46 civilians, activists said, as Washington closed its Damascus embassy...

Smiling Breivik defends attacks

iol Monday, February 6, 2012 10:10:00 PM CET | info

Anders Behring Breivik provoked tears and laughter in a Norway court as he defended his rampage....

Rwanda petitions AU, UN over indictments

EastAfrican Monday, February 6, 2012 3:44:00 AM CET | info

Although the French indictments now lie in a shambles they have not been officially withdrawn...

‘Cold War logic continues in UN’

iol Sunday, February 5, 2012 10:16:00 PM CET | info

Russia and China have vetoed a UN move that would have backed an Arab plan urging Syria’s Bashar al-Assad to go....

Anger after Russia-China veto

iol Sunday, February 5, 2012 3:39:00 PM CET | info

Western and Arab countries responded with outrage after Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Syria....

Syria: UN veto gives Assad licence to kill - opposition

myjoyonline Sunday, February 5, 2012 1:04:00 PM CET | info

Russia and China have handed Syria's government a "licence to kill", say opposition activists, after the two countries vetoed a UN resolution....

Paper in Cele's sights

thetimes-za Friday, February 3, 2012 1:16:00 AM CET | info

Instructions to police to "aim for the head" in their fight against criminals did not necessarily mean to kill....

Rwandan genocide mastermind in court today

EastAfrican Thursday, February 2, 2012 10:49:00 PM CET | info

Leon Mugesera, a Rwandan national who was deported from Canada after 16 years is set to appear at a Kigali court Tuesday...

Mugesera trial delayed to allow him time to find lawyers

EastAfrican Thursday, February 2, 2012 10:49:00 PM CET | info

It will take two or more months before the trial of deported Rwandan genocide fugitive Léon Mugesera starts....

BANGLADESH: Coup Bid Reveals Extremism Within the Army

ipsnews Thursday, February 2, 2012 2:30:00 PM CET | info

Bangladesh's army has won paludits as leading United Nations peacekeepers, but the January coup attempt against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government has exposed lurking religious extremism within its ranks....

UNAMID chief told to avoid unnecessary contact with Bashir, Khartoum again criticizes mission

sudantribune Thursday, February 2, 2012 10:04:00 AM CET | info

February 1, 2012 (WASHINGTON) – The United Nations on Wednesday disclosed that it asked the head of the Darfur Peacekeeping mission (UNAMID) Ibrahim Gambari to avoid repeating unnecessary encounters with the Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir. Last Friday, the New York-based Human Rights watch.......

President Mills Has Let Us Down

ghanaweb Thursday, February 2, 2012 6:39:00 AM CET | info

Why are Barton Odro and Alex Segbefia still at post? The president’s failure to fire them after the unraveling of the “genocide” that has rocked the country by Mr. Alfred Woyome and his collaborators from the National Democratic Congress government clearly shows that he is at his lowest in fighting corruption in the country....

Appeal verdict for jailed Rwandan journalists Feb 17

DailyNation Thursday, February 2, 2012 3:46:00 AM CET | info

Rwanda's supreme court will announce its verdict on February 17 in the appeal of journalists Agnes Uwimana Nkusi and Saidati Mukakibibi...

Two Journalists accused of defaming Kagame

EastAfrican Thursday, February 2, 2012 3:12:00 AM CET | info

The ruling of the case against two female journalists accused of publishing information to ignite public disorder and creating ethnic divisions was on Tuesday deferred to February 17....

Darfur envoy cautioned on Bashir

iol Thursday, February 2, 2012 12:00:00 AM CET | info

The United Nations has told its top official in Darfur to avoid encounters like one in January when he met controversial Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir at a wedding....

Rwanda genocide: ICTR seeks refuge for acquitted

myjoyonline Wednesday, February 1, 2012 10:28:00 AM CET | info

The court trying Rwandan genocide suspects is appealing for countries to give refuge for those acquitted, the UN tribunal's spokesman has told the BBC....

UGANDA: Using Community Radio to Heal After Kony's War

ipsnews Wednesday, February 1, 2012 8:20:00 AM CET | info

Radio Mega FM's transmission tower rises from the centre of Gulu town, transmitting talk shows and the latest Ugandan radio hits to listeners across the district. But it also serves as something of an informal memorial to community radio-driven peace efforts during the Lord's Resistance Army's destruction of northern Uganda....

AU may ask ICJ for opinion on Bashir's immunity from ICC prosecution

sudantribune Wednesday, February 1, 2012 8:15:00 AM CET | info

January 31, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The leaders at the African Union (AU) summit in Addis Ababa asked the chairperson of the pan-African body to consider moving the case of Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for an opinion....

In South Sudan, old feuds test a new state

sudantribune Wednesday, February 1, 2012 5:13:00 AM CET | info

By Hilde F. Johnson January 29, 2012 — An escalation of intercommunal violence has tested theresolve of South Sudan, the world's newest country, and that of the UnitedNations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, UNMISS. Extensive patrols by UNMISS over the past three weeks havenot found the “trail.......

Jailed Rwandan journos’ appeal verdict in February

iol Tuesday, January 31, 2012 6:42:00 PM CET | info

Agnes Uwimana Nkusi and Saidati Mukakibibi who will hear their appeal verdicts next month....