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. Intelligence sources in Uganda said an unexploded bomb left behind by the terrorists at a night spot in Makindye division helped them to piece together evidence that [...]
APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) At least 20 people died and several were injured on Saturday in a tragic road accident in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. The incident occurred when a truck with a 6-tonne container over-turned in an open market in the western part of Addis Ababa, hitting several traders and vendors at the market. [...]
UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) disclosed on Monday that the previous week flooding led to the displacement of 3150 people, two deaths and loss of household assets in parts of Amhara, Oromia and Tigray, according to the Reporter. In Oromia region, floods in mid-July displaced 400 households (2,500 people), according to an [...]
RHINEBECK, N.Y. — We’re here in Rhinebeck (who isn’t?), where Chelsea Clinton’s wedding is to take place at 6 p.m. tonight. No details of the wedding itself have leaked, yet, nor have we seen the bride. But we have seen the father of the bride, twice, and the mother of the bride once. They gave [...]
Violent confrontations between anti and pro Darfur peace talks Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in south Darfur’s biggest displacement camp, Kalma, have led thousands of refugees to flee the camp and seek refuge around the premises of the UN-AU Hybrid Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), according to a statement released by the mission. Clashes between IDPs [...]
Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Al-Bashir would be arrested if he ever visits South Africa, the country’s ruling African National Congress party (ANC), said on Tuesday. Bashir became the first head of state to be indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity in March last year for his government’s [...]
New Patriotic Party (NPP) members in parliament (MPs), who have endorsed Nana Addo, have cautioned their critics to refrain from acts of deceit, blatant lies, and plain insults. It is sad that some people, who should know better, are going round saying that MPs who are supporting Nana Addo are non-performing MPs who want to [...]
The crisis rocking the family of the late Senate President, Evan(s) Enwerem took another turn yesterday as a Federal High Court in Lagos sentenced two of his sons, Miguel and Richard, to two months imprisonment for contempt. It will be recalled that the court presided over by Justice Mojisola Olatoregun-Ishola had in July last year [...]
The Nigerian Army said yesterday that it turned down many pressures from some quarters to interrupt the current democracy because of its firm belief in the sustenance of democracy. General Officer Commanding, 2 division, Nigerian Army, Maj. Gen. Lawrence Ugubane spoke in Ibadan at the weekend through his representative Lt. Col Andrew Idachaba during the [...]
Why South South Govs met in Secret, The reelection deal with South South Govs, S/East, S/West PDP to endorse Jonathan THE reason why President Goodluck Jonathan has refused to make public his ambition to contest the 2011 presidential election, despite suffocating pressure on him to do so, in the past two months, is that he [...]
