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Kenya CIC to challenge MPs pay demand in court
Justin Muturi insisted MPs will be paid their "previous salaries" of Sh851,000 by the Parliamentary Service Commission and not the Sh532,000 set by SRC. CIC ...
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Ghana holy water stampede kills 4
An unexpectedly large crowd overwhelmed police in Ghana on Sunday when thousands showed up at TB Joshua's church for holy water, creating a stampede that killed four ...
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Australia ancient African coins suggest continent was ‘discovered’ earlier than 1606
An Australian anthropologist plans to lead an expedition to the Wessel Islands off the coast of northern Australia in July to excavate a site where ...
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Rebels army in fresh clashes in DR Congo
Rebels from the M23 movement and the army fought Monday just north of Goma, a regional capital in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, which the rebels occupied briefly last November, both sides said.The fighting was the first involving M23 since December and erupted just two days before UN chief Ban Ki-moon was due to visit the region, including Goma, the capital of North Kivu province.An ...
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Refugee Crisis Brewing In South Sudan
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN — It was early evening in South Sudan, and my colleagues and I had made our way to the compound of a Member of Parliament in the country's troubled Jonglei state. We were there to meet with several people who had sought refuge from violence in the town of Pibor. People like Mary, who had arrived with five members of her family in tow. The stories that Mary told us ...
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Arms no use in port dispute Somalia
How the fate of Jubaland and its port city Kismayu is resolved will be a litmus test for Somalia as it rebuilds from the ruins of war and cements a fragile peace, a quest hampered by the central government's weakness outside ...
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Airline makes bungladesh of African destination
Two United States holidaymakers found themselves a long way from their intended destination after an airline confused two airport codes. Sandy Valdiviseo and her husband, Triet Vo, wanted to fly from Los Angeles to Dakar in Senegal with Turkish Airlines. Instead they ended up almost 11,000km away in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, after the airport codes were mixed up, the Los Angeles Times ...
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Kenya Isiolos Waata Community Objects to Jobs Lockout
Waata communities in Isiolo yesterday raised concern that they have been locked out of all elective positions and county appointments in the area. Speaking during the National Commission on Gender and Equality forum in Garba-Tulla at the weekend, the residents appealed to the government to intervene and have them secure positions. Community chairman Galgalo Titima told the commission that ...
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DR Congos Silent Ordeal
According to the diocesan report, this was the third such massacre in a month. Both reports implicate the FDLR militia group-Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda, ideological descendants of the Interahamwe militias responsible for the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda. The FDLR is one of several domestic, foreign or foreign-backed armed groups threatening to tear the country apart. ...
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Rwanda fends off DRC accusations
Paul Kagame said accusations that his government was backing militancy in neighboring DRC were off the mark. March 23 Movement members in seized eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo last year. Rwanda and Uganda are suspected of backing some DRC rebels as a way to fight Hutu rebels who fled in the wake of the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi minority population. Kagame, a Tutsi, told the ...
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Pakistans Musharraf Granted Bail in Bhutto Murder Case
A Pakistani court has granted bail to former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in a case related to the murder of former prime minister Benazir ...
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Burmese Presidents White House Visit a Reward for Reforms
President Barack Obama's invitation to his Burmese counterpart to meet at the White House marks a rapid diplomatic boost for Thein Sein, whom the United States removed from a blacklist of foreign officials denied entry to the country only last year. Mr. Obama also rewarded Burma's reform efforts by making the first visit to that nation by a sitting U.S. president last ...
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More Regional Troops Going to Central African Republic
An armored vehicle of of the Congolese army, part of the Central African Multinational Force is parked in front of a bank in central Bangui on April 3, ...
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Global Water is Under Threat
Scientists say a new geologic epoch has begun whereby humans are causing major damage to global water systems. They warn of a planetary transformation comparable to the retreat of the glaciers more than 11-thousand years ago. Scientists are meeting in Bonn, Germany this week (5/21-24) to discuss what can be done about it. to De Capua report on Anthropocene epoch While some still ...
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Bundesbank Chief Says France Must Take Deficit Cuts Seriously
Germany's federal reserve Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann stands beside the door of a giant safe as he poses for a photograph at the money museum next to the Bundesbank headquarters, in Frankfurt, Germany, May 17, ...
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Mandelas name pulled into South African politics
Nelson Mandela smiles during a lunch to Benefit the Mandela Children's Foundation as part of the celebrations of the opening of the new One&Only Cape Town resort on April 3, 2009 in Cape Town, South Africa. (Chris Jackson, Getty ...
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In Mozambique Ban calls for push to achieve Millennium Development Goals
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks at a Roundtable event on ';The Future we Want – MDG’s Post 2015 and Agenda 2025'; at Joaquim Chissano Conference Center, Maputo, Mozambique. UN Photo/Eskinder ...
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Algeria censors newspapers for president in a coma reports
ALGIERS // An editor has accused Algeria's government of censorship after it blocked the publication of his two newspapers. Hicham Aboud, the editor of the My Journal and Djaridati newspapers, said that the publications were censored after he rejected an order from the communication ministry on Saturday night. They had told him to remove an article claiming Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the ...
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Militiamen attack gas complex in western Libya
TRIPOLI, Libya -; A Libyan gas company official says militiamen have attacked a natural gas complex in the country's west, injuring two guards and stealing weapons and military ...
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Cosco to Boost Asia-South Africa Trade in Mid-June
will increase rates for all shipments, including refrigerated cargo, on its trade from the Far East to South Africa, starting June 17.The hike will be $300 per 20-foot container and $600 per 40-foot and 40-foot high-cube container, according to the ...
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Kenya Lobbies Mahama Over Somalia
Prez Mahama and Kenyan envoy President John Dramani Mahama has accepted a request from Kenya tochampion their cause for an expansion of Amisom troops at this week’s African Union (AU) Summit, noting that peace and security remain vital to the growth of the continent. Kenya’s Deputy President, William arap Ruto, in a discussion with President Mahama in Accra on Sunday, said that his ...
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No Friendly For Ghana…Before World Cup Qualifiers In June
Ghana black stars players Ghana have ruled out playing any friendly match before next month's World Cup qualifiers against Sudan and Lesotho. The Black Stars will be preparing for two crucial World Cup qualifiers which could determine whether they will reach the final phase of the qualifiers. They had previously arranged a friendly against Kenya but pulled out of the game citing the late ...
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Chad Johnson back in custody
Johnson received a year of probation last September after pleading no contest to a domestic violence charge involving his former wife, reality TV star Evelyn ...
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“Nigeria Will Become History …” Nigeria Is Already History By Bayo Oluwasanmi
During the briefings, he threatened fire and brimstone if he was arrested for the threats he made regarding the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, "Nigeria will become history." As we watch helplessly the slow but steady destruction of Nigeria, those who refused to listen to the words of truth will expedite its final fall. It is a case of terrible blindness and ...
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UPDATE 1-Libyas ports reopen after protests gas complex attacked
Mon May 20, 2013 12:32pm EDT (Adds Eni quote, detail) TRIPOLI May 20 (Reuters) - Libya's oil terminals at Tobruk and Zueitina re-opened over the weekend after protests forced both ports to shut, Libya's deputy oil minister Omar Shakmak said. However, fresh trouble arose at Libya's gas-exporting Mellitah complex, he added, where guards were again attacked overnight after clashes in ...
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