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- Thursday, July 31 24 Jul 2008 00:36 GMT
... Thatcher's resistance to stiff sanctions against South Africa. 1988 - Pier jammed with thousands of festival travelers collapses ... African leaders agree to impose sanctions on Burundi for the July 25 military coup that ousted the country's fragile coalition ...
- Modern war crimes are increasingly being tried 24 Jul 2008 00:27 GMT
... is on trial. A vice president of Congo is in custody. The current president of ... from the former Yugoslavia and Hutus from Rwanda, have been convicted. In the process, the ... step." Politics are also at work in Africa. Leaders on the continent barely criticized the killings ...
- Poll: 87% of French Public Supports Military 23 Jul 2008 15:51 GMT
... 88 percent approval, while 77 percent believed military operations undertaken by the European Union contributed ... theaters, including Kosovo, Bosnia, Lebanon, Chad, the Central African Republic, Afghanistan and the Ivory Coast, garnered the ...
- Zimbabwe: Isn't Africa Facing a New Cold War With Tsvangirai As Savimbi? 23 Jul 2008 13:32 GMT
... Cold War in to be in fought Africa, with Morgan Tsvangirai as Jonas Savimbi, reincarnated. The last ... the Democratic Republic (Zaire), Ivory Cost, Chad, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Sudan and Uganda are fighting ... also the genocide committed by Belgians in Congo in the last centaury, and the slave ...
- ICC Must Not Have Double Standards 23 Jul 2008 10:31 GMT
... without a UN resolution to back their military action on a sovereign state. People died ... from being used as a re-colonisation tool. African leaders should join hands to solve the ... in the DRC, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and massacres in northern Uganda. The Security Council has ...
- Sudan: ICC Must Not Have Double Standards [opinion] 23 Jul 2008 10:19 GMT
... without a UN resolution to back their military action on a sovereign state. People died ... from being used as a re-colonisation tool. African leaders should join hands to solve the ... in the DRC, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and massacres in northern Uganda. The Security Council has ...
- » Tsvangirai: Is he the man for the job? 23 Jul 2008 10:15 GMT
... the 'Anyone But' trap is one which Africa has fallen into far too often. Ugandans cheered ... Sese Seko pillaged Zaire (now the DR Congo) for 32 years after deposing Joseph Kasa-Vubu ... Juvenal Habyariana, Jean Kambanda presided over the Rwandan genocide. So, does this mean that Tsvangirai ...
- » Right man for the job? 23 Jul 2008 09:30 GMT
... the 'Anyone But' trap is one which Africa has fallen into far too often. Ugandans cheered ... Sese Seko pillaged Zaire (now the DR Congo) for 32 years after deposing Joseph Kasa-Vubu ... Juvenal Habyariana, Jean Kambanda presided over the Rwandan genocide. So, does this mean that Tsvangirai ...
- Big-name arrests put spotlight on war crimes courts 23 Jul 2008 09:05 GMT
... is on trial. A vice president of Congo is in custody. The former leaders of ... from the former Yugoslavia and Hutus from Rwanda, have been convicted. In the process, the ... Charles Taylor for his role in West Africa's upheavals. The threat of prosecution also is ...
- ICC: Is Africa a Cold War Battleground? 23 Jul 2008 06:35 GMT
... new Cold War to be fought in Africa. The last Cold War saw the savage murder or ... come. Algeria, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Chad, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Sudan and Uganda are fighting ...
- Fugitive Serbian war-crimes suspect was disguised, but hardly in hiding 23 Jul 2008 06:30 GMT
... is on trial. A vice president of Congo is in custody. The former leaders of ... from the former Yugoslavia and Hutus from Rwanda, have been convicted. In the process, the ... Charles Taylor for his role in West Africa's upheavals. The threat of prosecution also is ...
- Right man for the job? 23 Jul 2008 06:11 GMT
... the 'Anyone But' trap is one which Africa has fallen into far too often. Ugandans cheered ... Sese Seko pillaged Zaire (now the DR Congo) for 32 years after deposing Joseph Kasa-Vubu ... Juvenal Habyariana, Jean Kambanda presided over the Rwandan genocide. So, does this mean that Tsvangirai ...
- Zimbabwe: Country is a Small Issue; Why Won't Bush Just Invade It? 23 Jul 2008 05:34 GMT
... did to them in captivity. What about African governments and our African Union? If they really ... interest to us. See what happened in Congo. Uganda took troops there because of Allied ... there because of Allied Democratic Front rebels, Rwanda deployed its soldiers because genocidaires were regrouping. ...
- Karadzic a Big Win for Hague Cops 23 Jul 2008 05:24 GMT
... in handcuffs, decked out in his camouflage military attire or in one of his trademark ... trials at the ad hoc tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, and the delays to the start ... than by generic international pressure. It was African leaders like Thabo Mbeki and Olesegun Obasanjo ...
- 'I will be fit for Olympics' insists boxer 23 Jul 2008 04:55 GMT
... soft-spoken army man is currently nursing a jaw injury sustained during the East and Central Africa Military games in Uganda. Abaka is a major doubt ahead of the Olympics despite resuming ...
- Mugabe's secret Aussie flights exposed 23 Jul 2008 04:52 GMT
... has been steadily spreading its influence in central Africa in a bid to gain access to ... has built a massive diplomatic complex in Rwanda's capital of Kigali and provides the Mugabe ...
- Nigeria: Tension over Bakassi Peninsula 23 Jul 2008 04:52 GMT
... handover of the disputed Bakassi Peninsula to Cameroon, but the ICJ-mandated move may not be the end ... tension has mounted between the two West African nations over the long-disputed, 1,000 km sq ... issue where officials of the political and military establishment criticized the handover deal. Nigeria's Minister ...
- East Africa: African Officials Pledge to Keep Virunga Parks Secure 23 Jul 2008 04:51 GMT
... Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have pledged to protect wildlife preserves ... through the U.S. Agency for International Development's Central African Regional Program for the Environment and the Congo ...
- USA arms war-torn Africa under the guise of humanitarian aid 23 Jul 2008 04:50 GMT
... the funds assigned as humanitarian aid to Africa ten years ago. Nowadays, the Pentagon is in ... proved on the example of Liberia and Congo that the US administration had been running out-of-balance policies on ... various programs has been reduced, whereas the military aid has been increased. “The headline is ...
- Reclaiming Africa: What Must Africans Do? 23 Jul 2008 03:12 GMT
... an ongoing debate within the halls of African Studies. With Africanists, the debate mostly centers ... and other forms of assistance. For instance, Rwanda, . The same can be said of , and a ... sharks. In virtually every African country, the military (navy, air force and army and paramilitary) ...
- Wednesday, July 30 23 Jul 2008 02:50 GMT
... at busy shopping plaza outside Johannesburg, South Africa, injuring dozens of people. 1989 - Poland's government ... Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwandan President Paul Kagame sign a peace agreement ...
- Karadzic arrest highlights successes, shortcomings of international justice 23 Jul 2008 00:56 GMT
... is on trial. A vice president of Congo is in custody. The current president of ... from the former Yugoslavia and Hutus from Rwanda, have been convicted. In the process, the ... step. Politics are also at work in Africa. Leaders on the continent barely criticized the killings ...
- War criminals still at large... 22 Jul 2008 23:54 GMT
... issued an arrest warrant in 2006 for Congolese warlord Ntaganda. As a leader in the ... militia that allegedly committed atrocities in the Central African Republic in 2002-03. ...
- The concept of international justice will be on trial, too 22 Jul 2008 23:53 GMT
... of many Britons to colonial peoples in Africa and Asia. After the fall of Tito's communism, ... political and diplomatic, to hold political and military leaders accountable for crimes against humanity." The ... to have complicated peace negotiations in Zimbabwe, Congo, Uganda and Sudan. Leaders are reluctant to step down ...
- Arrest puts spotlight on new tribunals 22 Jul 2008 21:49 GMT
... is on trial. A vice president of Congo is in custody. The former leaders of ... from the former Yugoslavia and Hutus from Rwanda, have been convicted. In the process, the ... Charles Taylor for his role in West Africa's upheavals. The threat of prosecution also is ...
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