clement rohee is following hot on the heels of ranald gajraj, a former minister of home affairs and criminal. nice job clement, keep up the good work
Zimbabwe’s principal political protagonists, Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, have signed an agreement which establishes a framework for substantive negotiations to end the country’s political crisis.
South African foreign affairs spokesman, Ronnie Mamoepa, confirmed this in a statement issued from Harare Monday.
Vice President Goodluck Jonathan announced after a Niger Delta stakeholders meeting at the State House late on Wednesday night that “basically, what we have agreed today is that if there are problems in the Niger Delta, what are these problems, what caused these problems, what is the way forward, the challenges, the issues? So we have agreed that a committee would be set up to raise these issues and then the issues would be presented to the President. Then the journey starts from there. The committee will raise the fundamental issues, what we believe are the challenges and present it to the Federal Government and make recommendations on the way forward. So when the document is presented to the President, we will look at it and then move from there.”
Kaieteur News: Edwin Niles, the prisoner who was allegedly beaten after being found with seven rounds of .22 ammunition, died at the Georgetown Hospital at around 23:00 hrs last night.
Niles’ mother, Brenda Nurse, told Kaieteur News that a hospital staffer contacted her daughter last night and requested that she come to the hospital urgently.
Livinguyana: The two biggest selling and most internationally recognizable artistes out of Guyana have been shut out of Carifiasco.
afrol News, 9 July – Rwandan fugitive, Callixte Mbarishimana has been arrested by Interpol while trying to leave Frankfurt to St Petersberg on Monday.
Barely 44 hours after vowing he would rather die than resign, Finance minister Amos Kimunya finally bowed to pressure and stepped aside Tuesday to allow for investigations into the controversial sale of the Grand Regency Hotel.
Mr Kimunya said he made the decision after consulting President Kibaki, his own family and colleagues.
Mugabe’s only woe is that, so far, he is the only one who is taking the liberation struggle of the African people from a political realm to an economic realm! This is a no go area and it is tickling the bile of the British. The land issue is very thorny but the former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, knows the truth.
Mugabe had negotiated with John Major, another former British PM. Major was warm towards compensating the British landowners for the land to be given back to the blacks but Blair called off the deal. This irked Mugabe, and what followed is now history.
Out-of-court settlement talks between pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and the Kano State government broke down at the weekend after the government and representatives of victims’ families turned down an offer of $10 million compensation from the company.
This was disclosed to newsmen yesterday by chairman of the victims’ association, Alhaji Mustapha Maisikeli shortly after a Kano High Court presided over by the acting Chief Judge, Justice Shehu Atiku, adjourned the case to October 6 and 7.
Democracy Now! In Somalia, the head of the country’s UN Development Program was shot dead on Sunday. It was the latest fatality in a string of attacks on aid workers. Osman Ali Ahmed was shot at close range as he left a mosque in southern Mogadishu. His son was also injured in the shooting.
turns out that the Betancourt rescue was a fraud afterall
NZZ Online: Die kolumbianische Politikerin Ingrid Betancourt und 14 weitere Geiseln der FARC-Rebellen sollen gemäss einem Bericht des Westschweizer Radios RSR freigekauft worden sein. Die spektakuläre Befreiung vom Mittwoch sei inszeniert gewesen. Experten sind skeptisch und verweisen auf Verschleierungsmanöver.
(sda) Die kolumbianischen FARC-Rebellen hätten rund 20 Millionen Dollar für die Geiseln bekommen, die vor knapp zwei Tagen im Südosten von Kolumbien freikamen, berichtete RSR am Freitag unter Berufung auf eine ungenannte
information is sketchy but it seems as if ingrid betancourt was ‘freed’
El Tiempo :: En rueda de prensa, el ministro de Defensa, Juan Manuel Santos, informó que las Fuerzas Militares acaban de rescatar a Íngrid Betancourt y los tres norteamericanos y 11 miembros de la fuerza pública que se encontraban en poder de las Farc desde hace más de seis años.
By MIKE CORDER, Associated Press Writer
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Judges at the International Criminal Court on Wednesday ordered the release of the first suspect the tribunal took into custody, saying he cannot get a fair trial because prosecutors are withholding evidence in his case.Former Congolese militia leader Thomas Lubanga’s trial at the world’s first permanent war crimes tribunal was suspended before it began last month after the prosecution refused to release documents it received from the United Nations that could help clear Lubanga. Read more…
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