[President Kagame to light flame in memory of victims of 1994 massacres amid fresh diplomatic row with France. A torch commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide in which 800,000 died is to be lighted in the capital Kigali, amid renewed claims of France being complicit in the killings. A flame of remembrance touring…
[WASHINGTON — President Obama is sending more troops and military aircraft to Uganda as part of a long-running effort to hunt down Joseph Kony, the fugitive rebel commander who is believed to have been hiding in the jungles of central Africa for years, a Defense Department official said on Sunday. The president is sending several…
[Au moins cinq militaires ont été tués et dix autres blessés dans l’explosion d’une voiture piégée près d’une académie militaire à Benghazi, dans l’est libyen, a-t-on appris de sources militaire et hospitalière. Selon le Centre médical de Benghazi, «cinq cadavres sont arrivés à l’hôpital, ainsi qu’un nombre indéterminé de restes humains, et plus de dix…
[Government says there have been sustained and organised efforts to kill some of the Rwandan refugees living in South Africa.”It is clear that these incidents directly link to tensions emanating from Rwanda and are acted upon within our borders,” said spokesperson for the Department of International Relations and Cooperation Clayson Monyela on Saturday. In June…
[The head of a United Nations inquiry said on Monday it was seeking to establish who should face prosecution for killings and other crimes in Central African Republic in order to halt for good bloodshed that has raised fears of genocide. Thousands have been killed since the Seleka, a coalition of mostly Muslim northern rebels,…
[Pretoria, South Africa (CNN) — Oscar Pistorius’s hard-hitting defense lawyers will try Monday to rattle one of the most unflappable witnesses to testify so far against the track star accused of murdering his girlfriend, cover girl Reeva Steenkamp. A security guard at the estate where Pistorius lived — and Steenkamp died — produced some of…
[INSTABILITÉ – En Egypte, le gouvernement a démissionné, laissant le champ quasi-libre au maréchal al-Sissi pour la présidentielle. L’INFO. Le gouvernement égyptien soutenu par l’armée a démissionné, annonce lundi le quotidien officiel Al Ahram sur son site internet. L’information a ensuite été confirmée de source officielle.La décision a été prise à l’issue d’un conseil des…
[(CNN) — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is expected to sign a bill Monday that criminalizes homosexuality, a government spokeswoman told CNN. The signing is expected to take place at 3 a.m. ET. Museveni has gone back and forth about the controversial bill. Last month, Museveni said he wouldn’t sign the bill, describing homosexuals as “sick”…
[AT least 21 South African miners trapped by debris in an abandoned shaft and later rescued face charges of illegal mining, authorities say. Ten miners emerged from the mine shaft near Johannesburg on Monday, one day after emergency workers rescued a group of 11, the South African Press Association reported. The men were in good…
[Thousands of civil society activists, including Amnesty International supporters in the UK, Canada, Spain and Germany are acting together today in solidarity with campaigners in Uganda to show their opposition to Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill and call on President Museveni to veto it. “If this deeply discriminatory bill is passed it will legalize the persecution of…
