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The South African former Deputy President, Mr. Jacob Zuma is set to face trial over corruption charges though his lawyers are seeking to have the case withdrawn. At the same time state prosecutors are expected to file a plea for postponement until...
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As the Democratic Republic of Congo votes today for its first multi-party elections in 40 years, security has been tightened. The elections, aimed at ending a long civil war, have 32 candidates including incumbent President Joseph Kabila in the fray...
Two babies and two policemen were killed the run-up to the presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo Mr. Jean Pierre Bemba, a candidate returned to the capital, Kinshasa. Clashes broke out in Kinshasa on Thursday after a camp for Mr....
A cross-party committee of peers has urged Prime Minister Tony Blair to scrap the government’s right to go to war without first seeking a vote in Parliament. The committee said the vote in Parliament on the Iraq war in 2003 created a new...
The White House has drafted a legislation covering trials of terror detainees, allowing hearsay evidence. It would however exclude defendants from trials to protect national security, The New York Times has reported.
The Times said the draft was being...
US President George Bush urged Mr. Minni Minnawi, leader of the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA), the main rebel group in western Sudan’s Darfur region to work towards building support in the region. Mr. Bush also told Mr. Minnawi, during their...
Israel killed seven Palestinians including a three-year-old girl in the northern Gaza strip today ion two separate attacks. Though Palestinian medicos had earlier said that an Israel tank shell killed the seven, but later modified their statement,...
Congo opposition protesters rampaged down the main highway into Kinshasa today demanding postponement of the historic multi-party elections in 40 years in the country scheduled for Sunday. The several hundred demonstrators who want the elections to be...
The Ugandan Government has sought the help of the Lord Resistance Army (LRA) leader Mr. Joseph Kony’s mother to persuade her rebel son to return to the negotiating table in an effort to end the 20-year-long rebellion which has killed or maimed...
The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said abuse, torture and humiliation of Iraqi prisoners by US forces was routine and authorized. This continued even after the Abu Ghraib scandal came to light, it added.
A Pentagon spokesman refuted these...
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