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  • Sudan’s president bashir charged with genocide, icc issues new arrest warrant

    Posted: July 12, 2010, 7:47 pm by kenopp
    President Omar al-Bashir just won’t shake the ICC off. The strongman of Khartoum already has an arrest warrant with his name on it for war crimes and crimes against humanity. To this the international criminal court has added three counts of genocide, the most serious charge in international law. It is interesting to see how [...]

  • Mwakwere seeks to retain seat in matuga by-election

    Posted: July 12, 2010, 10:19 am by kenopp
    Latest: The Daily Nation reports that former Kenyan Transport Minister Ali Chirau Mwakwere has been re-elected as member of parliament for Matuga. Mr. Mwakwere will probably be reinstated as Transport Minister by President Kibaki. The Matuga by-election was occasioned by a court order that annulled Mwakwere’s initial election in the 2007 general election. Update: Mwakwere [...]

  • al-shabaab may be linked to kampala blasts

    Posted: July 12, 2010, 5:39 am by kenopp
    UPDATE: The daily nation reports that Somalia’s insurgent group al-Shabab has claimed the bombings that killed dozens in Kampala yesterday. The Atlantic’s Max Fisher offers an interesting analysis of the bombings. Blasts in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, killed at least 64, the BBC reports. According to the report Ugandan security forces suspect that the bomb attacks [...]
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