Human Rights Watch Attorney Sara Darehshori traveled to Darfur to gauge the response of the refugees to ICC indictment:

“Today, I heard a woman who just spoke to a bunch of people in refugee camps and they said that after the prosecutor’s announcement, this was the first time they could sleep. It was a big deal [...]

The African Union (AU) is reportedly calling on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to suspend indictments against Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who is charged with masterminding a campaign of genocide in Darfur. Peter Clottey/VOA
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Africa researcher Emira Woods of Washington’s Institute for Policy Studies has been following the Liberian leader’s efforts to raise conditions for African rulers to achieve power and govern their people through democratic means. She points out that Mrs. Sirleaf is one of a growing number of African voices to speak out for the people of [...]

Podcast: Community leaders in Nigeria’s restive oil-rich Niger Delta have unanimously rejected a government-proposed summit aimed at resolving the military crisis in the region.
Lidum Mitte the President of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People offers some insight why the summit is rejected: Previous summits had been reduced to mere “talk shops” [...]

A spokesman for Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe has rejected criticism of the country’s presidential election, saying those who call the vote illegitimate can ‘go hang’.
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PODCAST: The chief of the new U.S. military command for Africa [AFRICOM] says he will invite African military officers to serve at his headquarters, once the operation gets up and running. VOA Pentagon Correspondent Al Pessin interviewed the commander, General William Ward.
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Podcast: Qualifying matches have begun around the world for the football World Cup, which begins in two years. In 2010 the World Cup is to be held for the first time in Africa and attention is focusing on host nation South Africa. In anticipation, sports and tourism officials have assured industry observers and sports fans [...]