According to the UN Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), more than 100,000 people have been displaced since August 28 in North-Kivu since the recent outbreak of fighting between the Congrès National pour la Défense du Peuple (CNDP) troops led by rebel Laurent Nkunda, which has been trying to destabilize this eastern part of [...]

Rwanda has accused senior French officials, including the country’s former president and prime minister, of being involved in its 1994 genocide.
“French soldiers themselves directly were involved in assassinations of Tutsis and Hutus accused of hiding Tutsis,” the report said. “French soldiers committed many rapes, specifically of Tutsi women.”
The report published by President Paul Kagame’s government [...]

Nigeria’s main militant group says it has blown up two more oil pipelines in an overnight attack. In an email to journalists giving details of the overnight attack, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta says the pipelines in Rivers State are operated by a unit of oil giant Royal Dutch Shell PLC.
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Sudan’s president, Omar al-Bashir, has begun a visit to the country’s western Darfur region. As Derek Kilner reports from VOA’s East Africa bureau in Nairobi, the trip comes as the Sudanese government is attempting to rally international support for rejecting an effort by the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor to bring charges against President al-Bashir…
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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 most important Africa related news story of the summer has just arrived. Mr. Moreno-Ocampo, the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court has formally requested an arrest warrant for Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir. Mr. Al-Bashir thereby becomes the first international leader accused of the highest crimes against humanity. Mr Moreno-Ocampo declared he has found [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is facing its greatest challenge since its creation, in 2002. After receiving a green light from the Security Council to prosecute those in charge with the mass murders that occurred in the last five years in Darfur, the ICC is expected to take legal action against some of the top officials in the Sudanese government, possibly even the president of the country.

It is unfortunate that South Africa the economic power house of black Africa has gone “south’ since Thabo Mbeki assumed office: His questionable “quiet diplomacy” with Robert Mugabe and statement on the election crisis; his failure to assume leadership position on the Darfur crisis; and his inability to curb increasing rate of crime and unemployment all speak volumes….and when xenophobic rage is consuming his nation, what did Mbeki do? He jumps on the plane and head for Tokyo!

Zimbabweans seeking refuge from days of murderous anti-immigrant riots in a police station on the outskirts of Johannesburg took comfort and encouragement Thursday from opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai who urged them to return to Zimbabwe to rebuild their lives and support his presidential bid to restore their country.
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