AFP – Last month’s al-Shabaab assault on a AMISOM base left dozens of Burundian soldiers dead in one of the deadliest incidents in eight years ago. AFRICAN Union troops said Sunday they had launched a new offensive against Al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab rebels in southern Somalia, vowing to flush the insurgents out of rural areas. The African
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By LAUREN FRENCH Half a dozen lawmakers will travel with Barack Obama to Kenya and Ethiopia next week in what is the president’s first trip to his ancestral homeland since being elected. The White House invited a large contingent of lawmakers, prominently members of the Congressional Black Caucus, to join him on the Africa trip.
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US President Barack Obama speaks following a forum with regional and US business leaders in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, 1 July 2013 Ethiopia will now feature in Mr Obama’s final official African tour Barack Obama will become the first sitting US president to visit Ethiopia, the White House says. Mr Obama will travel to the
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“Only after Al-Bashir safely touched down in Khartoum on Monday, were Sudanese troops withdrawn. While the fiasco around President Omar Al-Bashir’s possible arrest in Johannesburg escalated, the Sudanese troops held about 1 400 South African soldiers in Darfur “hostage,” according to a report. The South African National Defence Union’s Pikkie Greeff on Tuesday told EWN
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“Only after Al-Bashir safely touched down in Khartoum on Monday, were Sudanese troops withdrawn. While the fiasco around President Omar Al-Bashir’s possible arrest in Johannesburg escalated, the Sudanese troops held about 1 400 South African soldiers in Darfur “hostage,” according to a report. The South African National Defence Union’s Pikkie Greeff on Tuesday told EWN
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AFP- Johannesburg – Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir flew out of South Africa on Monday, dodging a court order for him to stay as judges weighed up whether he should be arrested over alleged war crimes and genocide. Bashir had travelled to Johannesburg for an African Union summit that was overshadowed by the International Criminal Court
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Why South Africa let Bashir get away Once again, the ICC comes out as a toothless entity in the wrangling over African leaders accused of war crimes. A provisional court order was issued on Sunday to prevent Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir from leaving South Africa where he had been attending the African Union (AU) summit.
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Why South Africa let Bashir get away Once again, the ICC comes out as a toothless entity in the wrangling over African leaders accused of war crimes. A provisional court order was issued on Sunday to prevent Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir from leaving South Africa where he had been attending the African Union (AU) summit.
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President Uhuru Kenyatta did not say his country would stop accepting foreign aid. Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged fellow African leaders to stop receiving foreign aid, saying it is not an acceptable basis for prosperity. “Dependency on giving that only appears to be charitable must end,” he said in a tweet ahead of this
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President Uhuru Kenyatta did not say his country would stop accepting foreign aid. Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged fellow African leaders to stop receiving foreign aid, saying it is not an acceptable basis for prosperity. “Dependency on giving that only appears to be charitable must end,” he said in a tweet ahead of this
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