"Leaders Seek Pay for Ex-Freedom Fighters"

UN peacekeepers in DR of Congo seek hidden Rwandan Hutu fighters
United Nations peacekeeping troops in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) launched their biggest operation in the area today to flush out Rwandan Hutu fighters, the UN spokesman said.

Leaders Seek Pay for Ex-Freedom Fighters
Politicians Paul Muite and James Orengo yesterday launched a Sh6 million legal fees fund to sue theBritish Government for compensation for former Mau Mau freedom fighters.

Sudan: SPLM/A Releases Prisoners of War
The Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) has released more than 150 prisoners of war ahead of the inauguration on Saturday of a new Sudanese government of national unity, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said.

South Africa: Increased funding needed for rural poor - new report
Although South Africa has scaled up social spending over the last decade, considerable additional funding is needed to improve delivery to the country's rural poor, a new study has found. Since the transfer of power to black majority rule in 1994, government spending on health, education, welfare and housing has risen from 52.9 percent to 58.3 percent of the total budget.

Seaweed Farming Helps Women in Tanzania
When 21-year-old Mwajuma Hamisi finished high school a few years ago, the only future she could envision was finding a husband as quickly as possible, to spare her family the burden of taking care of her. Instead, Hamisi found seaweed. Used by companies in the West as an additive in processed meat, toothpaste, mascara, beer and other products, seaweed is helping villagers in this Indian Ocean archipelago find their way out of poverty -- and has improved the lives of women in ways they never thought possible.

Bush evokes 9/11 to bolster Iraq war
Terror link used to rally sceptical US public

SOUTH AFRICA: Rising pressure on govt to deliver quicker
More than a decade after winning power in South Africa's first democratic elections, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) faces increasing pressure to deliver promised social services.

Phony 'Al-Qaeda' Responsibility Claim a Proven Hoax
MSNBC TV translator Jacob Keryakes, who said that a copy of the message was later posted on a secular Web site, noted that the claim of responsibility contained an error in one of the Quranic verses it cited. That suggests that the claim may be phony, he said.

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Garang swearing-in seals Sudan peace
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has signed a new power-sharing constitution - intended to put the final seal on two decades of civil war - and has also sworn in former rebel leader John Garang as his deputy.

South Sudan leader on historic visit to capital
Huge crowds that organizers said topped one million people turned out to welcome south Sudanese former rebel leader John Garang to the capital on his first visit in more than 22 years.

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London Hit as Skepticism Grows on 'Terror War'
Thursday's terror attacks against London's public transportation system, which reportedly killed at least 37 people, came amid indications of growing skepticism here about the effectiveness of U.S. President George W. Bush's "war on terrorism," the policy initiative that has earned him his highest public-approval ratings since September 2001.

The Gallup organization released a new survey just two days ago which found that a plurality of 41 percent of U.S. respondents believe that neither the U.S. and its allies nor the "terrorists" are currently winning the war and that a two-and-a-half year high of 20 percent of the public believe that the "terrorists are winning."