"G8 promised money for Africa goes to Iraq"

Belgian Missionary pleads innocence in Rwanda genocide
A Belgian priest accused of inciting people to participate in Rwanda's 1994 genocide pleaded his innocence on Sunday before a traditional court.

Multi-Drug Resistant TB Cases Confirmed
A super tuberculosis strain is circulating in Nairobi, Coast, Nyanza and North Eastern provinces, says researchers at the Kenya Medical Research Institute and confirmed by a World Health Organisation's reference laboratory in the UK.

ANC Reads Riot Act to Mbeki And Zuma
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki and former Deputy President Jacob Zuma have been ordered by ANC leaders to suspend their bitter feud and lead the party out of its crisis.

G8 promised money for Africa goes to Iraq
Barely two months since the G8 summit at Gleneagles in Scotland, it has emerged that part of the much-heralded foreign aid money promised for Africa is in fact earmarked for debt relief in Iraqi.

Mediator talking to Lord's Resistance Army
The mediator in the Ugandan peace process said on Friday she was in regular contact with the leader of a rebel movement in a bid to breathe life into a peace process aimed at ending nearly two decades of fighting in the north of the country.

Africa's best scientists leaving - Osafo-Maafo
Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, the Minister of Education and Sports, has said the brain drain of Africa's best scientists to the industrialized world has increased.

Sudan Government Formation Delayed
The formation of Sudan's unity government has been delayed yet again, prompting fears that the northern government in Sudan is not ready to commit to power sharing with the former southern rebels.

Sudan Government Formation Delayed
The formation of Sudan's unity government has been delayed yet again, prompting fears that the northern government in Sudan is not ready to commit to power sharing with the former southern rebels.

Somali President Denies Rising Tension, Foreign Troops
Somalia's president is eager to play down fears of a surge in fighting, a day after U.N. aid workers were evacuated from parts of the country amid threats by militia leaders. He is also denying the presence of heavily-armed Ethiopian troops in the country.

Mugabe off to Cuba
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe arrived in Cuba yesterday, criticising the International Monetary Fund, even though the organization a day earlier deferred a decision for six months on whether to expel it.

Ghanaian troops end peacekeeping duty in Sierra Leone
Ghanaian troops serving under the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) have ended their tour of duty and will return home by the end of September, UNAMSIL announced here Saturday.

New Orleans becomes a war zone
The disaster that struck New Orleans and the southern Gulf Coast has given rise to the largest military mobilization in modern history on US soil. Nearly 65,000 US military personnel are now deployed in the disaster area, transforming the devastated port city into a war zone.

UNITED STATES: New Orleans: Barbarity of US capitalism exposed
Any person in the world who is not a stone cold racist or sociopath cannot help but react with visceral disgust, outrage and revulsion at the criminal response of the US government to the catastrophe of New Orleans; and to feel deep sympathy with the victims of that criminality.

World summit on UN's future heads for chaos
The British government is mounting a huge diplomatic effort this weekend to prevent the biggest-ever summit of world leaders, designed to tackle poverty and overhaul the United Nations, ending in chaos.

Kadhafi pleads for African veto in Security Council
Africa has the right to a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council with veto power to compensate for previous injustices, irrespective of whether this council is expanded or not, the Libyan leader, Col, Moammar Kadhafi, affirmed here

FEMA Attempts Media Black Out in New Orleans
As hurricane clean-up efforts kick into gear in New Orleans and the surrounding storm-ravaged areas, federal government officials have been taking action seemingly to prevent the news media from accurately reporting on the tragic human toll Hurricane Katrina has taken so far.

A Look at the Refugee Situation Around the Country

Exiles from a city and from a nation

Stupid Quotes About Hurricane Katrina