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After bitter wrangling, Africa’s leaders agreed to denounce the International Criminal Court and refuse to extradite Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted for crimes against humanity in Darfur. The decision at the African Union summit said AU members “shall not cooperateâ€_ with the court in The Hague “in the arrest and transfer of President Omar al-Bashir of the Sudan to the ICCâ€_. Sudan welcomed the move, and other Africans said it was a signal to the West that it shouldn’t impose its ways on Africa. A human rights group said the decision was a gift to a dictator. The 13th AU summit of heads of state, which concluded yesterday in Sirte, Libya, also “expresses its preoccupation about the behaviour of the ICC prosecutorâ€_ Luis Moreno Ocampo, whom African officials... [read full story]
AFP - Snipers have taken over where bombers left off in Mogadishu, the war-wracked capital of Somalia where African Union peacekeepers are facing an uphill battle to counter the advance of Islamist insurgents.
Replies: 0 Last poster: Mtheto Lungu at 25-11-2009 14:16 Topic is Open LILONGWE. Thursday 25 November 2009. Probably one of the least populated countries in the SADC region, Malawi's population has grown by 2.8% between the...
It takes sacrifice and real hard work to get where one desires to be in this world . There should be no quick fixes and quick returns; in essence we say forward ever backward never in our quest as a nation, to implement our...
The West Africa Quality Programme (WAQP), in collaboration with the National Codex Sanitary and Phytosanitary Committee (NCSPSC), on Wednesday organised a day's information-sharing seminar for media practitioners and consumer...
