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Exclusive: Congo’s army accused of abuse as rebels regroup in Rwanda: U.N. experts

December 18, 2013 Global Authorcongo, DRC, Rebels, refugees

(Reuters) – Recently defeated M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have continued to recruit fighters in neighboring Rwanda while the Congolese army has been involved in human rights abuses and corruption, according to a confidential U.N. report. “The Group has documented that M23 received continued support from Rwandan territory,” the U.N. Group of Experts said in its final report… Read More

22 dead in Congo capital shootout

December 18, 2013 Global AuthorDRC, Shootout, violence, war

BRAZZAVILLE: At least 22 people died as a result of Monday’s firefight in Congo’s capital between soldiers and the bodyguard of a wanted high-ranking army officer, a source in the city morgue told reporters. “Twenty-two bodies … have been brought here from the scene of the clashes,” the source said Tuesday on condition of anonymity. On Monday a gun… Read More

How Madiba influenced the arts

December 16, 2013 Global AuthorDeath Of Mandela, Johannesburg, Madiba, Malawi, Mandela, Maravipost, Qunu, Raphael Tenthani, South Africa

BLANTYRE(MaraPost)--There could hardly be any other contemporary icon from the arts to politics that every author, sculptor, film producer or musician wants to do something about than Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela who died aged 95 on December 5 in the leafy Houghton suburb of Johannesburg and is scheduled to be interred in his homeland on Qunu in the Eastern Cape Sunday.... Read More

Malawi Pres. Joyce Banda’s eulogy at Mandela’s burial in Qunu

December 16, 2013 Global AuthorEulogy, Joyce Banda, Madiba, Malawi, Mandela, Nelson mandela Dies, Rohlihlahla, South Africa

I stand before you today to join you, the people of South Africa, and the world, to mourn the loss of a great leader: Nelson Rohlihlahla Mandela. I join you, the people of this rainbow nation, to celebrate a life of one of Africa’s unique leaders who gallantly fought for freedom and peace for this great country and the world. Read More

Why Nelson Mandela never forgave ex-wife, Winnie

December 16, 2013 Global AuthorMandela Dies, Nelson Mandela, South Africa, Winnie Mandela

Nelson Mandela passed away Thursday night. John Carlin in his new book ‘Knowing Mandela,’ reveals why he never forgave the former wife who has visited his bedside. TWO weeks before Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in February 1990 I went to see his wife, Winnie, at her home in Diepkloof Extension, the posh neighbourhood of Soweto where the handful of... Read More

Together for the release of political prisoners in Rwanda!

December 13, 2013 Global AuthorKagame, Mandela, Rwanda, sentenced, victoire ingabire

December 13, 2013 RWANDA: OPPOSITION LEADER MADAM VICTOIRE INGABIRE HANDED 15 YEARS IN PRISON Today, as President Paul Kagame has finally decided to go to pay his last respect to the freedom and reconciliation hero Nelson Mandela, his Supreme Court sentenced the political prisoner Madam Victoire Ingabire to 15 years in prison on final appeal, almost the double of the… Read More

The Rwanda People’s Party Mourns President Nelson Mandela, a Global Peace Icon

December 12, 2013 Global Authorjohn karuranga, RPF, Rwanda, South Africa

On 05th of December 2013, the world heard with sadness news that South Africa, and Africa as a whole, lost its greatest son, President Nelson Mandela. President Mandela will always be a giant icon for peace, unity and reconciliation. He helped drag South Africa from the shackles of racist apartheid and pushed it onto a path of peace and reconciliation.… Read More

Rwanda: The RPF regime determined to decapitate the political opposition

December 12, 2013 Global AuthorFDU, Ingabire, Kagame, RNC, Rwanda

The Rwandan Supreme Court’s ruling on the appeal of imprisoned opposition leader Ms. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza is expected this Friday 13 December 2013.Ingabire, leader of Rwanda’s FDU-Inkingi Party, was arrested three years ago, in October 2010, after attempting to run for president against sitting President Paul Kagame. The fate of Ingabire was clear from the day (16 January 2010) she… Read More

Central African Republic: Tragedy At the Imam’s House

December 12, 2013 Global AuthorCAR, HRW, UN, violence, war

Photo: Voxcom/IRIN Some of the LRA soldiers sit outside, Sudan, April 2007. On Thursday morning, the photographer Marcus Bleasdale and I went to see the imam of Bossangoa, Central African Republic (CAR), at his home in the Muslim Boro district of the town. The situation in Bossangoa was tense as word spread of heavy fighting in the capital, Bangui, between the… Read More

South Africa: Mandela Public Viewing Begins

December 12, 2013 Global Authordeath, Mandela, South Africa

PHOTO ESSAY: Nelson Mandela’s Body Lies In State Pretoria — Members of the public began filing past the body of former president Nelson Mandela as it lay in state at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Thursday morning. Several people in wheelchairs were escorted and a young child was carried on the back of an adult man. A woman draped in… Read More