Justice Delayed, But Hopefully Not For Long!
Washington,Dc(galbeed.com) Editorial : The top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) sought the arrest of Sudan ’s President Omar Bashir for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur .
Bashir had “personally instructed” his forces to annihilate three ethnic groups in the western Sudanese region. However, Meles […]
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Army worms, hail and floods are adding to the woes of Ethiopians reeling from high world food prices and a drought that has affected some 4.6 million people, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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While the accord itself was a modest step in light of Zimbabwe’s collapse and the many hurdles to a final resolution, the sight of President Robert Mugabe in the same room as his nemesis, Morgan Tsvangirai, was a striking departure from the political bloodletting of recent months and the deep antipathy between the two men. They even shook hands.
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Justice Delayed, But Hopefully Not For Long!
In September, 2004 President George W. Bush lamented, “The world is witnessing terrible suffering and horrible crimes in the Darfur region of Sudan, crimes my government has concluded are genocide.” In July, 2008, President Omar al-Bashir officially became the numero uno wanted man for orchestrating genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and murder in the Darfur region of the Sudan. (more…)
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Somaliland won its independence from Britain in June 1960, a few days before Italy relinquished colonial control of neighbouring Somalia.
An emotional union ensued, creating a Somali Republic with its capital located in Mogadishu. But it soon proved to be an unhappy marriage.
“Somaliland became the poor relative, the isolated, forgotten corner of the Union,” Edna Adan, a retired senior UN official and former wife of Somalia’s first Prime Minister, Mohammed Ibrahim Egal, told Al Jazeera.
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First she set out a bowl of corn mush, seasoned with tree leaves, dried fish and wood ashes, for the 11 smallest children, who tore into it with bare hands
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