Iraqi backing of Obama plan irks White House

WASHINGTON – The White House expressed unhappiness Monday about Iraqi leaders’ public backing for Barack Obama’s troop withdrawal timetable. And it said that Baghdad may be trying to use the U.S. presidential election as leverage in talks about the future of American’s military presence and obligations in the war.

Zimbabwe rivals sign agreement ( CAN WOYANNE LEARN SOMETHING FROM THIS AGREEMENT)

something After a bloody election season marked by beatings and assassinations of opposition supporters, Zimbabwe’s feuding political leaders met face to face on Monday to sign an agreement laying out terms for negotiations to wrest their land out of political chaos.

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.

Woyanne court rules against Tedy Afro

The kangaroo court in Ethiopia today sent popular singer Tedy Afro back to prison after ignoring the forged hospital record that was produced by the prosecutor.

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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 on Bad Boys, What You Gonna Do When the ICC Catches You?”

Africa’s isolated state

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.