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Interview: Eritrea Information Minister Ali Abdu Confirms He Left The Regime

First Interview With Eritrea’s Ali Abdu: Information Minister Confirms: Has Left The Regime Expressen newspaper interview translated by Google Translate from Swedish. BEIRUT. Eritrean dictator Isaias Afewerkis Information Minister Ali Abdu Ahmed has fled the country and is living today … read more »

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Medrek: The way I see it

by T.Goshu I had a chance to attend one of the town hall meetings held in the United States of America during the working visit paid by the four higher officials of Medrek . As one of the genuinely concerned … read more »

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Congo: crisis in East deflects attention from need for reforms from Kinshasa

By Günther v. Billerbeck at Good Governance Group (G3) The current crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) North and South Kivu provinces is yet another episode in the epic conflict that has engulfed the region since the Rwandan … read more »

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Celebration or realisation? Uganda at 50

Jamie Hitchen October 9 marked the fiftieth anniversary of Ugandan independence from British colonial rule. Yoweri Museveni and the National Resistance Movement (NRM), in power since 1986, celebrated the day’s events at the official event in the district of Kololo … read more »

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Boy, 13, in court for gang rape

Johannesburg – A 13-year-old boy, allegedly involved in the gang rape of a 17-year-old mentally impaired Soweto girl, will appear in Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. Four boys and three men, who matched the descriptions of rapists shown in a … read more »

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