OBASANJO MEETS KABILA OVER DRC CRISIS

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, the United Nations special envoy for eastern Congo, met Congolese President Joseph Kabila late on Friday and will fly east for talks with rebel leader Laurent Nkunda.
Obasanjo is trying to avert a broader regional war breaking out after battles between Nkunda’s Tutsi guerrillas and the Congolese army forced some 250,000 [...]

RWANDAN AIDE TO BE SENT TO FRANCE

A senior aide to Rwandan President Paul Kagame is to be transferred from detention in Germany to French custody next week, officials say. Rose Kabuye was arrested in Germany on Sunday accused of involvement in the destruction of a plane carrying former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana.
His death in the incident is said to have [...]

MOTHERS WOUNDED IN ALBINO ATTACK

Two mothers in western Tanzania have been attacked by gangs who were after their children who have albinism. The women were hacked with machetes when the attackers failed to find the two children.
Albinos have been targeted in a series of killings around the country due to a belief their body parts can make magic [...]

RWANDA TO FIND HUTU REBELS IN DRC

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have agreed to co-operate to deal with forces along their common border blamed for the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Both countries’ foreign ministers said Rwandan intelligence teams would go into DR Congo to help eradicate them.
The Hutu fighters have lived in eastern DR Congo since 1994 and have [...]