KOFI ANNAN HANDS OVER KENYAN LIST TO ICC

Kenya’s post-election crisis mediator Kofi Annan said on Thursday he had handed a sealed envelope with the names of top suspects behind the violence to the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor.
The ICC has vowed to try perpetrators of the worst bloodletting in Kenya’s post-independence history — in which at least 1,300 people died and 300,000 were [...]

YEMINI CRASH VICTIMS FOUND IN TANZANIA

Debris and bodies thought to be from the plane that crashed off Comoros in the Indian Ocean last week have washed up on a Tanzanian island, police say.
A regional police commander said crash investigators in the Comoros had been informed of the find.
Security forces have been deployed to Mafia Island, several hundred miles north-west of [...]

MASS RAPING IN DRC

The Congolese military has promised to penalize any soldiers found guilty of rights abuses, after activists claimed troops were carrying out mass rape.
Military spokesman Colonel Leon Richard Kasonga said commanders must ensure the safety of civilians.
Last week US-based group Human Rights Watch said the army was responsible for most of the rapes in the Democratic [...]

CHINESE FISHERMEN KIDNAPPED OFF CAMEROUN

Report says five Chinese Fishermen have been hijacked off the West African country’s coast.
Security sources say the attack happened off the Bakassi Peninsula, an area ceded by Nigeria to Cameroon last year after a 15-year dispute.
A spokesperson for the rebel Bakassi Freedom Fighters has blamed gunmen from the Nigerian oil town of Port Harcourt.
But the [...]