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Former priest acquitted on genocide

afrol News - The United Nations court has acquitted Former Catholic priest, Father Hormisdas Nsengimana, who was facing charges of the infamous Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. Father Nsengimana, had been imprisoned for seven years since his 2002 arrest in Cameroon.

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Politics | Society | Human rights

Security Council calls for protection of civilians

afrol News - The Security Council has called on United Nations missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Central African Republic (CAR) and Sudan to coordinate strategies to protect civilians from the rebel Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which has killed, kidnapped and displaced thousands of people.

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Uganda
Economy - Development | Politics | Human rights | Health | Society

Minister urges Ugandans to control population growth

afrol News - Uganda’s State Minister for Planning, Ephraim Kamuntu has urged the country to take urgent steps in controlling the rapidly growing population.

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Kenya
Society | Human rights | Politics

Nine suspected Mungiki members killed

afrol News - Kenya police have killed nine alleged gang members of Mungiki militia accused of serious atrocities including beheading people, the police chief has said.

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Uganda
Economy - Development | Health | Media | Society

Uganda partners with media to fight HIV/AIDS

afrol News - The Ugandan government has formed an alliance with the media to focus on prevention programmes, in re-shaping its strategy in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

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Kenya
Economy - Development | Environment - Nature | Society

Traffic jams weighs heavily on Kenya’s economy

afrol News - Kenya’s Cabinet minister, Robinson Githae, says traffic jams cost the East Africa’s bread basket about Sh29 billion (US$389,9 million) annually.

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Kenya
Politics | Society | Human rights

ICC to investigate Kenya’s post election violence

afrol News - The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced that he will ask the tribunal to open an investigation into the post-election violence in Kenya in December 2007 and January 2008.

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Uganda
Health | Society | Gay - Lesbian | Human rights

"Uganda AIDS prevention threatened"

afrol News - Over 50 Ugandan and international organisations are warning government that the "repressive" HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Bill, soon to be voted on in the Kampala parliament, could destroy Uganda's earlier successes in fighting back the pandemic.

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Rwanda
Human rights | Society

Rwandan tea baron jailed over genocide

afrol News - The former head of the government office that controlled the Rwandan tea industry was today sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty by a UN tribunal over his role in the country's 1994 genocide. He is to have assisted slaughtering more than 1,000 Tutsis.

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Burundi
Economy - Development

Burundi gets economic reform grant

afrol News - With progress made turning the Burundian economy into a post-conflict stage, the World Bank today has approved a grant of US$ 25 million to further economic reform in the country. Now, also the coffee sector is to get back on its feet.

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