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| Rwanda | Tanzania Politics | Society | Human rights 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. |
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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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$389,9 million) annually. |
| Kenya Politics | Society | Human rights ICC to investigate Kenya’s post election violence afrol News - The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced that he will ask the tribunal to open an investigation into the post-election violence in Kenya in December 2007 and January 2008. |
| Uganda Health | Society | Gay - Lesbian | Human rights "Uganda AIDS prevention threatened" afrol News - Over 50 Ugandan and international organisations are warning government that the "repressive" HIV and AIDS Prevention and Control Bill, soon to be voted on in the Kampala parliament, could destroy Uganda's earlier successes in fighting back the pandemic. |
| Rwanda Human rights | Society Rwandan tea baron jailed over genocide afrol News - The former head of the government office that controlled the Rwandan tea industry was today sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty by a UN tribunal over his role in the country's 1994 genocide. He is to have assisted slaughtering more than 1,000 Tutsis. |
| Burundi Economy - Development Burundi gets economic reform grant afrol News - With progress made turning the Burundian economy into a post-conflict stage, the World Bank today has approved a grant of US$ 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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