Washington - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin says she thought the election day contest between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain would be closer. But she added that, in retrospect, "it's really not so much a surprise" that Obama's margin of victory was so large.
Rwanda asked the German ambassador to leave Kigali on Tuesday in a growing row over Germany’s arrest of a senior aide to President Paul Kagame. Rose Kabuye, the director general of state protocol, was arrested at Frankfurt airport on Sunday by German police acting on an international warrant issued by France in 2006 for her and eight other Kagame associates.
THE Government of South Sudan (GOSS) has given November as a deadline to Kony and his henchmen to to sign the final peace agreement or face attack.
Martin Majut Yak, the director of presidential affairs in the South Sudan government, and on a visit to Uganda said his government had the capacity to “finish off” the LRA in seven days.
Goma - Government forces went on a rampage of looting and rape against civilians on Tuesday, the UN said, amid warnings of "humanitarian black holes" opening up in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
The President and Commander-in-Chief of the Uganda People s Defence Forces (UPDF), General Yoweri Museveni, has thanked the people of Uganda for supporting the National Resistance Movement (NRM) governmentas reported by the Uganda media center. He said their decision has provided the Movement government enough time to build a multifaceted army capable of dealing with the defence challenges of the country.
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