Sudan's first multi-party elections in over two decades are planned for 11 April 2010. As stipulated in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended the north-south conflict, the elect……

Over the next two years, and especially on the day when they cast their vote during the 2011 referendum on self-determination, the people of South Sudan need to remember the past while deciding the fu……

As agreed in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended one of the longest and bloodiest wars in Africa, South Sudan will hold a referendum on self-determination in 2011 where the people in the……

On April 22, South Africans voted in forth democratic elections since the end of apartheid. The African National Congress won about 65% of the vote, thus paving the way for Zuma to become the new pres……

Philip Gourevitch wrote in his book on the Rwandan genocide that "the dead of Rwanda accumulated at nearly three times the rate of Jewish dead during the Holocaust. It was the most efficient mass……

As Sudan Tribune writes, "an alliance of Sudanese Islamic jihadists and Darfur Arab militia groups pledged to carry out attacks against countries that are supporting the decisions of the Internat……

“We believers know that Jesus will come back, we say the ANC will rule until he comes back,” Zuma, who is likely to be the next president, told ANC supporters in the Mpumalanga province. ……

Interestingly, the AU decided to appoint the same man who while the president of South Africa had a very friendly relationship with Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan who is indicted by the ICC fo……

This is the first time the ICC has filled charges against a sitting head of state. The chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, believes he can prove that al-Bashir and his government are criminally resp……

"Key rebel leaders have opened offices in Tel Aviv and meet frequently with the (Israeli) army... If Tel Aviv among others is behind the events in Darfur, why then call al-Bashir or the Sudanese ……

In a report titled "Empty Promises on Darfur: International community fails to protect," Amnesty International has criticized the international community "for its failure to improve the……

Over the past year, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the American Academy of Diplomacy, and the United States Institute of Peace worked on identifying “practical steps that could enh……

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Mugabe's regime claims that the cholera outbreak does not exist in Zimbabwe any more. They say the entire story about the cholera epidemic has been fabricated in the West to mobilize the support ……

As a two-year temporary member of the UN Security Council, South Africa has voted against imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe, despite the unthinkable crisis and ruthless dictatorship of Robert Mugabe. Whi……

In July 2008, the annual inflation rate in the country was over 231,000,000%. Yes, you got it right - 231 million percent and rising! Since 2000, the overall food production in Zimbabwe has declined b……

Zackie Achmat, a prominent South African AIDS activist has recently blamed the former president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, for 330,000 HIV/AIDS related deaths in the country. According to a rece……

It is estimated that about 200,000 people have died in the conflict from fighting, disease, and starvation. The UN and aid agencies estimate that over two million Darfurians, out of a population of ab……

A few weeks ago, Mosiuoa Lekota was one of the most respected members of the South African ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC). He used to be a central figure in the struggle against apa……

In a recent speech in front of the United Nation's General Assembly, Sudan's vice-president, Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, said that his government was fully committed to the Darfur peace process,……