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President Pierre Nkurunziza on Tuesday signed legislation enabling Burundi to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). Check Also: Bashir Mocks ICC, He Travels To Rwanda Despite ICC Arrest Warrant A copy of the law seen by journalists and dated October 18 allows “the Republic of Burundi’s withdrawal from the Rome statute”, the ICC’s founding treaty. The next step will be ...

Kigeli V Ndahindurwa, who ruled his tiny country in central Africa for just nine months before fleeing into exile in 1960, passed away on Sunday in the United States. He was 80. Check also: Meet The World’s Youngest Ruling King, Oyo Nyimba The last in a long-line of monarchs drawn from Rwanda’s Tutsi minority, Kigeli V was ousted by a Belgian-backed ...

”People are eating baboons” Uganda Wildlife Authority has warned travelers who like buying roasted meat along highways to be cautious of what they are eating. Check Also: Poaching Poses Security Threat in East Africa Addressing the press on Tuesday, Dr. Andrew Seguya, the UWA executive director said a number of times, they have arrested and prosecuted people selling Baboons meat in ...

Last week’s deadly attack on three buses on their way from South Sudan to Uganda could well be the start of something serious: runaway former vice president Riek Machar may just have opened a front against Uganda. Check Also: Riek Machar Finally Becomes South Sudan’s Vice-president The attackers killed, abducted and took phones and cash from victims, most of whom are ...

With tensions between Russia and the United States at their highest since the Cold War, there have been alarming signs coming out of Moscow that suggest the country is ready for war. Check also: Russia Unveiled The First MC-21 Medium-Haul Passenger Plane Almost no one believes the Kremlin is actually preparing for a military conflict with the United States. Most analysts instead ...