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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 ...

Members of Burundi National assembly have voted to withdraw the country from the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday. This comes after the United Nations began an inquiry into the human rights abuses in the East African nation that is currently marred by political violence reports AFP. Check also:  How Rwanda And Burundi Became East Africa’s Bad Neighbors 94 lawmakers voted ...

With some 800,000 people killed in 100 days, the 1994 Rwandan genocide was one of the bloodiest events of the 20th century.Twenty-two years later, the incident that sparked the mass slaughter—the shooting down of a plane carrying the then president of Rwanda, Juvénal Habyarimana—remains a mystery, with opposing sides trading accusations of liability. Check also: Rwandan President, Paul Kagame Blasts France Over ...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Monday criticized French investigators who last week reopened an inquiry into a plane crash that sparked the 1994 genocide in which more than 800,000 people were killed. In a series of tweets on Monday, the Rwandan presidency said that “France should be the one tried for genocide.” Check also: How Rwanda And Burundi Became East Africa’s Bad Neighbors ...