Four men accused of trying to kill a Rwandan general living in exile in Johannesburg made brief court appearances Tuesday, while prosecutors said that the suspects were not from Rwanda or South Africa. Dissident Lt. Gen. Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa's wife has accused Rwandan President Paul Kagame in the shooting, a charge the Rwandan government denies. The attack comes as human rights groups say Rwanda's government is smashing dissent ahead of an August election....
Tanzania yesterday warned the grumbling opposition political party leaders in Burundi to either participate in tomorrow's General Election or risk alienation in the East and Central African regi...
Gordon Brown looks set to resign tonight and allow David Cameron to become Britain’s new Prime Minister after Labour talks with the Liberal Democrats collapsed. The Labour leader’s despe...
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has arrived in Kenya to investigate the country's post-election violence. More than 1,300 people were killed and hundreds of thousands d...
Pope Benedict XVI says the Church's child abuse scandal shows that the greatest threat to Catholicism comes from "sin within" the Church. He made his comments in response to a questio...
Given below are the texts of two declarations, one by Bishop Roger Joseph Vangheluwe of Bruges, Belgium, concerning his resignation from office, and the other by Archbishop Andre-Mutien Leonard of ...
Roman Catholic bishops called on corrupt Catholic leaders in Africa on Friday to repent or resign for giving the continent and the Church a bad name. Around 200 African bishops, along with dozens of o...
The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's president on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. However, the court stopped short of accusing Oma...