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James Musoni, the Embattled Minister Behind the New Times Boss Arrest

Musoni’s notorious actions have become a real threat to human life in Rwanda.

(RWANDA) - James Musoni, commonly known as Rajabu in Rwanda is again embroiled in another scam, but as usual hiding his head in the sand like an ostrich and busy whispering to his boss and mentor’s ears the names of those to be thrown in jail or fired.

European Union commits €53billion aid a year, make it count say NGOs

Busan sees the international community at a crossroads, with a real chance to support poor countries tackle poverty and end aid dependency.

(BUSAN) - The world’s biggest aid donor, the European Union, should stand up for ambitious proposals to tackle global poverty at the Busan High Level Forum (HLF4) aid summit say NGOs.

CONCORD, Europe’s Relief and Development NGO confederation present in Busan, urges European leaders to make its extensive aid programme more effective ahead of tomorrow’s summit.

Busan summit must not miss vital opportunity to end aid dependency says ActionAid

Currently just 55% of aid worldwide is 'real aid' according to ActionAid’s Real Aid 3 report released earlier this year.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The international community must seize the chance to put countries in the driving seat of their own development, anti-poverty agency ActionAid says, as the fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness opens in Busan, Korea.

ActionAid is calling for donors to agree to fund developing country government plans which directly benefit poor communities and enable citizens to hold their governments to account.

DR Congo Polls Disrupted by Violence

About 19,000 candidates competing for 500 legislative seats, while 11 candidates are vying for the presidency.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - At least seven people killed in attacks on voting centres and vehicle carrying ballots in the city of Lubumbashi.
Seven people have been killed in two separate clashes on Election Day in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the country's interior minister has said.

Although voting was scheduled to be completed early on Monday evening, the chairman of the country's electoral commission announced that voting would be extended at least until Tuesday.

Beyond the Rule of Law: Being a Political Prisoner in HMP Cardiff

The Trials and Tribulations by a Chronic Litigant in Person Aged 66

(LONDON) - Maurice J Kirk BVSc[1] was arrested in Tottenham Police Station in London on 21st September 2011, when he witnessed a street fight and tried to recuperate two mobile phones. The Police had confiscated the phones as evidence, when Mr Kirk tried to help the Nigerian couple whose six children were kidnapped by Haringey Council in April 2010.

He was transferred to HMP Cardiff where he has been harassed by South Wales Police for years.

A Call to Boycott trade investment in Rwanda

The RPP are calling to an end to this unfortunate support of a regime that has gone off rail

(MALMO, Sweden) - As you are all aware Rwanda is now at a cross-roads as the people of Rwanda continue to experience the most gruesome, inhumane and degrading abuses under the current dictatorial regime of President Kagame whose wild behaviours are beyond comprehension.

Indeed, these relentless man-made tragedies could be avoidable if the international community would continue to encourage and support a democratic and peaceful political settlement in order to allow the country to return to normalcy...

Gaddafi Son Saif al-Islam captured in Libya`s south

Gaddafi was then taken by air back to Zintan, pending transfer to Tripoli.

(TRIPOLI ) - Saif al-Islam Gaddafi has reportedly been captured after three months on the run. He was disguised as a Tuareq hiding within the Tuareg near Ubari.

Sources say he was scared and down to his last few thousand dollars in cash when he was detained in Libya's southern desert.

The Ordinary Man that Rwanda would like to silence

A hero does not blink in the face of danger; he looks it in the eyes and faces down the challenge. Paul Rusesabagina did this in 1994 and continues to do so today.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Paul Rusesabagina received the prestigious Lantos Foundation Humanitarian Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

He kept over 1,200 Tutsi and moderate Hutus from being brutally slaughtered by the Interahamwe who murdered over 800,000 others in just 90 days.

World Attention Focuses on UK Political Prisoners: Musa Family and Aviation Adventurer Maurice Kirk

Activists demand freedom for Musa children and one of their outspoken advocates.

(SALEM / LONDON) - We have been receiving a flurry of information about the family of Gloria Musa in the UK, who has suffered by many accounts, a terrible injustice from the British government.

I hope many people involve themselves and reach out to public officials to help this unfortunate family, originally from Nigeria, who seems to be running into dead-ends everywhere they turn.

Open Letter to Amnesty International - Please Help!

Urgent appeal begs justice for Musa family and Maurice Kirk.

(LONDON) - John "butlincat" Graham, clarifies what is taking place with the Musa family, whose children were taken by government agents over allegations now disproven.

It also reaches out to include the story of activist Maurice Kirk, who has been on hunger strike in Cardiff prison for about 3 weeks now, which the prison denies. He had lost 14 kg as of a couple of days after entry to the prison - he has been beaten...