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The government of Uganda has been intimidating members of the media since before the February 23 presidential elections , including filing criminal charges against some journalists for their work, according to a...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, the UN Security Council has expressed its approval of the African Union decision to extend the AU peacekeeping force mandate for Darfur by six...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, a bill passed by the out-going Fatah party in the Palestinian Authority which granted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas greater presidential powers, including the power to set up a constitutional court staffed...

Leading Tuesday's international brief, Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye has been found not guilty of rape by a High Court judge who ridiculed the disarray of the prosecutor's office in presenting jumbled and often mislabeled evidence and...

Leading Monday's international brief, the Law Society of Kenya has said that it is initiating a private lawsuit against three senior Kenyan government officials for their part in last week's police raid on the Standard...

A Ugandan military court-martial has reinstated firearms and terrorism charges against defeated presidential candidate Kizza Besigye after the military trial was postponed during elections . Besigye's lawyers said Thursday that they...

The main opposition party in Uganda , Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) , said Tuesday that it plans to contest the country's election results in court. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni won last Tuesday's election...

Opposition politicians in Uganda have said that Thursday's election, the first multi-party elections held in the country in more than twenty years, was marred by fraud. Though it appears that incumbent President Yoweri Museveni ...

Leading Monday's international brief, the Israeli Cabinet has agreed to impose a hefty series of sanctions against the Palestinian Authority (PA) unless the ruling party of Hamas commits to non-violence and drops its call...

Leading Friday's international brief, four high profile Egyptian judges who spoke out against fellow colleagues accused of rigging votes in last year's presidential elections have been stripped of judicial immunity and are scheduled to be questioned by Egyptian police...