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The Sudanese government has arrested the Islamist leader, Hassan Abdallah al-Turabi, and top members of his political party in the wake of an unprecedented attack by Darfur rebels in the vicinity of the capital, Khartoum. (AllAfrica)

President Yoweri Museveni met Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila in Dar-es-Salaam yesterday for crisis talks that aimed largely at resolving a new border dispute. (AllAfrica)

Chad's government has denied allegations made by neighbouring Sudan that it backed rebels who raided the Sudanese capital Khartoum on 10 May. (AllAfrica)

Representatives of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and an Eritrea-based opposition alliance were gathered in Djibouti on 12 May for peace talks, with the government expressing optimism about the outcome. (AllAfrica)

President Kibaki has launched the national fundraiser for the Internally Displaced Persons. (AllAfrica)

The killing of a peasant in the ongoing Mt Elgon operation has raised fresh doubts in a security undertaking once touted a success against a ragtag militia that had earlier claimed 700 lives in just 18 months. (AllAfrica)

Rwanda has expressed doubts about the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) commitment to disarming rebels of the Forces Démocratiques de la Libération du Rwanda (FDLR), in line with last year's Nairobi Accord. (AllAfrica)

Memories of the 1979 executions of three of Ghana's former heads of state and some top military officers came alive again at the weekend in Abuja as the ex-president of Ghana, Flight Lt. Jerry Rawlings (rtd), said though the killings were regrettable, there was no way his Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) junta could have avoided them. (AllAfrica)

Production looses arising from the protracted Niger Delta crisis and alleged inability of the Nigerian Government to properly fund its own share of the Joint venture has put the Shell Petroleum Development Com-pany of Nigeria (SPDC) in a financial crisis. (AllAfrica)

Ethiopian troops backing Somalia's interim government have disarmed a former warlord in the central regions, reliable sources tell Garowe Online. (AllAfrica)

A former cabinet minister has said the country is under military rule, following Robert Mugabe's defeat in the harmonised elections on 29th March. (AllAfrica)

The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Joe Ghartey has on behalf of the government announced the discontinuation of military protection for mining companies operating in the country. (AllAfrica)

THE opposition Movement for Democratic Change party (MDC-T) said on Sunday that regional peacekeepers will be needed for the presidential run-off election to ensure a peaceful voting process. (AllAfrica)

Former Liberian President, Moses Blah, is expected to take the witness stand tomorrow in the trial of former Liberian President, Charles Taylor. His appearance on the witness stand will depend on how long the previous witness would take. (AllAfrica)

The United States government will help Rwanda in training and equip peace keeping troops deployed in the Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur, the army has said. Rwanda Defense Force spokesperson, Major. Jill Rutaremara said yesterday nine hundred soldiers comprise the first part to be trained and equipped. (AllAfrica)

Mr Richard Nhliziyo could not help crying as menacing supporters of Zimbabwe's ruling party set his three huts on fire in a midnight raid that left his grandchildren too traumatised to return to school. (AllAfrica)

President Kibaki will Monday preside over a fundraising meeting in aid of resettling the displaced people. (AllAfrica)

Sabaot Land Defence Force suspects netted through the security operation in Mt Elgon have led to crowding in local prisons and police cells. (AllAfrica)

Prime Minister Raila Odinga was Sunday asked to extend an olive branch to the Sabaot Land Defence Force in Mt Elgon District as he starts to dialogue with Mungiki sect leaders. (AllAfrica)

Sixty five thousand internal refugees have been resettled in Rift Valley Province since the programme started last week. (AllAfrica)

An assistant minister has accused some MPs from Rift Valley of frustrating the resettlement of people uprooted from the province. (AllAfrica)

The National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has raised the alarm that unless the issue of Nigerian workers in multinational oil companies, whom it accuses of turning to slaves, is addressed the current crisis in the Niger Delta might be a child's play in the future. (AllAfrica)

The home of a former Somali warlord-turned-lawmaker was attacked Sunday in the southwestern town of Baidoa, where the country's interim federal parliament sits, officials said. (AllAfrica)

Women's rights organizations namely, African Women's Development Fund (AWDF), Network for Women's Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT), Abantu for Development, Women's Initiative for Self Empowerment (WISE) and Christian Mothers Association of the Catholic Church have paid a visit to Liberian refugee women at the Buduburam refugee camp. (AllAfrica)

IF found guilty of crimes against humanity, LRA leader Joseph Kony will not be sentenced to death. The death penalty is not an option in the Special Division of the High Court that will try Kony and other LRA rebels implicated in serious crimes and violations. (AllAfrica)

The Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion in the Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday picked up 330 kids from Kigali streets and enrolled them on a two-week rehabilitation solidarity camp (ingando). (AllAfrica)

Judge President Rita Makarau yesterday met some lawyers handling election petitions for both Zanu-PF and MDC-T and agreed that all the cases should be completed in six months, as required by the country's electoral laws. (AllAfrica)

The centrality of sanctions to voting patterns is why they have to go before ZEC can announce the date for the run-off. That is if Zanu-PF and the Government it leads are serious about wanting to defend the gains of the revolution, writes Caesar Zvayi (AllAfrica)

A Hardware shop at Kandeya Shopping Centre in Mount Darwin belonging to a Zanu-PF supporter Mrs Sarah Mudzengerere was on Wednesday petrol-bombed by suspected MDC-T thugs. (AllAfrica)

JOSEPHINE Ejiogu, 63, mother and wife had gone to bed that night hoping to see the next dawn. She must have felt the comforting embrace of the night, wrapped in the bucolic silence of the countryside. (AllAfrica)

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced grave concern over the fighting spurred by attacks by the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) forces that has broken out on the outskirts of the Sudanese capital Khartoum. (AllAfrica)