Africa

President Obama Greets Young People in Kenya

"A politics that's based solely on tribe and ethnicity is a politics that's doomed to tear a country apart," said President Obama during a speech in Kenya. "It s a failure, a failure of imagination." President Obama spent the week-end in Kenya on a visit aimed to deepen U.S. alliances with Kenya on trade, terrorism and wildlife protection.

Apologizing for not visiting his relatives as the traditional customs would require, he referred to the obligations of political officials

General Emmanuel Karenzi Karake

He is perhaps one of the most prominent Rwandan Patriotic Front elite group accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. The man, Emmanuel Karenzi Karake is head of Rwandan National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS). Aged 54, General Emmanuel Karenzi Karake, know as "KK", is an influential member of the circle of cronies around the Rwandan  dictator Paul Kagame, mostly born in the  exile in Uganda. He was one of the top military leaders of the RPF rebellion before it seized power in 1994.

The British Foreign Office confirmed in official statements  that Karake was arrested Saturday by the Metropolitan Police, without giving

Paul Kagame in Dar-es-Salaam on crisis in Burundi- He is also seeking to change the Rwandan Constitution

“the Arusha Agreement, which was carefully negotiated and accepted by most parties and sectors of Burundian society, brought an end to years of tragic civil war and established the foundation for Burundi’s post-conflict recovery...President Nkurunziza’s decision to disregard the term limit provision of the Arusha Agreement has destabilized Burundi and the sub-region, triggered violence, and endangered Burundi’s economic well-being.” It is in these unequivocal terms that the US  State Department expressed the open position of the US Government  to the attempts by Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza to change the constitution of his counrty, to allow himself to run for a forbidden third term.

Attempts to change the Constitution have led to massive bloody protests, a failed coup, and scores of killed. A low level insurgency is feared as