Copyright 2006, Reuters AlertNet http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/rss/bloggers.xml?uid=35127 en-gb Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:29:04 GMT 5 http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/rss/bloggers.xml?uid=35127 http://www.alertnet.org/images/rtrfndn_alertnet_new_tr.gif http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/35127/2007/07/17-163632-1.htm http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/35127/2007/07/17-163632-1.htm Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:36:00 GMT When indicted war criminals want to travel, who do they call? The United Nations, it seems.

Last week, the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs convened a meeting of donors, seeking to raise $7.7 million to re-energise peace talks between the Ugandan government and leaders of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), who have been indicted by the U.N.-affiliated International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes committed during a brutal, two-decade insurgency in northern Uganda.

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]]> http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/35127/2007/06/14-091839-1.htm http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/35127/2007/06/14-091839-1.htm Sat, 14 Jul 2007 09:18:00 GMT "Even if a nuclear bomb explodes in Mogadishu, the conference will happen as scheduled," the president of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG), Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, has been quoted saying. He's talking about the National Reconciliation Congress slated to begin on July 15, after being postponed twice.

One man's hubris is another's strong leadership.

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