South Sudan became an independent nation in July, and it’s looking for business. An international conference in Washington Wednesday and Thursday is focusing on the new country in Africa and featuring speeches from President Salva Kiir and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. But a South Sudanese American living in Washington says there’s much more [...]
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December 16, 2011
December 16, 2011
Congo Supreme Court Hears Election Challenge
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Supreme Court has begun hearing a lawsuit seeking to annul the presidential election that returned incumbent Joseph Kabila to power. Opposition candidate Vital Kamerhe, who finished third in the vote, filed the lawsuit, in which he claims the poll was rigged in favor of Kabila. Kamerhe, who was present [...]
December 13, 2011
Russia’s Prokhorov to Challenge Putin in Presidential Election
Russian tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov says he will run against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in a presidential election next March, in the latest challenge to the Russian leader. Prokhorov, who also owns the U.S. basketball team the New Jersey Nets, said Monday his decision to compete in the election is the most important of his life. [...]
December 13, 2011
East Congo Opposition to Protest Kabila Election
Opposition leaders in eastern Congo are planning to protest the disputed re-election of President Joseph Kabila beginning Tuesday morning. And while organizers say the protests will be peaceful, some opposition supporters say they fear rallies will spark violence. Protesters around the world, and in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, have been holding rallies since before the [...]
December 13, 2011
Occupy Protesters Target US, Canadian Ports
Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters blocked gates Monday at some of the West Coast’s busiest ports in the U.S. and Canada, as part of a nearly three-month-old movement against what they say is corporate greed. The protests caused a partial shut down of operations at some of the terminals in Oakland, California, and Portland, Oregon. [...]
December 11, 2011
December 11, 2011
Observers Question Integrity of DRC Vote
Electoral observers from the U.S.-based Carter Center say presidential results in the Democratic Republic of Congo were “mismanaged,” compromising the integrity of a vote that gave President Joseph Kabila another five years in power. The leading opposition candidate is rejecting the poll. Results announced by Congo’s electoral commission show the long-time opposition candidate Etienne Tshisekedi [...]
December 9, 2011
Kabila Named Winner of DRC Election; Tshisekedi Rejects Results
Electoral officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo say President Joseph Kabila has won re-election in a vote marred by violence and delays. Our correspondent reports from Kinshasa that the president’s leading opponent is rejecting those results and says he is the country’s new president. Supporters of President Kabila cheered his re-election outside the headquarters [...]
December 9, 2011
Millions of drivers won’t hang up, study shows
Washington (CNN) — Your eyes aren’t deceiving you. A federal study says one in 20 drivers observed at any given moment is holding a mobile phone to his or her ear, and that almost one in 100 can be observed sending a text message or otherwise manipulating a digital device. At the typical daylight moment, [...]
December 8, 2011
Traffic deaths trended down again in 2010, says DOT
Washington (CNN) — Some 32,885 people died on the nation’s roadways in 2010 — a number that, while slightly higher than preliminary figures released in April, shows the downward trend in traffic deaths is continuing, now reaching low levels not seen since 1949, the U.S. Department of Transportation reported Thursday. The decline came despite the [...]
December 7, 2011
Congo Residents Apprehensive While Awaiting Election Results
Tensions are rising in the Democratic Republic of Congo as returns from last week’s presidential election trickle in. Incumbent President Joseph Kabila is still expected to win, having taken 46 percent of the vote with more than two-thirds of the count complete. At the Goma office for Etienne Tshisekedi, Kabila’s main rival in the presidential [...]
December 7, 2011
Obama: Economic Fairness is ‘The Defining Issue of Our Time’
President Barack Obama says restoring America’s prosperity and economic fairness is the defining issue of our time. The president went to the Midwestern state of Kansas Tuesday to restate his economic goals. In a nearly hour-long speech, President Obama stressed the importance of reforming the nation’s economy to give middle class Americans what he called [...]
December 7, 2011
Egypt’s Islamists Compete for Votes in Runoff Elections
Egypt is holding a second day of runoff elections for the national parliament, with rival Islamist parties engaging in increasingly heated competition for votes in the country’s two largest cities and seven other provinces. Voting for the 52 individual seats in Cairo, Alexandria and the other provinces began Monday and was due to end Tuesday. [...]
December 6, 2011
Report: Rich, Poor Gap Widens in Most Countries
The gap between rich and poor has grown in most of the world’s major economies, and now stands at its highest level in 30 years. A report released Monday by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a research and policy group that has 34 member countries, calls for governments to act quickly [...]