International Business News - RWA http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif The former president of Liberia is on trial. A vice president of Congo is in custody. The former leaders of Cambodia are in the dock. And a key figure in the Bosnia war is now in custody. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080722/karadzic-arrest-puts-spotlight-on-new-tribunals.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:26:08 EDT A South African judge who was the first black woman to serve on her country's highest court will be the next U.N. human rights commissioner, diplomatic and U.N. officials said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080718/south-african-to-be-named-un-human-rights-chief.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:55:05 EDT With an arrest warrant pending against Sudan's president, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said Thursday he was focusing on another war crime case in Darfur involving two suspected rebel commanders allegedly directing attacks against peacekeepers. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080718/prosecutor-looks-at-3rd-war-crimes-case-in-darfur.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:28:20 EDT The prosecutor for the International Criminal Court sought an arrest warrant Monday for Sudan's president on charges of waging a campaign of genocide and rape in Darfur, a high-risk strategy that could backfire against the people in the war-torn desert region. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/91068-aptopix-mideast-sudan-darfur.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080714/prosecutor-to-unveil-darfur-case-seek-warrant.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080714/prosecutor-to-unveil-darfur-case-seek-warrant.htm Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:53:54 EDT Cindy McCain and Mike Huckabee are among a bipartisan group headed to Rwanda next week to see how U.S. investments have helped some of the world's poorest people and what steps the next president can take to fight global poverty. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/cindy-mccain-huckabee-to-travel-to-rwanda.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:33:45 EDT The U.N.-African Union force in Sudan was grappling Thursday with what steps to take after an ambush by heavily armed fighters that killed seven peacekeepers and wounded 19 others on patrol in Darfur. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/darfur-rebels-condemn-attack-on-un-au.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:17:58 EDT United Nations officials say seven peacekeepers from a joint U.N.-African Union force have been killed and 22 wounded in an attack in Sudan's Darfur region. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080709/un-says-7-darfur-peacekeepers-killed-in-ambush.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:37:34 EDT Unidentified gunmen ambushed a vehicle belonging to an international conservation group in an eastern Congo gorilla reserve, killing two people and wounding three others, officials and a U.N.-funded radio station said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080709/2-die-as-vehicle-ambushed-in-congo-gorilla-reserve.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:28:20 EDT A Rwandan accused of involvement in his country's 1994 genocide has been arrested in Frankfurt, and German authorities are considering his extradition to Rwanda, a prosecutor said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080709/rwandan-accused-in-genocide-is-arrested-in-germany.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:23:01 EDT About 200 gunmen on horseback and in SUVs launched a brazen attack on international peacekeepers in Darfur, killing seven in the deadliest strike against the under-equipped and understaffed mission since it deployed, the U.N. said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/88789-sudan-darfur.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080709/report-5-darfur-peacekeepers-killed-17-missing.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080709/report-5-darfur-peacekeepers-killed-17-missing.htm Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:59:22 EDT Roaming bands of government supporters heckled, harassed or threatened people into voting in a runoff election Friday in which President Robert Mugabe was the only candidate, ensuring he will remain in power despite international condemnation of the balloting as a sham. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/81449-zimbabwe-elections.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080627/zimbabwean-runoff-gets-off-to-slow-start.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080627/zimbabwean-runoff-gets-off-to-slow-start.htm Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:34:45 EDT "Nightline" will focus on the humanitarian crisis in the Congo with the help of an unusual correspondent--Ben Affleck. The 35-year-old actor took a "Nightline" crew on his recent fact-finding mission to Africa with the goal of spreading the word on a story that gets relatively little notice in the United States. His essay airs 11:35 p.m. Thursday on ABC. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/79158-tv-nightline-affleck.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080625/ben-affleck-goes-to-congo-for-nightline.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080625/ben-affleck-goes-to-congo-for-nightline.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:40:23 EDT Despite an intensive $4 billion drive to protect U.S. embassies, at least 150 American missions abroad fall short of security standards put in place after deadly bombings, The Associated Press has learned. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/77051-embassies-at-risk.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080622/billions-more-needed-to-secure-us-embassies.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080622/billions-more-needed-to-secure-us-embassies.htm Sun, 22 Jun 2008 12:47:35 EDT Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out of Zimbabwe's violence-wracked presidential runoff Sunday, declaring that the election was no longer credible and the loss of life among his supporters was simply too high. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/77266-aptopix-zimbabwe-elections.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080622/zimbabwe-militants-occupy-site-of-opposition-rally.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080622/zimbabwe-militants-occupy-site-of-opposition-rally.htm Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:59:53 EDT Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged Monday to help Sierra Leone court private investment aimed at restoring the country's war-wrecked infrastructure and developing its agriculture and tourism industries. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080609/britains-blair-to-push-investment-in-sierra-leone.htm Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:34:53 EDT The U.N. Security Council renewed a push for civilian rule in Congo's militia-plagued east on Sunday as efforts continue to disarm rebel groups and finally restore peace to the ravaged region. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080608/un-pushes-peace-effort-in-congos-violent-east.htm Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:13:16 EDT The U.N. Security Council on Saturday praised Congolese President Joseph Kabila's vision for the country while urging a key rebel group to disarm and participate in talks to bring peace to the war-ravaged region. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080607/un-urges-rebel-group-in-congo-to-disarm.htm Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:36:54 EDT Sitting underneath the bright murals at a clinic, 22-year-old Elijah Ochanda gestures at his shorts and explains: "When they remove this thing, it makes you safer." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080524/male-circumcision-gains-ground-as-anti-aids-weapon.htm Sat, 24 May 2008 12:52:01 EDT France will push for a United Nations resolution authorizing the delivery of aid to Myanmar's cyclone survivors "by all means necessary" if pressure from the U.N. chief and neighboring countries doesn't work, France's U.N. ambassador said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/53269-un-myanmar-ban.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080523/france-pushes-un-on-myanmar-aid.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080523/france-pushes-un-on-myanmar-aid.htm Fri, 23 May 2008 02:08:24 EDT The One Laptop Per Child project is about to find out whether Microsoft Corp., a rival the nonprofit group once derided, is the solution to its problems in spreading inexpensive portable computers to schoolchildren. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/46737-hundred-dollar-laptop-microsoft.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/100-laptop-nonprofit-now-teamed-with-microsoft.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080516/100-laptop-nonprofit-now-teamed-with-microsoft.htm Fri, 16 May 2008 06:53:21 EDT