New Church rule from the Vatican to the members of the Anglicans Church.

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Uganda King

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check below site out for the new king in Uganda.
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Bantu-Charles.

Special AU Summit IN Uganda

A Special AU summit on refugees, returnees and internally displaced peoples opens in Kampala today.

Under the theme “African Union; addressing the challenge of forced displacement in Africa”, the summit will be held at the Commonwealth Resort in Munyonyo.

The heads of state summit that begins Thursday, will be opened by the chairman of the African Union, Col. Muammar Gadaffi.

Over 600 delegates from Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Ghana, Mozambique, Somalia, DRC, Sudan, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana and Tanzania are expected to attend today’s opening session.

Foreign affairs ministry spokesperson Ambassador Guma Muganda said a full list of attending presidents was expected today.

By press time, The New Vision had learnt that Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Rwandan premier Bernard Makuza and former South African president Nelson Mandela’s wife Graca Machel, had confirmed participation. Ministers of foreign affairs and relief and disaster preparedness are also expected at the meeting.

Sudanese president Omar el Bashir has been invited, however, by yesterday, he had not yet confirmed attendance.
The Minister of State for Disaster Preparedness, Musa Ecweru, said the summit would tackle the causes of internal displacement of people in Africa.
The continent is estimated to have 17 million internally displaced people and refugees.

The summit is expected to find solutions to curb the growing number of refugees and displaced people in Africa.
Today’s session will be addressed by the chairperson of the executive council, the commissioner for political affairs and Ugandan government representative.

The session will consider the 2008 report of the meeting of ministers in charge of forced displacement issues, consider the draft AU convention for the protection and assistance of IDPs, and draft the agenda for the heads of state.

Disaster preparedness minister Tarsis Kabwegyere said Uganda was chosen to host the summit because it has been handling issues of human displacement since the Second World War when the country hosted the Polish refugees at Mpumudde in Mukono district.

“Since then, Uganda has been hosting refugees from her neighbouring countries and beyond,” Kabwegyere said.
Besides refugees from neighbouring countries, he added, Uganda has also been handling internal displacements since 1971 following the military coup by Idi Amin.

Between 1981 and 1986, the Luweero war displaced over 500,000 people and shortly after, the Lord’s Resistance Army rebellion displaced more people in the north during the last 20 years, Kabwegyere said.

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees external relations officer in Uganda, Needa Jehu-Hoya, the country has 143,418 refugees and asylum seekers, most of them from Sudan, DR Congo, Rwanda, Somalia, Burundi, Eritrea and Kenya .
Of these, 30,508 are Sudanese, 72,595 Congolese and 17,220 Rwandans, Jehu-Hoya said.

A total of 10,603 are from Somalia, 4,488 from Burundi and 4,100 from Eritrea.

There are also 2,337 Kenyans, while another 1,567 are from other countries.
The UN report adds that 276,000 are living in refugee settlements around the country, while 218,300 are in transit sites.

By September this year, 175,546 Sudanese and 2,498 Rwandans had been repatriated back to their countries.
Most of the refugees in Uganda cite persecution and discrimination on account of ethnicity, political affiliation and civil strife back in their home countries.

Somalia are join insurgents in their land in a big number.

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NAIROBI

An American man has been arrested in northern Kenya while trying to enter an area of Somalia controlled by Islamist insurgents, police and residents said yesterday.

Lawless Somalia is viewed by the international community as a breeding ground for al Qaeda-linked groups which have been fighting the UN-backed administration of President Sheikh Shariff Ahmed.

A witness told Reuters that the man was arrested on Sunday by police manning the immigration office at the border town of Liboi in Kenya’s North Eastern province. He was on his way to Qoqani in southern Somalia without any security escort.

“The suspect is being transported to the provincial police headquarters for questioning,” a police officer said.

The police thought the man’s willingness to enter the conflict-torn nation where foreigners are routinely kidnapped for huge ransoms was puzzling, the witness added.

Qoqani is controlled by the al Shabaab rebel group which the US says is al Qaeda’s proxy in Somalia.

The man had said he was a Muslim and denied any link to Islamic radicals who make up the bulk of fighters in Somalia, the witness said.

Western nations are increasingly concerned about the radicalisation of Somali youth living in their countries. Some have returned to Somalia to boost the insurgents’ ranks.

Also on Sunday, police at the Kenyan coast arrested seven Somalis on suspicion of involvement in unlawful activities in Somalia, before releasing some of them.

“We are investigating their possible connection to militia groups in Somalia,” said a police officer who was involved in the arrests at the resort town of Malindi.

“We are vigilant because the situation in Somalia is not very good and our borders, which are highly porous, could be an added advantage to the militia groups.”

Another 1947 sellout.

Another 1947 Sellout Juba All Political Parties Conference

BY: Isaiah Abraham, JUBA

OCT 3/2009, SSN; The Juba conference that has brought in more than twenty political parties, mainly from the North, has come and gone, but confusion swirls around on what this meeting really achieved or will achieve as far as the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) is concerned.

To the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and participants, the Conference is a reconciliation gesture among political parties in the countries and a test of political waters, whether it's in the interest of the party to enter into an alliance with any or all the political parties for possible removal of the National Congress Party (NCP), or go it alone in the upcoming general elections.

Who was excluded sends a different bad signal, more of 'To others including this author, the Conference isn't in the interest of the CPA (read Referendum and the border demarcation) , the Darfur, the elections issues or any other burning issue (s) between the two peace partners, because of the following reasons: The Conference false start, a situation in which the NCP was sidelined. To outsiders even the NCP, this is just a mere 'maumara' against the NCP by the organizers (SPLM).

You might disagree but this where we got it just off wrong. How do we intend to pass our resolutions without the blessing of the NCP party; whether you like this party or not, they are in power and in all partners in the CPA.

Second, on the same argument is the position of the host party (SPLM). The SPLM isn't in the opposition, but equal partner with the NCP, what will this mean to their position in the government when they play the double standard roles? In another word, there are common positions by the government and once that is done, the others are required to toe, where will this lead the SPLM in the cabinet. Take for example the Darfur peace process in Doha.

The other issue is the talks on referendum modalities, border demarcation, and others (not census, there is no justification to quarrel there). The move by the SPLM will jeopardize those talks as the two sides positions might tighten, and if that is done, even the election we are talking about won't be there.

The two sides confrontation isn't good for peace, even the Darfur. Referendum discussion is on the right track given the President last night assurances and the few details we all know. This question is begging before one could finish the issues we are talking about; why the hurry to shop for another partner when the NCP has shown it again and again that they are serious, not just in rhetoric's but in deeds?

The forth argument is that Juba Conference will embolden other opposition forces internally and externally to stage a change through a coup. We know what color these parties have and therefore very awkward for the SPLM to stand on the way- the cause of the people of Southern Sudan, just months away.

Our Southern Political forces did an excellent job to walk away, these men and women wasted tax payers money for nothing, when they know well it won't be implemented. If it is not an alliance and not anything closer to unity, what is it?

Again, if it isn't renegotiation of the CPA, what did these get the idea of confederation from? The SPLM lives in the illusion that pressuring Khartoum is the best option, but sometimes such scheme can backfire. Others have their own interests apart from the interest of the constituency the party purports to represent.

This is exactly what happened in the 1947, when our leaders were hoodwinked to abandon the Closed District practice in favor of unity with the North. It happened at the same period at the same city and reminiscently, the party (SPLM) should have avoided using that fateful title.

Malek Aggar and the group must stop preaching rubbish to our ears, no unity now and forever, understand!

Mr. Amum, what do you want to our people? Why do you personalized the Southern problem? What do you think you are doing? You want to do the same mistake like our leaders in that year (1947), aren't you? Who is by the way is following you? You are a great man and you shouldn't succumb to USA unrealistic strategies to change sovereign governments.

Fortunately, the new Obama diplomatic script against the NCP is working- its good for peace. Please cease from those clandestine secret activities. The NCP is real, they will deliver! Others won't. They are political turncoats and busybodies who want to ride on the SPLM back.

Even the current international pressure, a situation where a head of state is opprobriously and malignly charged by a US proxy so-called crusaders against impunity, could have bother you. The SPLM then ought to stand with the NCP at this critical time and forget banking on foreign forces and utopians.

Talking alone never helps others, and we don't need rude shocks of our lives. We have been saying this many times. If for the vision, the New Sudan vision has been clarified and the CPA has offered that answer through the people. It's not anymore in the court yard of the politicians.

My plea is for the SPLM to be conscious of people's will and stop being others, but themselves. If you boycott the election, we will hold you accountable; the election is a mandatory and you got to go for it. Don't apply any exit ploy here, you are in partnership until 2011

Sudan`s Ruling.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's ruling party nominated President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for re-election on Saturday despite an International Criminal Court warrant to arrest him for war crimes.

The Hague-based court says the government of Bashir, who seized power in a 1989 military coup with Islamist backing, committed crimes against humanity while fighting mostly non-Arab rebels in Darfur.

The multi-party elections set for April 2010 will be the first in Africa's largest country in 24 years.

"The National Congress Party's General Conference has decided to support the nomination of Omar Hassan al-Bashir as (our) candidate for the presidential elections in 2010," the closing communique of the party conference, seen by Reuters, said.

Since the arrest warrant was issued last year, Bashir has received full backing from his party, which dominates the central government. He has travelled to countries that support him, in defiance of The Hague-based court.

The United Nations says some 300,000 people have died in Darfur, with more than 2 million driven from their homes in violence Washington describes as genocide. Khartoum rejects that description and puts the death toll at 10,000.

Bashir signed a north-south peace deal in 2005 ending another decades-long civil war fought over ideology, ethnicity, religion and oil which killed 2 million people. That deal enshrined democratic transformation and set the stage for the April vote.

The NCP is the first major political party to officially nominate a candidate for president.

On Wednesday more than 20 Sudanese parties, along with the NCP's partners in peace the former southern rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), threatened to boycott the vote if the NCP did not push through promised reforms in two months.

These include legislation to ensure the independence of the media and reform the powerful national security forces.

Parliament opens this week and must pass legislation delayed by wrangling over content and foot-dragging by Bashir's party.

Bashir told the closing session of the party conference that he was "committed to free and fair elections".

Souther Sudan Groups Army

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Fourteen people have been killed in fighting within the ranks of south Sudan's army, an official said on Saturday.
The bloodshed pitted the Unity State governor's bodyguards against those of the deputy of south Sudan's army, state information minister Andrew Kuong said.

An argument on Friday erupted in gunfire then escalated into clashes in a residential area in which eight soldiers and six civilians were killed. At least 10 people were wounded.

Analysts said the violence was a sign of internal rivalries within the former southern rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) which took over government following a peace agreement between the north and the oil-producing south in 2005.

The deal decentralised power in the mainly Christian and animist south and gave it a vote in 2011 on secession.

Violence in the south has risen this year, with the United Nation's estimating that 1,200 people have been killed.

Some southerners blame their former foes in Khartoum, accusing them of arming militias before elections set for next year. Others blame the weak government's failure to secure the south, which is plagued by internal and tribal rivalries.

Vatican City news.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict opened a synod of Roman Catholic bishops on Africa by denouncing the West's materialism and lack of moral values, which he said were contaminating the world's poorest continent like "toxic waste".
In his homily, the Pope compared Africa, which he visited earlier this year, to a spiritual "lung" at risk of being attacked by what he called the viruses of materialism and religious fundamentalism.

"There is absolutely no doubt that the so-called 'First' World has exported up to now and continues to export its spiritual toxic waste that contaminates the peoples of other continents, particularly those of Africa," he said.

"In this sense colonialism, which is over at a political level, has never really entirely come to an end."

Lamenting the exploitation of Africa's vast resources, the pope also spoke out against religious fundamentalism, which he said was mixed with political and economic interests.

"Groups who follow various religious creeds are spreading throughout the continent of Africa ...teaching and practicing not love and respect for freedom, but intolerance and violence."

In the 20th century, Africa's Catholic population shot up from about 2 million in 1900 to about 140 million in 2000, making the continent ever more important to the Vatican as the number of practicing Catholics in the developed world declines.

In his Angelus blessing, the Pope called for political dialogue in Guinea, where at least 157 people were killed in a bloody crackdown on street protesters on Monday.

New Sudan Refinery center.

By Opheera McDoom

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - South Sudan's semi-autonomous government has approved plans to build a debut, $2 billion oil refinery, the southern energy minister said on Sunday, a step toward boosting its oil infrastructure ahead of a referendum on secession.

Sudan, emerging from decades of north-south civil war, produces more than 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude from fields mostly in the landlocked south. But the refineries and pipelines are in the north, giving Khartoum control of the precious commodity.

"The government of south Sudan is planning to make a refinery (in) Akon, Warap state (which) will serve all the seven states west of the Nile," Southern Energy Minister John Luk told Reuters in an interview.

"It will take about a maximum of 36 months (to build). It will cost around $2 billion," he said. It would take crude from the oil fields in Unity state.

Luk said an Italian company was working on the details and the tender to build the 50,000 barrels per day capacity refinery would be open to Sudanese and international companies "very soon."

Sudan's discovery of oil helped reignite the war, which has raged on and off since 1955, primarily over issues of ideology, religion and ethnicity, leaving 2 million people dead.

A 2005 peace deal granted a new southern government wide-reaching powers, shared out the oil wealth and gave the south a key vote on secession in 2011.

Oil revenues account for more than 90 percent of south Sudan's budget and about half of Khartoum's yearly income. Oil refineries in the south would mean less need for cooperation with the north if the south were to secede.

Luk said the refinery would be a joint venture between south Sudan's state oil company Nilepet and the company that won the bid.

Some of the oil would be exported to neighbouring countries as south Sudan's current consumption was small.

Luk said the government also planned a second refinery to service the heavier Dar Blend crude fields in the Upper Nile region but that project would wait until after the referendum.

The south has been plagued by tribal violence which has escalated this year, killing at least 1,200 people, which could dissuade potential investors. Luk said the site planned for the refinery was secure.