Congo-Kinshasa: Kony Rebels Burn Hundreds in Church

Kampala — Hundreds of civilians were on Saturday burnt to death in a church by the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels.The rebels set ablaze a church called Bima in the Democratic Republic of Congo at midnight as the faithful prayed.It is not yet known how many Christians were in the church at the time, according to Radio Okapi, a UN radio in Congo.In an indescribably savage manner, the rebels then attacked several homesteads, axing, cutting, slitting throats and crushing skulls with wooden bats and axes.The massacre occurred in the town of Tora and Libombi and two nearby mining communities located 130km from Dungu, the military base of operation lightning thunder.

Africa: Obama And U.S. Policy Towards Africa

As Obama takes over the presidency of the United States, Horace Campbell contextualizes an Obama presidency in the realities of Africa and the ongoing global finance crisis. He argues that “capitalism should not be reconstituted and rebuilt on the backs and bodies of Africans.” For Campbell, the crisis is not simply a cyclical crisis of capitalism; it is a fundamental shift in the global political and economic order. In light of this fast changing world, Campbell is also interested in the possibilities and our responsibilities in bringing about change in and for Africa.