Catholic bishops in Africa have denounced Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, and have called on South African leaders to stop supporting him or be “complicit in passive genocide,” according to the International Herald Tribune. The bishops called for Mugabe to step…
As was expected, President George W. Bush commuted the sentences of two border patrol guards, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who had been sentenced to more than 10 years in jail for seriously wounding a suspected drug runner. They now are…
Fleeing the fighting outside Goma, North Kivu province of Congo (Walter Astrada/AFP/Getty Images)
For decades, much of the Western world has gone about its affairs without giving much thought to Africa.
How many Americans know, much less care, that since 1988, wars and…
