International

BOARD members of the Elections Cameroon (Elecam) are in the field across the country for a series of sensitization meetings with elections stake holders on the soon to be introduced biometric system of registration.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday held his first official campaign rallies in Columbus, Ohio and Richmond, Virginia, delivering two almost identical fiery speeches attacking Republican policies and pledging to bring the country forward if he is re-elected.

Kenya’s military has dismissed as untrue a report by the U.S.-based human rights group which accused its soldiers of committing widespread rights abuses against ethnic Somalis in the northern frontier.

The Burundian government has denounced the 2011 report of Human Rights Watch (HRW), saying the “biased” report is nothing but “a declaration of war” to the Burundian people, the Burundian government said in a declaration on Saturday.