Mwai Kibaki, an ethnic Kikuyu, was declared the winner of Kenya’s disputed presidential poll in December to the anger of supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga, who is from the Luo community. The fallout has fuelled ethnic tensions in the country which has more than 40 ethnic groups – and up to 900 people have …
The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon has said that the world should never witness any genocide, adding that the United Nations and the international community is haunted by the 1994 mass killings in Rwanda. “The Rwandan genocide will haunt the UN and the international community for generations,” he remarked after touring the …
Paul Kagame, whose rebel army took power in Rwanda 13 years ago putting a halt to genocide, came close yesterday to calling for a military coup in neighbouring Kenya. In remarks unprecedented for an African leader, Mr Kagame, now president of Rwanda, said army intervention might be the only way to curtail the violence that …
InterVarsity/USA staff at Staff Conference 08 were given the opportunity to participate in an offering for the Rwanda conference, and challenged with the goal of raising $30,000. The offering would go to cover all remaining outstanding costs of the conference as well as fund student movement outreaches to overcome racial and ethnic strife in Rwanda …
I just received news from two friends and colleagues in Kenya regarding the situation there. Dear Andy, We greatly appreciate the prayers for our country. Its difficult to say how things are because they keep on changing daily. For example there has been a wave of escalation of violence in the last three days in …
Sermon notes from Sunday 13 January // Genesis 39 Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife How would society react to a story like this one today – what would be their attitude to the issues raised? Whilst this chapter looks particularly at Joseph’s response to sexual temptation, we ought to also consider a wide variety of other …
Tony Blair is widening his post-premiership portfolio by becoming an unpaid adviser to the Rwandan government of President Kagame. In the first indication of the kind of work Blair would like to undertake in Africa, he has despatched a three-strong team to Rwanda to see how he will be able to help build the capacity …
November 20, 2007 The applause drifts gently across the ground as bat strikes ball and the figures in whites make their dash for the crease. A boy leans on his bicycle on the edge of the outfield to take in the scene and catch up on the score. It may sound like any village on …
Spent some of this evening talking about C.S. Lewis and John Bunyan – great writers who understood how to engage their audience with big ideas using creative narrative. I’m currently reading Lewis’ Screwtape Letters, and wish there were more writers like him around today. Some of the things I most appreciate about C.S. Lewis: his …
Sermon notes from Sunday 6 January 2008 // Genesis 37 Joseph came from a pretty dysfunctional family. His siblings were the product of four different mothers, one of whom was dead, another hated, and two that were not properly married to the father. Dysfunctional families were not – and are not – something new. You …
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