andy moore

Saw Juno in my favourite little cinema tonight.

Great film.

See it.

NB - I was going to post a link to the trailer, but could only find the US version, which does the film NO credit. Instead, go to www.junomovie.co.uk and watch the ‘video’ there.

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Republic of Moldova President Vladimir Voronin opposes the idea that his country could adopt the Romanian language or could give up its Communist past just for the sake of simplifying the European integration. His declaration is a reaction to the statements made by Romania’s representative at the Munich conference on global security issues.

Voronin said that in a 2004 referendum, 84% of the population wanted to keep the historic name of the Moldovan Republic. He emphasized that in one year, Moldova will celebrate 650 years of existence while Romanian only 170.

Even though he admitted that both languages are identical, he argued that each country has the right to name it as it considers best.

» source: hotnews.ro

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 died in the post-election violence.

Richard Dowden, director of the Royal African Society, spoke to the BBC about the parallels that some are drawing with what happened in Rwanda where such divisions ended in the 1994 genocide and the killing of some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

» read more (BBC)

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 Rwanda Genocide Memorial Centre in Kigali Tuesday at the start of his two day visit.

» read more (allAfrica.com)

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 has erupted in the aftermath of last month’s flawed elections in Kenya.

“It might not be fashionable and right for the armies to get involved in such a political situation. But in situations where institutions have lost control, I wouldn’t mind such a solution,” he said in an interview in Kigali with Reuters on the eve of an African Union summit in Addis Ababa.

» read more (Financial Times)