/News/World/-/688340/688340/-/h37441z/-/index.html http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Sierra+Leone+President+warns++reckless+journalists+/-/688340/1412180/-/t57u4jz/-/index.html Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma is threatening tough measures against the media in what is a departure from his traditionally tolerant bearing. 2012-05-23T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/China+to+buy+over+2+500+aircraft/-/688340/1412192/-/kd7560/-/index.html Chinese clients will purchase around 2,500 aircraft in the 2011-2015 period, the head of the Civil Aviation Administration of China has predicted. 2012-05-23T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Pakistani+jailed+for+33+years+over+bin+Laden+hunt++officials/-/688340/1412194/-/mnq845/-/index.html A Pakistani surgeon recruited by the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden was on Wednesday sentenced to 33 years in prison for treason, officials said. 2012-05-23T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Kenya+secures+Sh8bn+China+grant+to+fight+terror/-/688340/1412154/-/gbevyk/-/index.html Kenya has secured a grant of Sh8.3 billion from China for installation of security surveillance cameras as it steps up the war on terror. 2012-05-23T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Lawsuits+pile+up+over+Facebook+IPO/-/688340/1412172/-/gm354qz/-/index.html Lawsuits piled up Wednesday against Facebook, its underwriters and the Nasdaq exchange as angry investors sought to recover losses from the company's flop $16 billion IPO. 2012-05-23T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Egyptians+vote+for+Mubarak+successor+in+historic+poll/-/688340/1412166/-/sv1mryz/-/index.html Egyptians voted Wednesday in the country's first free presidential elections, with Islamists and secularists vying for power with competing visions of an Egypt liberated of ousted president Hosni Mubarak's iron grip. 2012-05-23T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Few+know+the+EAC+and+what+it+stands+for++study/-/688340/1412184/-/e8v8v7z/-/index.html Many Tanzanians, including small and medium entrepreneurs, are not aware of the East African Community (EAC) and what it has to offer, a survey has indicated. The problem is more acute in the southern highland regions, where farmers and crop traders have little information on markets for their produce. 2012-05-23T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Sudan++S+Sudan+to+set+peace+talks+date++this+week+++Mbeki/-/688340/1410862/-/3uom4e/-/index.html Sudan and South Sudan will this week set a date to restart face-to-face peace talks after bitter border conflict and the missing of a UN deadline, African Union mediator Thabo Mbeki said Monday. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Half+of+Britons+contemplating+revenge++says+poll/-/688340/1410868/-/7b0fsf/-/index.html More than half of the UK population are apparently contemplating revenge on a co-worker, boss or friend - mostly via Facebook or Twitter, a new poll has suggested. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Digital+media+brings+erotic+books+out+of+the+closet/-/688340/1410834/-/103jp3f/-/index.html It seems like yesterday that women's erotica was something to be read in private under the sheets. But no more. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Four+Kenyan+soldiers+wounded+in+landmine+blast/-/688340/1410826/-/vw23tpz/-/index.html Four Kenyan soldiers were wounded Monday when a landmine exploded beneath their vehicle in the northeastern Mandera region bordering war-torn Somalia, police said. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Support+pours+in+for+Zuma+over+vulgar+painting/-/688340/1410384/-/yda8w1z/-/index.html Support continued to pour in on Sunday for South African President Jacob Zuma over a vulgar painting that depicts him with his genitals exposed. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Mali+leader+attacked+as+anger+erupts+over+transition+deal/-/688340/1410394/-/92qdke/-/index.html Mali's transition president Diancounda Traore was hospitalised Monday after protesters angry at his appointment in a deal struck with the junta burst into his office and beat him. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Chinese+firm+leased+obsolete+aircraft+for+Air+Tanzania/-/688340/1410376/-/13utkkdz/-/index.html China Sonangol International Holdings Ltd, the Chinese government investment firm, has been plunged into fresh controversy following revelation that it procured obsolete aircraft for the Tanzanian flag carrier. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Strauss+Kahn+faces+US+gang+rape+investigation/-/688340/1410386/-/15dbj6ez/-/index.html Disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's legal woes deepened Monday as French prosecutors opened a preliminary probe into accusations he took part in a gang rape in the US. 2012-05-21T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Virgin+finds+Kenya+market+too+hard/-/688340/1409894/-/9yel2k/-/index.html Virgin Atlantic’s decision to pull out of the Nairobi–London route has come as a shock to industry analysts and as a blessing to rivals like Kenya Airways who have been looking to increase their stake in that market. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Libyan+Lockerbie+bomber+Megrahi+dies/-/688340/1409896/-/mhuvnu/-/index.html Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, died on Sunday, almost three years after being freed from jail on compassionate grounds. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Pakistan+blocks+Twitter+over+Prophet+cartoons/-/688340/1409902/-/amok21/-/index.html Pakistan blocked Twitter on Sunday, saying the website had refused to remove posts promoting a Facebook competition involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Booming+Ghana+says+will+flush+out+illegal+immigrants/-/688340/1409910/-/s4ghxoz/-/index.html Ghana’s Immigration Service is getting tough with illegal immigrants drawn to the country by the robust economic growth and its stability and has now set a deadline to start flushing them out. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Facebook+s+Zuckerberg+changes+status++weds+Chan/-/688340/1409908/-/e8gugx/-/index.html Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg capped the week of a lifetime, changing his own status to married after wedding Priscilla Chan just a day after his company went public, he announced. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/A+new+Africa+or+just+hype+/-/688340/1409886/-/9yuep2/-/index.html Page through any Africa section in the global press and you’re likely to be introduced to tech-savvy graduates in hip offices, stock traders checking commodity prices on mobile phones, or African “lions” picking up where Asia’s “tigers” left off. By now everyone has heard that six of the world’s fastest growing economies are African. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Zimbabwe+s+Mugabe+says++tired+of+ruling+/-/688340/1409884/-/2bhcpmz/-/index.html Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe reportedly told a former minister in his government that he wants to retire but fears his party would disintegrate, an independent weekly said on Sunday. 2012-05-20T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Thousands+throng+Juba+liberation+celebrations/-/688340/1408858/-/7c93mw/-/index.html At least 6,000 people turned up at Dr John Garang mausoleum to celebrate the 29th anniversary of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement in Juba, capital of South Sudan. 2012-05-18T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Kenya+election+is+world+s+most+expensive/-/688340/1408894/-/1f7u6hz/-/index.html Estimates for the upcoming election presented by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) placing the cost at Sh36 billion translates to a cost per registered voter of Sh2,000 ($25), higher than any other on record. 2012-05-18T21:00:00Z http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/World/Nigeria++Senegal++Burkina+Faso+troops+head+to+G+Bissau/-/688340/1408868/-/5pm86wz/-/index.html A military force being deployed to stabilise Guinea-Bissau after an April 12 coup will be drawn from Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Senegal, the west African bloc ECOWAS said on Friday. 2012-05-18T21:00:00Z