Now that the ruckus has subsided over the Nobel Prize for Peace to Barack Obama, the time has come to examine an issue largely overlooked in recent years.

Just weeks after the arrest of a top accused of planning, executing and participating in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the Italian police arrested another suspect. A priest, this time. The man is accused of ordering for the deaths of 80 students aged 12-20.

Idelphonse Nizeyimana, a top suspect accused of planning, executing and participating in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, pleaded not guilty at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania.

Fifteen years after Rwanda was ravaged by one of the most gruesome genocides in history, one of the brains behind the atrocities has been detained in a UN detention facility in Arusha, Tanzania, home of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged world leaders to take action on climate change and save the planet.

Despite readily available vaccines, death rate of sickle-cell anemia in African children remains to be a growing concern, researchers said Thursday.

Gregoire Ndahimana, who is a suspect in the Rwandan genocide, has been arrested in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

When I visited the World Refugee Day celebration that was held in Minneapolis on June 20, one of the people I met was Therese Gales, the Public Affairs Manager with the American Refugee Committee (ARC).

Around the world children are suffering from direct consequences of war. They find themselves alone and vulnerable without their families or being directly recruited as a child soldier.

Land battles are expected to escalate in at least 30 districts in oil-rich Uganda, which also is the African country with the world's third-highest population growth. A 'time-bomb in waiting', warns a local USAID-funded non-governmental organisation.