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Al-Shabaab fighters have vowed to seize arms from AU peacekeepers in Mogadishu if their mandate is changed.
Government is expected to realign arms manufacturer Denel and put it back under the control of the Department of Defence and Military Veterans.
The Department of Defence and Military Veterans is to embark on a policy review to include South Africa's obligations to peace and security and humanitarian assistances outside its borders.
The Gambia Armed Forces, in partnership with the US embassy in Banjul, yesterday, began a two-day HIV/AIDS sensitization seminar for personnel of The Gambia navy.
As the fresh crisis which engulfed Okene in Kogi State escalates, armed soldiers from the Chari Maigumeri Barracks in Lokoja were yesterday drafted to the area to restore peace following the inability of mobile policemen to bring the crisis under control.
Nigeria was yesterday thrown into grief as two of her illustrious sons who in their various callings had contributed in no small measure towards the development of the nation died of old age and cadiac arrest.
A TOTAL of sh1.7b has been earmarked to compensate people whose body parts were cut-off by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
United Nations-backed Congolese armed forces conducting intensified military operations in eastern and northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have failed to protect civilians from brutal rebel retaliatory attacks and instead are themselves attacking and raping Congolese civilians, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday.
The outgoing United States Ambassador to Uganda, Mr Steven Browning, has said he is disappointed by the government's slow pace of rebuilding the north, which has suffered a two-decade war.
Uganda's rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) will be sending two more military commanders to the Juba peace talks in South Sudan.
United Nations-backed Congolese armed forces conducting intensified military operations in eastern and northern Democratic Republic of Congo have failed to protect civilians from brutal rebel retaliatory attacks and instead are themselves attacking and raping Congolese civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. The attacks on civilians from all sides have resulted in a significant increase in human ...
The UPDF 3rd Division operations and training officer has urged Kenyan militias to gun down any armed Karimojong who enters their territory. Col. Mike Ondoga said this would curb cross-border cattle raids.
Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) has evolved over time. It has now positioned itself as one of the most reliable contributors to the global and regional peacekeeping initiatives.
The National Commission for Disarmament of citizens illegally owning fire-arms collected throughout the country 56,655 weapons, over 36,000 bullets magazines and 202.771 ammunitions, in the ambit of the process of disarming the civil population.
Kenyans continue losing millions to fraudsters during the military recruitment exercises, the Department of Defence has said.
More Ethiopian troops with armed vehicles have reached near Beledweyn town in central Somalia as Ethiopia said that it does not plan to send troops into Somalia, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
Babucarr Jatta, (alias Michael Jatta), a military personnel who was charged with drug trafficking by the National Drug Enforcement Agency was on the 23rd day of June 2009 acquitted and discharged by Principal Magistrate Edrisa Mbye at the Banjul Magistrate's Court.
Soldiers have evicted over 20 families in Kitala village, Katabi Sub-county on Entebbe Road.
House of Representatives yesterday directed the Federal Government to pay one billion naira to Odioma Community, Bayelsa State, to compensate for invasion of the community by the Joint Military Task Force in 2005.
Rwanda Defense Forces' (RDF) Maj. Gen. Emmanuel Karenzi Karake was in July 2007 named as Deputy Force Commander of the hybrid UN-AU under the United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID).
Two separate attacks on Congolese army positions by the FDLR were recently repulsed, particularly June 30, as the Congolese celebrated Independence Day.
Federal Government's offer of amnesty to Niger Delta militants has suffered yet another setback as the Joint Task Force (JTF), the military body responsible for security in the oil-producing region, has stopped attempts by displaced persons to return to their villages.
A number of armed rebel movements in Darfur say they are ready to resume peace talks with the Sudanese Government, the African Union-United Nations official tasked with promoting dialogue between the two sides says.
At the age of 27, Lily Atong has lived most of her life as a captive and wife of Joseph Kony, the enigmatic and rarely seen leader of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army, LRA.
Although strides have been made in implementing the peace process in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) - ending the deadly conflict there between the Government and a militia - the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region said today that progress remains slow.
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