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Two suspected militants were yesterday arrested by operatives of the Joint military Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta at Forcados in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State, while trying to blow up crude pipelines with explosives.
A confidential memo by the head of a delegation of the Kimberley Process, which recently wrapped up an investigation into the reports of violence and killings in Marange, has detailed the 'horrific violence' used by the army against civilians there.
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THE TOWNSHIP of Konongo in the Asante Akyem North District of the Ashanti Region was reportedly thrown into a state of anarchy yesterday morning, when some angry galamsey operators clashed with a joint military/police patrol team, resulting in the injuring of several people.
More and more of the thousands fleeing fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, are young men trying to avoid being conscripted into the various militias, locals told IRIN.
Six thousand remains of the 1994 Genocide victims were recently unearthed in a tin quarry in Nyakiriba village, Eastern Province.
Since 2006 when Brigadier General Bitrus Kwaji assumed the mantle of leadership of the Military Pensions Board, he has had to fight many battles from fake soldiers scheming to have their names in the pensions nominal roll, but also the issue of medically boarded soldiers with all its trepidations.
Ugandan troops in Mogadishu have been secretly selling guns and ammunition to Somalia's struggling Transitional Federal Government on behalf of the United States government, Daily Monitor can reveal.
The central act of the Angolan Navy (MGA)'s 33 years of existence takes place on Friday, in Lobito City's naval base, in the coastal Benguela Province.
Former Head of Legal Affairs in the Rwandan Army, Lt. Col Ephrem Setako accused the former United Nations Peace Keeping Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR) and the Gendarmes for not taking action to stop the Rwandan 1994 genocide.
The lawyers for former head of the Rwandan Army and the gendarmerie, prosecuted notably for genocide before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), in turn, asked on Thursday for the acquittal of their clients, reports Hirondelle Agency.
The trial of four military officers, including the former heads of Rwandan Army and Gendarmerie, finished on Friday at the end of the defendants' final arguments, reports Hirondelle Agency.
Arusha, 26 June 2009 (FH) - The defence in trial of former Rwandan military officer, Lt. Col. Ephrem Setako charged for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes before the International Criminal Tribunal fro Rwanda (ICTR), formerly rested its case on Friday after fielding a total of 34 witnesses.
The Rwandan Minister of Defence, General Marcel Gatsinzi, who was the interim chief of staff of the army during the first 10 days of the 1994 genocide, asked for forgiveness from the Rwandan people for not having dissociated himself from the "forces of the evil", reported on Monday the newspaper Izuba Rirashe (Rising Sun).
An officer of the former Rwandan Armed Forces (RAF), Major Faustin Ntilikina, started on Tuesday his testimony for the defence of Lieutenant Ildephonse Hategekimana, on trial for genocide crimes before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).
THE Presidential Panel on Amnesty and Disarmament for Militants in the Niger-Delta has adopted a grassroots consultative meeting with militants and other stakeholders with a view to assuring them of the Federal Government's committment towards solving the vexing issues of the region through the recently-offered amnesty and other developmental policies.
Leading opposition politicians in the Acholi sub-region have said efforts by the government to link them to rebel activities will not deter them from 'fighting for justice and freedom'.
Fresh fighting between the transitional government soldiers and Islamist forces has broken out in Derkenley district in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
Following Rwanda's successful implementation of the 2001 UN programme of action on small arms and light weapons, the country has been commended for its efforts towards eradicating the illicit traffic.
The Commander of the Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), Nigerian Army Minna, Major General Augustine Ogunedo has called on Nigerians to explore the option of dialogue towards addressing grievances instead of taking up arms to avoid a repeat of the 1967 Nigerian civil war.
THE UPDF disbanded a new Congolese rebel group, which was being formed in Nebbi district in April. West Nile regional army spokesperson Capt. Peter Mugisa said the army seized three guns, an unspecified number of bullets and uniforms after a tip- off by local people.
I am greatly concerned that in a democracy, harvest cannot bring joy when death is the crop. Right from the days of Isaac Adaka Boro through the dark hours of Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa to our present myopic civil experiment called democracy, it appears to me that the shedding of citizens' blood with arms bought from taxes paid by citizens has become and remained a lucrative business to our federal ...
Zimbabwe has been given an ultimatum to demilitarise recently discovered diamond fields in the eastern parts of the country following an investigation under the Kimberly Process (KP).
Diplomats accredited to Kigali yesterday said the move by the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda to exchange Ambassadors marks a turning point in stabilising the region.
At least two children have been killed near Kismayu town 500 kilometers south of the Somali capital Mogadishu after a landmine exploded around where they were playing, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.
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