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The Nigerian Army has described Lt. Col. SS Jock's suit against President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, and Minister of Defence challenging his trial by Court Martial by the Nigerian Army as a calculated attempt to rubbish the Army.
Following attacks on them and the alleged raping of their girls by reformed militants camped at Social Training Centre, Aluu, Rivers State, the two host communities, Choba and Aluu as well as students are threatening reprisal attacks on the camp of the reformed militants if the Federal Government fails to relocate them.
The Ugandan army yesterday said it had killed yet another commander of the Lord's Resistance Army in the Central African Republic even as US lawmakers moved closer to passing a law to enable the White House directly get involved in anti-LRA efforts.
Security agencies in Karamoja have arrested 22 murder suspects including Karimojong warriors, who have been on the run since 2007 when the army intensified its search operations in the region.
THE defence ministry has launched a computerised automated information management system, which is expected to remove 'ghosts' from its payrolls.
The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA)has completed its first interdisciplinary study on Kaduna State and the book will be presented to the public at the permanent site of the military university on Saturday, Professor Aliyu Abdullahi, the academy's provost said yesterday.
Director General of Nigerian Merchant Navy Corps (NMNC), Commodore Benson Edema yesterday debunked allegation levelled against him and his members on a plot to destabilise Nigeria.
THE Police are holding four suspected robbers, two of them UPDF soldiers, accused of robbing a businessman.
Hundreds of Congolese women in Gulu district have asked the Government to repatriate them home.
Mogadishu Barracks, the largest military facility in Nigeria, is one of the popular spots in Abuja, Nigeria's Federal Capital. At the barracks, many residents of the city cool off every other evening with assorted drinks, roasted fish and chips.
It is well over a year since the Botswana Defence Force (BDF) commissioned the pioneering 29 female officers who received their military training in Tanzania.
TO ensure government heeded to calls for the relocation of ex-militants from their rehabilitation camp at Aluu, four unions of the University of Port Harcourt yesterday withdrew their services from the institution.
The Pretoria government is probing reports that South African mercenaries are training Guinean militia, recruited by the country's military junta on an ethnic basis.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met today with the members of the International Commission of Inquiry set up to probe September's violent crackdown on unarmed demonstrators in Guinea, ahead of the team's visit to the country next week.
The Security Council today called on United Nations missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Central African Republic (CAR) and Sudan to coordinate strategies to protect civilians from the rebel Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which has killed, kidnapped and displaced thousands of people.
Following yesterday's arrest of FDLR leader Ignace Murwanashyaka and his deputy, Straton Musoni, in Germany, government has welcomed the move, saying the two are part of a terrorist group that has not only committed crimes in Rwanda, but also in the DRC.
The Ethiopian government has dismissed claims by Ogaden rebels to have captured seven towns in the oil rich Somali region located in south eastern of Ethiopia.
The recent upheaval in Guinea has thrown into question the status of toxic chemicals discovered earlier this year at several sites throughout the capital Conakry, according to UN experts.
At least 4 people are reportedly killed and 5 others including a journalist are injured in heavy clashes between insurgents and Somali government forces backed by African Union troops in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses said.
Human rights activists are calling on the International Criminal Court, ICC, to charge the Lord's Resistance Army leaders with a series of brutal crimes they are accused of perpetrating in the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC.
As part of a 10-day tour to gain a first-hand view of the situation in Sudan, the UN SRSG for Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC), Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, visited the North Darfur city of El Fasher.
PART from rehabilitation and re-integration of repentant militants, the implementation of a wide range of projects in the Niger Delta region is a critical component of the post-amnesty package of the Federal Government which must not be toyed with.
The Joint Task Force (JTF) and the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) yesterday traded blame over alleged raid of the home of a repentant militant leader, with the militants accusing the security outfit of threatening the ceasefire in the region by carrying out the raid.
Prosecutors spent much of today's cross-examination of former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, reading out statements by other West African leaders condemning Mr. Taylor Liberian rebel group for crimes committed against Liberians and members of international humanitarian agencies, including American Catholic nuns and peacekeepers during his country's civil war.
Today, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted unanimously to approve the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act of 2009, bringing the legislation a step closer to reaching President Obama's desk. The bill is now eligible to be voted on by the full United States Senate, and has already picked up the support from a bipartisan set of 29 cosponsors.
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