Delegations from Africa Oil and Range Resource have held talks with the representative of Somalia's Puntland state in the administrative capital of Garowe, where they discussed the amendment of an oil exploration accord.
The chief armourer of the Administration Police has been arrested and is being questioned in connection with illegal weapons seized from a house in Narok Town.
Barely three days after police arrested some nine people thought to have come from Somalia with crude weapons, Kenyan police on Tuesday morning arrested some 35 aliens in Bura, Tana River.
Plateau State governor, Da Jonah Jang, has frowned on the manner in which the Federal Government handled the issue of the 26 mercenaries arrested during the November 2008 crisis, saying the state does not know the outcome of investigation into the case in Abuja.
Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau has said that the Army is aiming to raise the bar in terms of performance in peacekeeping operations in 2010 hence the focus will be more on training as it braces itself up for the challenges of the new year.
Kenya Police was Tuesday night trying to figure out what a huge cache of weapons seized by officers in Narok was intended for.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today spoke out against the second deadly attack in as many days on peacekeepers serving with the joint African Union-United Nations mission in the war-ravaged Sudanese region of Darfur, issuing a call for the perpetrators to be brought to justice immediately.
At least 8 people have been killed and more other have been wounded after heavy shelling targeted to parts of the residential districts in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Tuesday.
Health officials in Somalia's self-declared independent region of Somaliland have expressed concern over a rise in mental illness, which they attribute to post-war trauma, joblessness, drug abuse and khat use.
Police in Narok on Tuesday recovered six shot guns and 100,000 rounds of ammunition from a hardware shop owned by a businessman in the town.
Progress in bringing stability to the war-wracked east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is mixed, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report, noting the heavy humanitarian toll wrought by a military operation to flush out a notorious ethnic Hutu militia.
Somali civil society groups have held meeting in the Kenyan port of Mombassa and said that AMSIOM troops did not bring any solution for the Somalia, officials said on Tuesday.
The recent massacre of defenceless Nigerians in Bakassi Peninsula by armed Cameroonian forces is a development that should not be ignored by Nigeria.
The United States condemns the use of violence against and detentions of peaceful protestors and opposition political figures by Sudanese authorities on December 7, 2009 in Omdurman, Sudan. We condemn all acts of violence in Sudan and call for restraint and dialogue among all parties. We will continue to monitor the situation very closely.
The Islamic administration of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen has banned selling Kat in Af-madow district near the border between Somalia and Kenya in Lower Jubba region, witnesses said on Tuesday.
The newly-appointed Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), Lieutenant General Sikander Afzal arrived in the country on 4 December 2009 to assume responsibility for a force of approximately 10,000 multinational troops.
Throughout the history of human civilization, from the era of the gentiles to modern day, the institution of the armed forces has been known to be one of discipline. This is because since the emergence of the state, society has ordained the armed forces to protect the lives and properties of the people. Even in the crux of the primitive age, when class antagonism was believed to be the order, ...
The president and the commander-in-chief of the Gambia Armed Forces, His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh, has stressed the need for a high sense of discipline and professionalism in the countryÂ's army, warning that indiscipline will not be tolerated.
The Police Force has launched investigations into reports that rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been receiving arms from Tanzania.
The chairman AU commission, Jean Ping has condemned two ambushes in which five Rwandan troops of the African Union-United Nations mission in Darfur (UNAMID) were killed.
Justice Opeyemi Oke of the Lagos High Court yesterday fixed January 24, 2010 to deliver judgment in the suit instituted by two victims of Naval Ratings attack, Uzoma Okere and her friend, Abdulahi Abdulazeez.
RESIDENTS of Pader, Kotido and Kaabong districts have resolved to give secret information about gun trafficking to security agencies.
Turkana pastoralists from Kenya, who crossed into Moroto district looking for water and pasture, have been urged to surrender their guns to the army.
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has approved automatic employment in the federal civil service for 32 selected corps members from across the nation who discharged their primary assignment meritoriously during their service year.
The trial of former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, took an unexpectedly early recess today after his defense team asked for more time to study documents disclosed by prosecutors for use in Mr. Taylor’s cross-examination.
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