The rival political sides of Somalia have unanimously condemned yesterday's deadly bomb attack targeted to Shamo hotel, just as well decorated graduating ceremony held for Banadir University students continued in the hotel.
The transitional Federal Government have Friday made national funeral for the ministers assassinated in the suicide bomb attack in Shamo hotel in Mogadishu which left more people on Thursday.
The president of Somalia's Puntland State has strongly condemned yesterday's suicide blast that killed more than 22 people, including three ministers in the restive capital Mogadishu.
THE commander of the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia, Maj. Gen. Nathan Mugisha, has said the suicide bomb attack in Mogadishu will not deter efforts to pacify the country.
Special Court for Sierra Leone judges today ordered prosecutors to disclose to the defense all new documents that they intend to use in the cross-examination of former Liberian president Charles Taylor who is responding to charges that he was involved in a joint criminal enterprise with rebel forces who waged an 11-years rebel war in Sierra Leone.
The renowned intellectual, Noam Chomsky recently argued that the conflict in the Kivus is 'the worst catastrophe in Africa, if not the world...' This is because, to date, over 5 million people, mostly civilians have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since the beginning of the conflict in 1996. Many more are displaced. And thousands of women - including the elderly and young girls - ...
Somalia's tragic story could not have been more vividly told than at a seminar in Kampala hosted by the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (Accord) attended by commanders of the Amisom peace-keeping force and the force's managers based.
Darfuris will this week tune into the first episode of an IWPR co-produced programme on local and international justice issues, aired by a diaspora radio station, which is estimated to regularly attract over a million listeners in the Darfur region.
A 70-YEAR-OLD woman, who helped combatants in the NRA guerrilla war, was on Wednesday night allegedly clobbered by soldiers as they arrested army veterans who had camped at her home. Malita Namayanja, alias Maama Chama, was beaten at her home on Namirembe Road in Kampala.
The multinational Eastern Africa Standby Force (EASF) Field Training Exercise began November 29, 2009 with an opening ceremony in Djibouti. The historical exercise brought approximately 1,500 troops, police and civilian staff together from 10 Eastern African countries working side-by-side for the first time, according to reports.
Prosecutors today questioned former Liberian president Charles Taylor on his decision to grant Liberian citizenship to Sierra Leonean rebel forces who relocated to Liberia in December 1999 after falling out with the Sierra Leonean rebel group's hierarchy.
UGANDANS are among the foreigner militants fighting alongside Al Shabaab to overthrow the Somali government, the African Union Mission in Somalia has said.
At least 17 people, including four Somali ministers and two journalists have been killed and over 60 others injured in deadly suicide bomb blast that ripped through a function in Somalia's restive capital of Mogadishu, Radio Garowe reports.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has led United Nations condemnation of today's suicide attack at a graduation ceremony for medical students in Somalia's war-scarred capital, Mogadishu, which has claimed at least 15 lives.
Kenya has deployed additional security officers on its border with Somalia to prevent the entry of rebels fleeing fighting in the war-torn country.
Mohamed Amin Aden Abdulle, Shabelle reporter in Mogadishu has Thursday lost his life in a suicide blast targeted to Shamo hotel in Mogadishu which also caused more deaths and injuries as graduation ceremony continued at hotel in south Mogadishu.
Reports say Somalia's Health Minister Qamar Aden Ali has been killed in a huge explosion that rocked a hotel in the restive capital Mogadishu.
Somali military and police commanders have been forced to vacate their offices for failure to curb the rampant insurgency in the war-torn Somalia, sources close to the government told Garowe Online.
A simplified version of the Rome Statute under which The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) was established has been launched in Uganda.
ITSEKIRI youth leaders, yesterday, protested alleged incessant and unwarranted arrest by anti-terrorist police (Red Beret) in Warri.
Cuban Embassy military attaché in Angola, general Rafael Moracen Limonta, on Wednesday in Luanda highlighted the continuity of the co-operation between the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) and the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA), as well as between FAR and countries of the southern African region in various sectors.
The following testimony by Former Coordinator of the UN Panel of Experts on Sudan Enrico Carisch is among the four delivered before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, at a hearing to review the progress of the U.S. administration's new policy towards Sudan.
The following is a testimony by President and Chief Executive Officer of Humanity United Randy Newcomb is among the four delivered before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, at a hearing to review the progress of the U.S. administration's new policy towards Sudan.
The following is a testimony by Co-Founder of the Enough Project at the Center for American Progress John Prendergast is among the four delivered before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, at a hearing to review the progress of the U.S. administration's new policy towards Sudan.
The following testimony by U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Jonathan Scott Gration is among the four delivered before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, at a hearing to review the progress of the U.S. administration's new policy towards Sudan.
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