After debates over the use of “fresh evidence” threw the cross-examination of former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, into disarray in recent weeks, Special Court for Sierra Leone judges told prosecutors last Monday that they were in fact allowed to use new documents to test Mr. Taylor’s credibility.
In an effort to restore order in Guinea, the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) has called on the military to step down and hand power to a civilian adminstration.
Heavily armed Al-Shabaab militants attacked a mosque in the Somali town of Basra between Afgooye and Balcad, northwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing seven people and injuring 13 others.
Minerals and arms smuggling worth millions of dollars persists in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) despite international sanctions, fuelling rebel strength despite national army operations, and army and rebel soldiers continue to kill civilians, according to a new United Nations report that calls on the Security Council to take action to plug the gaps.
Guinea's interim junta leader, has placed a bounty on the head of the renegade soldier who attempted to assassinate the country's leader, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara on Thursday.
Negotiations to find a way out of the Madagascar crisis continued in Maputo over the weekend - but with little hope of success, since the man who seized power in the March coup d'etat, former mayor of Antananarivo Andry Rajoelina, refused to attend.
Somalia's Transitional Federal Government has set up a team to investigate the bombing of a graduation ceremony on 3 December, which killed scores of people, including three cabinet ministers.
Supporters of the rebel group FDLR in North America and Europe are part of "a far-reaching international diaspora network involved in the day-to-day running of the movement, the co-ordination of military and arms trafficking activities and the management of financial activities," the UN panel says.
The UNICEF country chief Joseph Foumbi has congratulated government for being the first country in the world to be declared landmine free.
At least 13 people most of them civilians have been killed and over 33 others injured in heavy fighting between Al-Shabaab guerrillas and Somali government forces in the capital Mogadishu, witnesses.
At least three government soldiers have been killed and a civilian wounded in Mogadishu after fighting between the military soldiers of the TFG in parts of the capital, witnesses said on Monday.
Unidentified gunmen have shot and killed one of the clerics of mosques in the port town of Bosaso in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland north Somalia, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Monday.
Nine people carrying an array of dangerous arsenal were arrested last week in Lamu by Kenyan detectives.
Nine people carrying an array of weapons were arrested last week in Lamu by Kenyan detectives.
The Transitional Federal Government president Sharif Sheik Ahmed has Monday warned the troops of the government to sell their weapons, just as military training opened for the soldiers in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
At least 3 people have been killed and 6 others injured in heavy fighting that rocked Somalia's restive capital of Mogadishu, witnesses.
British Government has today sent condolences to Somali journalists for the murder of three journalists who were killed in Mogadishu blast. On behalf of the UK government, British High Commissioner to Kenya and Somalia Rob Macaire said in a letter sent to Secretary General of the National Union of Somali Journalists Omar Faruk Osman “I would like to pass my condolences to you and your ...
The Secretary General of the Liberia Council of Churches Rev. Dr. Benjamin Lartey has disclosed that is no doubt that the country is still infested with small arms and light and it is worrisome for country that is gradually returning to normality.
Tunisian-French co-operation in matters of military sport was the focus of the meeting which National Defence Minister Kamel Morjane and French Military Sports Commissioner, Brigadier Jacques Renaud had on Friday in Tunis.
The first engineer company of the new Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) has graduated after receiving three months of training in basic combat engineering from Bangladesh Engineer Contingent-12 of the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). The 60-strong company received tuition in various disciplines of combat engineering, including road and bridge construction, masonry, mine laying and mine clearing, field ...
The General Manager of the Cocopa Rubber plantation, Harrison Karnwea, says the constant wave of killings of rubber farmers has created fear amongst the farmers thus urging government to launch a full scale investigation into the incidents.
Residents of Division 29 in Firestone, where weapons were discovered last week, are left with surprise and fear following the discovery.
In recognition of the fact that shelter is one basic neccesity of man, and as part of its strategies of ensuring the availability of residential accomodation for its personnel, the leadership of the Nigerian Security And Civil Defence Corps, (NSCDC) yesterday laid the foundation of its cooperative society staff housing scheme.
The Islamist fighters of Jubba regions have detained several dollar exchangers in the port town of Kismayu, just after violating the order of the Islamic administration in southern Somalia, officials told Shabelle radio radio on Monday.
THE war veterans wanted to meet the President. Maama Chama promised to make it happen. So they camped at her home. That is where the Military Police found them.
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