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Militancy in the Niger Delta region has been linked to the failure of Niger Delta leadership and not the Federal Government.
The leader of Somalia's Hizbul Islam, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys has secretly held talks with some top Al-Shabaab officials to discuss the brewing row between the two groups.
More than 150 ex-combatants took part today in the first of a three-day demobilization and reintegration programme sponsored by the Government of Sudan and supported by UNAMID.
A British couple held hostage by Somali pirates are warning that their lives are in danger after their captives threatened to kill them if their ransom demands are not met within a week.
Two civilians have been killed and five others injured in heavy fighting between rebel forces and Somali government forces backed by African Union troops that rocked parts of restive Somali capital Mogadishu.
Somalia's hardline insurgent group Al-Shabaab has said that it has seized the control of a southern Somali town from their rival Hizbul Islam group.
West African regional bloc ECOWAS Saturday banned the transfer of arms by the 15 member states except for legitimate defence, security and peacekeeping operations, a senior official said.
Dogs don't eat dogs, but, the reverse is precisely what exmilitants are doing with their colleagues of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) who insisted that the Federal Government should discuss with the Aaron team constituted by the militant group for things to move forward in the Niger-Delta.
The African Union troops (AMISOM) have made new military base in Digfer hospital in Mogadishu, just as they blockaded the movement of the traffic of Mekka Al-murakama street in the capital on Sunday morning.
Bitter fighting between the forces who were recently fighting in Jubba regions has restarted in out of the Kismayu town in Lower Jubba region in southern Somalia, witnesses said on Saturday.
The Eastern African Standby Brigade (EASBRIG) military exercises earlier scheduled for between November 16 and 29 in Djibouti, have been postponed, The New Times has learnt.
Thousands of Ugandans and Kenyans are working in Iraq and Afghanistan as contractors for US-based security companies.
A UN court, the ICTR has acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Nine former rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) last week surrendered to the Congolese army, bringing the total number of defectors in the last five months to 51.
A report describing soldiers' service conditions as a "ticking time bomb" demanded urgent action and should be made public, Democratic Alliance MP David Maynier said yesterday.
Charles Taylor was "not honest" with the United Nations Panel of Experts set up to investigate his alleged dealings with Sierra Leonean rebels, prosecutors told the Special Court for Sierra Leone today during cross-examination of the accused former Liberian president.
The case of the two top leaders of FDLR who were arrested in Germany on Tuesday will be re-examined in three months.
In response to reports that Kenya is recruiting youth to go and fight Somalia war, a Muslim clergy has cautioned Muslim youth not to allow themselves to be drawn by financial incentives and accept to undertake mercenary work outside the country.
Shs 500bn spent on army per year but soldiers live in huts, lack toilets, dead bodies kept in patients wards
The Nigerian Army has disclosed that one Lt. Col. SS Jock, who is presently in court for wrongful court martial and dismissal, was retired and not court martialed.
FOR the Nigeria Navy (NN), they are nothing but a bunch of impersonators masquerading as naval officers. And this is why it has sworn to deal with these
WORRIED by the high rate of violence associated with general election, Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr Yakubu Alkali, has sought for extra arms and ammunition to meet up with the challenges as the 2011 general election draw nearer.
UGANDA is to host a programme in which 2,000 Somalia security personnel will be trained by European Union (EU) soldiers.
UGANDAN special forces have killed a senior commander of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Central African Republic, the army spokesman said yesterday.
The Federal Government has commenced payment of arrears of allowances owed former militants in various camps in the Niger Delta region. Each of the former militants is entitled to N65,000 per month as stipend for the period of rehabilitation. There are two rehabilitation camps in Rivers and Delta States.
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