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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.
NINE LRA who returned last month after spending 13 years in captivity have appealed for assistance from the Government to resume their education.
SECOND Republic Vice President and member of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, says the constitutional conference of 1994 and 1995 would have laid to rest, the nagging issue of political power distribution in the country, just as he blamed the defects in the 1999 constitution on the military elite.
Former Chief of Naval Staff Vice Admiral Jubrila Ayinla yesterday decried the rot in the military, accusing successive governments in the country of failing to utilize abundant talents within the military.
Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State yesterday read the riot act to security agencies guarding the militant camp in Aluu to restrict their movements within the camp while those not resident in the facility should stay away pending when their allowances are ready.
Charles Taylor did not support plans to attack Sierra Leone while he was in Libya, the accused former Liberian president told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges today while being cross-examined by the prosecution.
The UN's Eminent Group of Expert report on rebel militias in the DRC is expected to reveal Spanish and French connections to the FDLR militia, The New Times has been informed.
THE Federal Government has commenced payment of arrears of allowances owed former militants in various camps in the Niger Delta.
The recent "suicide" of a senior army officer in the wake of a break-in at a military armoury in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, is sowing fears that the missing guns may be used to fuel instability.
THE UN Security Council has condemned the increasing attacks by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and the Sudan.
Dinesh Mahtani, the coordinator of the UN Eminent Group of Experts report on militia groups' activities in DRC has told the BBC that almost 40 tonnes of gold is smuggled out of the country annually.
Sheik Yusuf Mohamed Si'ad known as (Inda'adde), the minister of state of the transitional government for the defense ministry has held press conference through the telephone in Kampala on Thursday and apologized the Islamic clerics of Ahlu sunna Waljama'a for the TFG president's statement on the clerics recently.
At least 5 people have been wounded in Galka'o town overnight after big blast convulsed in north of the town in Mudug region, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
Escalating violence in the Somali town of Galkayo, Mudug region, is creating a climate of fear, which in turn has adversely affected livelihoods, residents say.
At least two government soldiers have been killed and more than five others have been wounded in a fire exchange between the transitional government troops in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
The president of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland Mr. Abdirahman Mohamed Farole has Thursday said that he was very sorry for the misunderstand between him and TFG president Sharif Sheik Ahmed in their last meeting in the Kenyan capital Nairobi.
The United Nations mission set up to protect civilians and facilitate humanitarian aid in Chad and Central African Republic (CAR) received a boost this week with the arrival of troops from Cambodia.
President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has disclosed that Nigeria and the Republic of Ukraine would cooperate to stem the tide in illegal trading in small arms especially in the West African region.
Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), flanked by leaders from World Vision, the Enough Project, Global Witness, and the Information Technology Industry Council, unveiled legislation he will introduce in the U.S. House of Representatives today to help stop trade in conflict minerals that is sustaining a brutal war of unfathomable atrocities, especially against women, in the Congo. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) ...
The five American Catholic nuns widely believed to have been abused and brutally killed as National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) rebels advanced on Monrovia in their 1992 Operation Octopus were killed in crossfire and not deliberately by his fighters, Mr. Charles Taylor, as commander of the NPFL at the time, has claimed.
At least 230 members belonging to the command of IV division of Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) in the central Bié province, Wednesday were briefed on drafting process of the future Constitution of the Republic.
A total of 2,035 non-detonated explosive devices shall be destroyed next Friday by the National Demining Institute (INAD) in the Luvuvamu region, district of Kuimba, northern Zaire province.
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