December 3
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Why We Should Be More Kind to the Police [opinion]
The Star
The village where I was born was so progressive when I was growing up that its one lane shopping centre had a petrol station, a real marvel in those years. Read more »
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The Ugly Face of Gender Violence
The Star
Traditional gender violence is emotional and physical usually experienced under family surroundings due to disagreements ranging from inheritance, property to suspected infidelity. Read more »
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Afabet Residents Called Upon to Enhance Participation in Crime Prevention
Shabait
The office of Police Force in Afabet semi-urban center called on the residents to enhance participation in crime prevention. It made the call during a seminar with secondary and... Read more »
December 2
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UN News
The United Nations has welcomed the withdrawal of the 23 March Movement (M23) armed group from Goma, a provincial capital in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),... Read more »
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Gunmen 'Burn Churches, Border Posts in Borno State
Vanguard
Suspected members of the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram set fire to churches and border posts in northeastern Nigeria on Sunday, residents said, but it was not immediately... Read more »
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Govt Forces Attack Extremists' Camp
Sudan Tribune
More than a dozen Islamist extremists were killed on Friday following a fierce gun battle with Sudanese security forces at a camp that was discovered in the east of the country,... Read more »
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Govt Suspends UN Radio Broadcasts [press release]
Monusco
The United Nations Organization Mission Stabilization in the Democratic Republic of Congo expresses deep disappointment at a decision taken by the Conseil Supérieur de... Read more »
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Military Chiefs Removed After Bombings
Daily Trust
The Defence Headquarters yesterday ordered for the redeployment of the Commandant, Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC) Jaji, Air Vice Marshal Abdullahi Kure, and the... Read more »
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New Times
The government yesterday said it was disappointed by the UK's decision to freeze budget support to Rwanda since it is based on a highly controversial report by a UN appointed Group... Read more »
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After Africa's Wars, a 'New Day' for Building Peace [interview]
Africa Renewal
Concerned about the fragile state of countries that have recently emerged from war -- and their vulnerability to new bouts of violence -- the UN in 2005 established the... Read more »
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Inter-Agency Mission Assesses Return Conditions in North Kivu Region
UNHCR
The UN refugee agency has led a joint mission to assess security conditions in an area of eastern Congo that thousands of recently displaced people have started returning to and... Read more »
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Where Is Safe in Nigeria? [editorial]
Leadership
An embarrassing dimension was introduced into the nation's security challenge last weekend, when the suspected terrorists penetrated the defence of the Nigeria's Command and Staff... Read more »
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Bombing in Kismayo,Former Somali Shebab Bastion Kills One
Shabelle
Witnesses and a local residents say at least one person was killed and several others injured in Somalia's Kismayo city after a bomb attack. Read more »
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Growing Violence in Darfur Deserves Honest Reporting, Not More Flatulent UN Nonsense
SSNA
UN and UNAMID leadership, including Acting JSR for UNAMID Aichatou Mindaoudou, the UN High Commission for Human Rights, the UN Special Rapporteur for the Human Rights of Displaced... Read more »
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Law Society Expresses Concern Over Kenya's Violence
Daily News
THE Arusha-based, East African Law Society (EALS) has expressed concern over state of unrest in Nairobi as well as other towns in Kenya. Read more »
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Security Forces are Too Vulnerable
The Star
The government's ability to provide Kenyans with adequate security during and after next year's elections has been put to question. Read more »
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Jaji Bomb Blasts - How Residents 'Got It Wrong'
Daily Trust
As Nigerians continue to wonder how bombers beat the security at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Jaji on Sunday, residents of the area told Weekly Trust that... Read more »
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Insecurity - It's Time for God's Intervention - Mark
Daily Trust
Senate President David Mark says it is time to seek God's intervention in the security challenge facing the country. Read more »
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SARS Attack - Police Intensify Search for Fugitives
Daily Trust
Security and civil defence forces in Nigeria are still searching for a number of high profile detainees who escaped from police detention centre in Abuja. The number of fugitives,... Read more »
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Police Arrest 19 Suspects in Nasarawa Mayhem
Daily Trust
The police in Nasarawa State, at the weekend, paraded 19 suspects they have arrested in connection with the penultimate week mayhem which hit Agyaragu, at the outskirt of Lafia and... Read more »
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When Kaduna NUJ Sensitises Journalists On Way to Report Conflict
Daily Trust
The Correspondents' Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Kaduna State chapter, on Tuesday organised a one-day capacity building workshop to sensitise its members on the way... Read more »
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Holy Mass in the Face of Terror
Daily Trust
Some print media that reported the bomb attack on St. Rita's Catholic Church, Kaduna, Nigeria on October 28, 2012 presented the parish priest, Fr. Mike Boni Bazza (OSA), who... Read more »
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Bombing - Police Comb Bayelsa Streets, Remove Abandoned Vehicles
Leadership
Authorities of the Bayelsa Police Command have commenced a mop up of vehicles, especially those allegedly abandoned by suspected armed bandits along the major streets of the state... Read more »
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Boko Haram - Peace Panel Gets Three Months Extension
Leadership
The Committee on Peace, Security, Reconciliation and Healing, set up by the Northern States Governors Forum (NSGF), has been granted another extension of three months. This is to... Read more »
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Govt Saddened by UK Decision to Freeze Aid
News of Rwanda
The United Kingdom (UK) government has once again decided to freeze aid to Rwanda basing on allegations contained in the UN Group of Experts on the DRC dispute, a decision that... Read more »
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