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The joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) today spoke out against the "cowardly" attack against its forces yesterday that claimed the lives of three blue helmets.
As the rape and death toll mount in military offensives against Hutu rebels in eastern Congo, a key leader of the military campaign is forming his own paramilitary group, the United Nations has said.
Two Rwandan peacekeepers from the joint African Union-United Nations mission in Darfur (UNAMID) were killed and others wounded today in an attack by unidentified gunmen while collecting water at the north of the strife-torn Sudanese region.
When chief mediator Kofi Annan arrived in Kenya at the height of the post-election crisis, he hoped to arrange a quick meeting with President Kibaki and his rival Raila Odinga in a bid to end the widespread violence in the country.
Rwanda has accused the Khartoum government of being behind the ambush in which three RDF peacekeepers were killed and two injured at Saraf Umra in Darfur on Friday.
At about 1645 hrs on Friday 4 Dec 09, a UNAMID platoon of 20 Rwandan Peacekeepers on board three Land Cruiser pick-ups escorting one water tanker was attacked by a group of unknown armed men in Saraf Umra, North Darfur, 2 km from UNAMID Company location, and 300 meters from a Government of Sudan (GoS) checkpoint.
An attempt has been made on the life of the head of the military junta in Guinea, Moussa Dadis Camara. According to newspaper reports, he sustained severe head injuries when shot by an aide de camp, Aboubacar Toumba Diakité.
As U.S. special envoy to Sudan Scott Gration defended the Barack Obama administration's new policy toward the war-torn country on Capitol Hill Thursday, NGOs and a U.N. official reacted with disappointment and impatience.
While urging Zimbabweans to return home, affable Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Thursday made light of Wednesday's announcement by Finance Minister Tendai Biti that the country expected to experienced a 4.7% economic growth rate this year.
Indiscriminate bombings, rape and other crimes are continuing in Darfur, the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) said today, while noting that the Government of Sudan still refuses to cooperate with his office and its indicted President and other suspects remain at large.
Mr Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the Tanzanian national standing trial for terror charges in the US, wants all charges against him dismissed because his constitutional rights were violated.
The peace process in Burundi has witnessed significant progress in recent months but the country needs help to ensure successful elections next year and to tackle challenges such as human rights abuses, corruption and weak institutions, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report.
The Thursday heartless bomb attack in Mogadishu that killed 22 people -- three among them Cabinet ministers -- and left more than 40 other people badly injured demonstrated that vicious and vile insurgents are determined to destroy Somalia.
Two Rwandan peacekeepers from the joint African Union-United Nations mission in Darfur (UNAMID) were killed and others wounded today in an attack by unidentified gunmen while collecting water at the north of the strife-torn Sudanese region.
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.
As global awareness grows around the Congo and the silence is finally being broken on the current and historic exploitation of black people in the heart of Africa, a myriad of Western-based 'prescriptions' are being proffered. Most of these prescriptions are devoid of social, political, economic and historical context and are marked by remarkable omissions.
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 - ...
Darfur just may be the tip of the melting iceberg. A new study suggests that if world leaders fail to reach a meaningful agreement in Copenhagen to curb climate change, Africa will be ravaged by more wars and corpses in the coming decades. 'If the sub-Saharan climate continues to warm and little is done to help its countries better adapt to high temperatures, the human costs are likely to be ...
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.
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