New information has emerged that a clandestine partnership of sharing intelligence existed between the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) and FDLR rebels even deeper than earlier thought.
Thousands of Ugandans and Kenyans are working in Iraq and Afghanistan as contractors for US-based security companies.
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.
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.
THE Federal Government has commenced payment of arrears of allowances owed former militants in various camps in the Niger Delta.
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.
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'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 Pretoria government is probing reports that South African mercenaries are training Guinean militia, recruited by the country's military junta on an ethnic basis.
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.
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.
