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Al-Shabaab fighters have vowed to seize arms from AU peacekeepers in Mogadishu if their mandate is changed.
Fighting between pro-government forces and Islamist insurgents continued for a third consecutive day in the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing at least two dozen people and wounding scores, Radio Garowe reports.
GULU district chairman Norbert Mao has questions to answer, army spokesperson Maj. Felix Kulayigye has said.
Spain Has Launched the Spanish Plan Africa 2009 - 2012, which encourages key initiatives that could play a role in preventing conflicts and strengthening peace in post-conflict areas in sub-Saharan Africa.
"Rwanda descends into bloody chaos," wrote the Chicago Tribune of April 8th, 1994. "Deadly Reality, Rwanda is Dying," screamed an editorial of L.A Times on 4th May, 1994.
This multi-ethnic community is still scarred by ruins and desolate wards, a horrifying reminder of the communal clashes of Sunday and Monday, May 2 and 3, 2004, which claimed over 700 human lives, displaced about 45,000 persons, and overheated Nigeria's Plateau, compelling the then President Olusegun Obasanjo to slam a state of emergency on Plateau State.
On 4 March 2007, the two main actors in the Côte d'Ivoire crisis signed the Ouagadougou Peace Agreement (OPA). The deal initially produced a peaceful atmosphere.
There are several sideshows going on in Northern Uganda which follow the tradition of misdirection about the roots of the conflict there.
The UPDF 3rd Division operations and training officer has urged Kenyan militias to gun down any armed Karimojong who enters their territory. Col. Mike Ondoga said this would curb cross-border cattle raids.
Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) has evolved over time. It has now positioned itself as one of the most reliable contributors to the global and regional peacekeeping initiatives.
At least 320 police officers of the Angolan National Police, among them 49 women, participate since Wednesday in Luanda on a course of operations to assist peacekeeping mission in Southern Africa region.
The Peace Corps, one of President John F. Kennedy's enduring legacies, was launched in Ghana in 1961. Nearly a half century later, the corps is still going strong in the West African country, with volunteers involved in teaching, health and sanitation training, natural resource management and small business development.
In a first exclusive interview since his return from Darfur, Maj. Gen Karenzi Karake describes RDF performance as "outstanding" and reveals challenges of leading an ill-equipped mission within an endless and complex conflict.
Rwanda Defense Forces' (RDF) Maj. Gen. Emmanuel Karenzi Karake was in July 2007 named as Deputy Force Commander of the hybrid UN-AU under the United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID).
A number of armed rebel movements in Darfur say they are ready to resume peace talks with the Sudanese Government, the African Union-United Nations official tasked with promoting dialogue between the two sides says.
At the age of 27, Lily Atong has lived most of her life as a captive and wife of Joseph Kony, the enigmatic and rarely seen leader of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army, LRA.
UGANDA assumes the presidency of the UN Security Council today with a focus on promoting peace, conflict resolution and peace building.
Although strides have been made in implementing the peace process in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) - ending the deadly conflict there between the Government and a militia - the United Nations Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region said today that progress remains slow.
FOUR days after President Umaru Yar'Adua directed the Presidential Panel on Amnesty and Disarmament for Militants in the Niger-Delta meet with the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), Mr. Henry Okah, Chairman of the panel, General Godwin Abbe (rtd) yesterday acknowledged that his panel was yet to carry out the presidential order.
Another militant leader, Reuben Wilson, operating on the Atlantic fringe of Koluama in the Southern Ijaw council area of Bayelsa has expressed willingness to embrace President Umaru Yar'Adua's amnesty offer bringing to five the number of repentant militant leaders in the state.
The former military intelligence officer, Alhaji Sagir Mohammed, has observed that the offer of amnesty by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to the Niger Delta militants will not work, saying that it is obvious that not all the militants leaders are ready to surrender their arms.
Allan (not real name) was 10 when he was abducted in 1999 by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) from a refugee camp in Adjumani, northern Uganda.
THE Urhobo Political Forum (UPF) has called on all Niger Deltans to embrace peace and dialogue as the legitimate and time tested medium to achieve their goals and condemned the military invasion of Gbaramatu kingdom.
Thanks largely to the domination of Nigeria's politics since independence in 1960 by the Northern elite, it has since become an article of faith among Southerners that the North, or its elite at least, is the problem with Nigeria.
More than 170,000 people have been displaced from the Somali capital, Mogadishu, since early May when fresh fighting broke out began between Government forces and insurgents, the United Nations humanitarian wing reported today.
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