Four troops from EUFOR, the European Union force in Chad, were arrested on 7 May by local authorities near the southern town of Moundou. They have not yet been released.

Speaking out against the recent stepped up violence between the Sudanese Government's forces and a rebel group, the United Nations and African Union (AU) envoys spearheading efforts to reach a durable political settlement in the war-ravaged Darfur region today underscored the civilian suffering resulting from the fighting.

The Uganda Traditional Cultural Institutions and the government of Uganda on Monday signed a declaration known as the Lira Declaration in which they agreed to play a leading role in the establishment of national reconciliation.

Lord’s Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony’s failure to sign a peace deal in April drove a nail into the coffin of the Juba peace process—a process that is grinding to an unsuccessful end.[1]

LRA rebel leader, Joseph Kony will meet the Juba talks chief mediator, Dr Riek Machar this Saturday on the Sudan-Congo border, his key negotiator, Dr James Obita has said.

The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel leader, Joseph Kony, will meet the chief mediator, Dr Riek Machar, this Saturday on the Sudan-Congo border, his key negotiator, has said.

The current police force in the Liberian capital Monrovia is unable to combat an increase in violent crime, according to a recent independent report and many of the city's residents have created their own civil defence groups.

Global oil prices on Tuesday reached an all-time high record near US$121 per barrel. Many motorists and other consumers in the country have called for reduction in the tax segment of the petroleum and diesel taxes in order to help alleviate their suffering.

The United Nations' Special Envoy to Somalia, Mr. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, has sent out a special request to the Somali people in the Diaspora to support the ongoing peace process to help save the country.

Days after the UN and African Union condemned as unacceptable the bombings of villages and markets in Darfur by Sudanese government planes, at least 13 people were reported killed in an attack on a primary school and market in North Darfur state.

Sudanese officials and representatives of donor nations opened a major conference in Norway on 5 May, amid warnings that the provisions of a three-year-old peace accord had fallen dangerously behind schedule.

The international community needs to refocus on South Sudan and to increase support for recovery and development there, the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General said today.

THE Government delegation will not return to Ri-Kwangba unless it has evidence that LRA leader Joseph Kony will show up for the signing of the final peace agreement, international affairs minister Henry Okello Oryem has said.

SERIOUS allegations persist against Indian and Pakistani officers serving under MONUC, the UN peacekeeping mission in Congo. According to a recent BBC report, some have been involved in illegal gold and weapons trafficking in eastern Congo.

The South African National Defence Force will present the first ever logistical course aimed at peace keeping and peace support missions.

THOUSANDS of students participated in the GuluWalk for peace in Canada last week. They wanted to support fellow students living in the war-stricken northern Uganda.

Humanitarian activities in northern Uganda, which is emerging from more than two decades of civil war, are being curtailed because of a decline in funding and rising costs, aid agencies and a government minister have warned.

The top military official with the new United Nations-African Union (AU) hybrid mission in Darfur, known as UNAMID, has voiced his deep concern at the rising toll of civilian deaths as a result of the recent bombing of villages in the war-torn Sudanese region.

The United Nations mission in Sierra Leone has made "significant progress" in supporting the Government to consolidate peace in the country, by strengthening the security sector, by promoting human rights and the rule of law, and by helping prepare for upcoming elections, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report.

A section of Lord Resistance Army commanders have reportedly become impatient over the Juba peace talks and have put their leader Joseph Kony under pressure to sign the peace deal or risk being abandoned in the bush.

Protestors took to the streets in Somalia's dangerous capital Monday to demonstrate against rising food prices and the business community's refusal to accept 1,000-note Somali Shillings, Radio Garowe reported.

The Defence and Security Commission of the Council for Peace and Security (COPAX) in the Central African Sub-region has taken giant strides in consolidating the peace-keeping mission in the Central African Republic and measures to safeguard the vital interests of the Economic Community of Central African States in the Gulf of Guinea. The eighth meeting of the Peace and Security Commission (CDS) ...

Peace is not in sight in the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State as the meeting called to that effect ended in stalemate with elder statesman and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark storming out of the meeting.

The recent failure by Joseph Kony to show up for the purposes of signing the final peace agreement with the Uganda government to end the 21-month peace negotiations was indeed a blow to those Ugandans who had placed faith in the peace process in the hope that such an agreement would bring to an end the 20-year conflict in the northern region.

AS POLITICIANS TRAVERSED the country recently preaching peace and tolerance, a Nairobi-based organisation was busy putting together a traditional peacebuilding initiative that has helped stem bloodletting in several areas.