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Rwandan peacekeepers stationed in the volatile western Sudan region of Darfur have come under attack leading to loss of lives. The two attacks, happening within two days, are clearly designed to achieve certain sinister objectives.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 - ...
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.
UGANDANS are among the foreigner militants fighting alongside Al Shabaab to overthrow the Somali government, the African Union Mission in Somalia has said.
ITSEKIRI youth leaders, yesterday, protested alleged incessant and unwarranted arrest by anti-terrorist police (Red Beret) in Warri.
The following testimony by Former Coordinator of the UN Panel of Experts on Sudan Enrico Carisch is among the four delivered before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, at a hearing to review the progress of the U.S. administration's new policy towards Sudan.
The following is a testimony by President and Chief Executive Officer of Humanity United Randy Newcomb is among the four delivered before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, at a hearing to review the progress of the U.S. administration's new policy towards Sudan.
The following is a testimony by Co-Founder of the Enough Project at the Center for American Progress John Prendergast is among the four delivered before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, at a hearing to review the progress of the U.S. administration's new policy towards Sudan.
The following testimony by U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Jonathan Scott Gration is among the four delivered before the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, at a hearing to review the progress of the U.S. administration's new policy towards Sudan.
Some 162 personnel of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces, RSLAF, would soon leave the country to participate in peacekeeping operations in Darfur, Sudan, according to the deputy chief of defense staff and spokesman of the military.
The leader of the visiting Zimbabwean delegation from the Ministry of Youth and Empowerment, has commended Rwanda's reconciliation drive, saying it is a manifestation that Africans can solve their own problems.
An ancient tradition of community governance in Southern Sudan could encourage peace-building among warring communities, say researchers.
The United Nations Security Council early this week renewed sanctions against rebel groups operating in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has informed the Security Council of his intention, following consultations with the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, to appoint Mr. Ibrahim Gambari of Nigeria as Joint Special Representative of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) with effect from 1 January 2010, announced UN deputy spokeswoman Marie Okabe at a press ...
The Mozambican authorities have denied a claim from Rwanda that Mozambique is protecting Rwandan fugitives involved in the 1994 genocide in that country.
At the 6227th meeting of the Security Council of the United Nations, the Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations briefed the council on a report setting benchmarks for assessing progress of the mission in Darfur and recommending steps towards peace.
Displaced Zimbabweans in De Doorns say they face an uncertain future and refuse to return to the areas from which they were ousted a week ago.
The Security Council today extended and expanded the arms embargo and related sanctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which have been in place since 2003, for another year.
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