Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys, the Islamist leader of Hizbul Islam organization has Saturday called fresh fighting against the African Union troops (AMISOM) in Somali capital Mogadishu.
Three members of the Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) serving under the hybrid AU/UN mission in Darfur (UNAMID), died yesterday in an ambush in Sarfumra, about 250 kilometres from El Fasher in the Sudanese troubled area of Darfur.
With the closing date of the National Gacaca Courts Service (SNJG) set for this year, Genocide survivors from Rwabutenge, in Kicukiro District say the earlier ruling in the case involving Andre Sebatware should be upheld.
The Enough Project at the Center for American Progress today released the following statement in reaction to news that the government of Sudan had arrested several members of the opposition political party, the SPLM:
Friday November 27 saw staff members of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (UNICTR) handover new medical equipment to Mount Meru Regional Hospital in Arusha.
ECOWAS Chiefs of Defence Staff will hold their last quarterly meeting for 2009 from 9th to 11th December in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, to consider issues relating to the structure of the ECOWAS Standby Force Main Brigade (ESF MB).
The joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur has spoken out against the "cowardly" attack against its forces on friday that claimed the lives of three blue helmets.
The Islamist clerics of Ahlu Sunna Wlajama'a and the transitional federal government officials have Saturday signed initial peace agreement in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
The Islamic administration of Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a clerics have disproved the TFG's statement that they had signed initial peace deal with the clerics; officials said on Sunday.
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.
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