The following is a statement issued by Joel Charny, Acting President of Refugees International.
In Rwanda, this is a season of sorrow.
Over a year after the World Bank formally withdrew (September 2008) from the social welfare portion of the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development Project (CCPDP), acknowledging that the goals were not going to be met,[1] the number and diversity of new analyses make now a good time to revisit the CCPDP and the lessons brought on by this 'pioneering and collaborative effort'.[2]
On December 1, 2009, Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) issued its final report detailing its findings on the causes and impact of that country's social turmoil between 1979 and 2003. The TRC's report represents a major undertaking on the part of the commission to expose the abuses committed against civilians during Liberia's two devastating armed conflicts, which lasted from 1989 ...
IT is no longer news that the Yar'Adua government can now beat its chest and claim to have chalked up some sort of achievement in an otherwise barren and arid tenure.
The following Security Council press statement on the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) was read out today by Council President Michel Kafando (Burkina Faso):
Sierra Leone has made a strong start in compensating war victims but only early steps have been made in a long process that needs long-term government commitment and funding, says an NGO monitoring reparations progress.
MEDIATOR Kofi Annan yesterday expressed "grave concern" about the wrangling between political leaders in the grand coalition and warned it would undermine the government's efforts to achieve the reform agenda by the end of next year.
9 December 2009 - Morale among peacekeepers in the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur remains high, despite the recent attacks that have claimed the lives of five blue helmets, a top United Nations official said today.
The International Criminal Court, ICC, faces serious logistical and legal challenges in 2010 as financial constraints could force three major trials into a single courtroom.
NIGER-DELTA peace activist, Mr. Cletus Arerebo, has commended Vanguard Newspapers, Governors Emmanuel Uduaghan and Timipre Sylva of Delta and Bayelsa States respectively for their role in the success the Federal Government has recorded so far in its amnesty programme for militants.
THE Itsekiri nation has been charged to design strategies to cash in on the 10% equity share of the oil and gas industry and the yet-to-be signed Petroleum Industry Bill as part of amnesty deal.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has released its final edited report with 10 persons being added to the list of most notorious perpetrators of war crimes.
Plateau State governor, Da Jonah Jang, has frowned on the manner in which the Federal Government handled the issue of the 26 mercenaries arrested during the November 2008 crisis, saying the state does not know the outcome of investigation into the case in Abuja.
Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau has said that the Army is aiming to raise the bar in terms of performance in peacekeeping operations in 2010 hence the focus will be more on training as it braces itself up for the challenges of the new year.
A delegation led by the Assistant Secretary-General of UN Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Edmond Mulet, arrived today in El Fasher, North Darfur, in a follow-up to his visit two years ago, when the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) was first established.
A week ago a terrorist bomb exacted a heavy toll on the struggling Somalia government, when an explosion blasted a Mogadishu graduation ceremony, killing 19 civilians, including three ministers.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today spoke out against the second deadly attack in as many days on peacekeepers serving with the joint African Union-United Nations mission in the war-ravaged Sudanese region of Darfur, issuing a call for the perpetrators to be brought to justice immediately.
"The Secretary-General placed on record his strong condemnation of the 5 December attack the second in two days, on troops from the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID).
Somali civil society groups have held meeting in the Kenyan port of Mombassa and said that AMSIOM troops did not bring any solution for the Somalia, officials said on Tuesday.
The United States condemns the use of violence against and detentions of peaceful protestors and opposition political figures by Sudanese authorities on December 7, 2009 in Omdurman, Sudan. We condemn all acts of violence in Sudan and call for restraint and dialogue among all parties. We will continue to monitor the situation very closely.
The cross examination of Mr. Charles Taylor is taking more dramatic turns and twists, as prosecutors dig into his war years, accusing him of sending scores of fighters in battles, many child soldiers, while he sat in comfortable surroundings.
PRIME Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's office has drawn the line in the ongoing emotive debate on Western sanctions imposed on President Robert Mugabe's previous administration by insisting the restrictive measures will not go away until the Global Political Agreement (GPA) is fully implemented.
"The members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the attacks on UNAMID peacekeepers in Darfur on 4 and 5 December, which resulted in the death of five Rwandan soldiers,' according to a press statement issued by the United Nations Security Council today.
At approximately 16.00hrs on Saturday 05 Dec 09, an UNAMID platoon distributing water outside a displaced persons camp near the settlement of Shangil Tobaya, located 65 kilometers south of El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, were fired upon by unknown gunmen.
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