The Ethiopian government has dismissed claims by Ogaden rebels to have captured seven towns in the oil rich Somali region located in south eastern of Ethiopia.
Cabinet has expressed its deep concern about the spate of attacks on foreign nationals at De Doorns in the Boland.
Angola has requested the re-activation of a tripartite mechanism with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the United Nations refugee agency to repatriate some 60,000 Angolans still in DRC in the wake of the mutual expulsion of scores of thousands of each other's nationals by the neighbouring States.
At least 4 people are reportedly killed and 5 others including a journalist are injured in heavy clashes between insurgents and Somali government forces backed by African Union troops in the Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses said.
ABOUT 150 Kenyan refugees arrived at the Malaba border on Thursday from Kiryandongo in Masindi. This brings to 210, the number of refugees who have voluntarily returned home in two months.
All refugees sheltered in the country will soon get refugee cards for easy identification, a senior government official said yesterday.
Scores of De Doorns residents, most of them farmworkers, ripped down shacks belonging to Zimbabweans this morning, accusing them of "stealing our jobs".
THE alleged reluctance of the Central Methodist Church to facilitate the relocation of refugee children living in the institution has set the church against the Gauteng legislature.
At least 5 civilians have been killed and 11 others injured in fighting between Somali government forces and insurgents in restive capital Mogadishu.
In real war, it would be referred to as a mopping up operation - as security forces appear to be winning their intermittent battles against illegal immigrants in Borolong.
Kenya is unable to stem the influx of refugees from war-torn Somalia, MPs have heard. They were also told that the country was caught between international agreements that require it to host and protect refugees, and a deteriorating security situation in Somalia.
The World Food Programme (WFO) recently provided humanitarian assistance to the disaster victims in the North Bank Region.
MPs have confirmed that Kenyans are being recruited to fight on behalf of the Transitional Federation Government of Somalia. A senior government official had admitted that he found out that 42 youths from his constituency had been recruited but were intercepted at Mwingi Town on their way to Manyani for training, they said.
The United Nations is appealing for international aid to assist some 18,000 Chadian villagers who have returned to their homes in a resource-poor region of the strife-torn African country after fleeing inter-communal violence and a spill-over of the conflict from neighbouring Sudan's Darfur region.
The government of Sudan has now opened voter registration centres in three Sub-Saharan countries previously left out by the National Elections Commission.
"We were fortunate to spend two days in a small coastal town of Agrigento where in the central part of the city stands a Catholic church with the figure of a black priest carved in stone perched high above in the church tower. It is a statue of Saint Calogero, an African priest who came to Sicily around the 14th century and is revered as the town's patron saint. But in the 21st century, African ...
"On 20 August 2009, off the Italian island of Lampedusa, the Italian coastguard rescued five of the remaining 78 Eritrean passengers aboard a rickety boat set sail from the Libyan capital, Tripoli. While a number of European sailing vessels had passed their boat in the three weeks it had spent at sea, only one stopped to give them life jackets, bread and water. But it soon went on its way ... ...
CLOSE to 1,000 new Somalis, who arrived in the country after the terror threats by Al Shabaab Islamists, have been registered in Kisenyi, a Kampala suburb.
A section of Rift Valley MPs have launched a fresh scathing attack on the government over eviction of Mau Forest settlers, saying they should instead be relocated. The over 13 MPs had on Saturday visited nearly 3,000 squatters who have since left the south western part of the Mau forest and are camping at Kapsongor.
The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights Sunday asked the government and other agencies to urgently provide humanitarian aid to hundreds of families who have left South Western Mau.
Resistance to a government scheme to upgrade housing in Nairobi's Kibera slum is enmeshed in economics, history and identity.
Officials from Puntland and Somali Federal Government have disagreed over harmonized accord that would allow the two governments to work together under a federal umbrella.
The hour of reckoning finally came for the Mau settlers. They have been forced to leave their homes, farms and property located right inside the forest to seek alternative residence, after the deadline issued by the government expired this week.
The top humanitarian official in Chad called for urgent attention to be paid to providing a better life for young men and women languishing in camps for refugees and displaced persons, warning that the alternatives for them would be prostitution or violence.
A 31-year-old man has been stabbed outside the Home Affairs refugee centre in Maitland during a brawl with an alleged robber.
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