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Guinea Bissau:
Arrest of Drug Lords a 'First Step'
ISS, 12 August 2013
No other African country provides a better setting for a fast-paced crime thriller than Guinea-Bissau. Read more »
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Angola:
Govt Reiterates Being Key Factor in Regional Peace
ANGOP, 9 August 2013
The determination of Angola in keeping its gift of being a factor of peace, stability and development of the continent, through its memberships in sub-regional organisations such… Read more »
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Africa:
Ivory Course Runs From Africa to Malaysia to China
IPS, 12 August 2013
A distance of nearly 9,000 kilometres separates Malaysia from Africa, but that hasn't stopped the Southeast Asian nation from becoming a key staging post in the illegal trade of… Read more »
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Central Africa:
LRA 'Weaker Than It Has Been in At Least 20 Years'
UNIRIN, 1 August 2013
Joseph Kony is losing his grip on the fighters of his rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), with many wanting to defect, according to a new report by The Resolve LRA Crisis… Read more »
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Rwanda:
Regional Police Chiefs to Form Continental Joint Crime Force
New Times, 7 August 2013
The directors of Criminal investigations and Interpol from both Eastern and Southern Africa will today meet in Kampala, Uganda, to among others, examine the possibility of setting… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa:
Four Steps to Defuse Congo Crisis, Prevent Regional Conflict
ENOUGH, 24 July 2013
In advance of the U.N. Security Council's special session on Africa's Great Lakes region, which U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will chair on July 25, the Enough Project has… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa:
Soldiers Trade in Illegal Ivory
IPS, 25 July 2013
At a popular tourist art market in Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, paintings and art sculptures made from bronze, copper, malachite, stone or wood attract visitors.… Read more »
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Africa:
Uprooting the Causes of Conflicts
Africa Renewal, 22 July 2013
On 11 July 2011, when South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and his 8.3 million compatriots celebrated the new country's first independence, he was careful to remind everyone of the… Read more »
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Central Africa:
UN Insists No Aid, No Tolerance for Armed Groups
UN, 25 July 2013
Expressing support for the peace accord signed in February by 11 African nations to end years of fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Security Council this… Read more »