Nearly a third of Rwanda’s 490 deployed police personnel are women, exceeding the UN goal to raise the number of female police officers serving in peacekeeping missions to 20 ... Read more »
The country celebrated, October 4th, the 20th anniversary of the peace agreement that put an end to nearly two decades of civil war that erupted after the independence from ... Read more »
An ambush by unidentified attackers that killed a group of Nigerian peacekeepers and injured several others working in Sudan's Darfur region, has been strongly condemned. Read more »
The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan have reportedly agreed to set up a demilitarized border zone and resume oil exports, but left several major security questions unresolved. Read more »
As the Security Council debates troop deployment to troubled Mali, both the United States and France are backing calls for greater international involvement, as are several African ... Read more »
The leaders of the two Sudans are under huge international pressure at high-level talks in Addis Ababa to take courageous decisions breaking the stalemate between them, mainly over ... Read more »
The United Nations has welcomed the addition of 2,500 soldiers to an African Union task force assigned to hunt down Lord's Resistance Army rebels, who have terrorized northern ... Read more »
Darfur's largest rebel group has issued an order banning the use of child soldiers following talks with the United Nations on the matter in July last year. Read more »
The U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee for Africa and International Human Rights heard testimony on Thursday from top U.S. State Department officials that examined the ... Read more »
International Affairs State Minister Henry Okello Oryem has appealed for assistance to support more than 114,000 refugees, who have fled war-torn DR Congo. Read more »
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