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Uganda: Escaped LRA fighters and abducted children return home
Nine former fighters of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and abducted children, who recently escaped from captivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),...
Ethiopia-Ogaden: Somali ethnicity wages war for secession amid murky claims
Ethiopia’s Somali-speaking communities, allegedly marginalized by Ethiopian government in Addis Ababa have begun another bout of rebellion against the government. So far seven towns...
Nigeria’s Niger Delta: A shaky peace process and rehabilitation program
There is an air of doubt clouding the Niger Delta as the promised education and jobs to the rebel militias who disarmed have not...
Uganda: LRA’s Joseph Kony urged to attend funeral as his mother dies
The mother of notorious LRA rebels leader, Joseph Kony has died after a long illness. According to the government representative of...
Ghanaian homemade guns and instability in Togo, Nigeria, and Côte d’Ivoire
Blacksmith Sarpong, 35, operates a small shop in Ghana’s second largest city, Kumasi. He is trained to produce cooking utensils, but prefers to make...
Sudan: NGO denounces intimidation and delays by NEC ahead of crucial polls
An international NGO in Sudan ,The Carter Center, is not happy with the way Voters' registration is being handled by Sudan National Election Commission....
Top European figures accused of fuelling African crises to rake in fortunes
Simon Mann has accused Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, of an Equatoguinean coup plot in 2004. Last week,...
Sudan: South Sudan cries foul over dishonest census
Northern Sudan has begun a census of southern Sudanese ahead of the 2011 referendum for independence. The voters’ registration exercise is meant to include...
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai may press for a full 15-member SADC summit
Another summit to tackle Zimbabwe’s unending political crisis is set for Mozambique on Thursday but little is expected from it. Swaziland's King Mswati, Mozambican...
Guinea: A chronology of recent events
Guinea’s military leader, Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara has been banned from traveling outside Guinea, his personal accounts have been frozen, and military supplies to...
Guinea Stadium Massacre: Junta leader’s aide under suspicion
The UN Security Council on Wednesday approved the creation of a commission of inquiry to look into the 28 September massacres in Guinea. The...
Zimbabwe: An impossible cooperation
Tensions are rising in Zimbabwe as militants of the ruling party, Zanu-PF, begin another bout of intimidation, harassment and violence against members and supporters...
Zimbabwe: MDC fear police planted arms in Tsvangirai home raid
Police in Zimbabwe have raided Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s residency claiming they are searching for stolen dangerous weapons from the police or the...
Uganda dares Somalia’s al-Shabab Islamists
Uganda has warned Islamist rebel group, al-Shabab, that it would regret any action of violence against Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. Al-Shaba threatened...
Somalia: AU accuse MPs for backing insurgents, al-Shabab promises terror on Uganda and Burundi
Al-Shabab insurgents launched mortars at the Mogadishu airport in an attempt to exterminate UN backed President on his way to a conference in Uganda...
Africa: Gunmen for rent
For these fighters, the main reason appears to be economic. Most of those recruited for successive wars lacked jobs and lived in desperate economic...
Nigeria: MEND resumes rebel activities, but who gains?
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) has again declared war on Nigeria’s oil sector. The group claims that the federal...
Zimbabwe: Lawlessness rife as military shoots at police during football match
Zimbabwean soldiers upped their lawlessness after seven soldiers led by a lieutenant armed with assault rifles stormed a soccer pitch and shot a policeman...
Sudan: Thabo Mbeki offers African Union solutions to Darfur conflict
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki has inquired and proposed a report that would expectedly balance the need for justice, peace and reconciliation in...
Nigeria heading towards a failed state…
A cargo ship loaded with weapons and ammunitions from the United States has been confiscated in Lagos, Nigeria. The arms loaded ship has raised...
Nigeria: Rebellion and the aftermath of an expired amnesty
The Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF), a rebel group that has been dormant in the past years, has described the just expired presidential...
Nigeria: New goups spring up as former rebels surrender
The Nigerian government has successfully disarmed rebel factions of the Niger Delta, in a presidential pardon that included cash, education, rehabilitation and amnesty for...
France to answer for arms sale to an African country?
Last year, Paris supplied Chad with weapons worth about 13 million euros. Several NGOs have accused France of not honouring its commitment not to...
Nigeria wants a strict regulation of arms trade to Africa
Nigeria has urged the United Nations to step up its fight against the illicit arms trade that has sustained civil wars in Africa. The...
South Sudan: Consensus at last?
The completion of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between southern and northern Sudan, signed in 2005, was the subject of a conference that ended...
Sudan: More deaths in an unstable South, North suspected of arming groups
Over 100 people including civilians and soldiers of the Sudan People's Liberation Army have been killed as thousands of ethnic armed men attacked civilians...
Madagascar: Andry Rajoelina changes tactics, orders arrests in Ravalomanana camp
The Malagasy war of leaders continues unabated. Andry Rajoelina will not give up without a fight. The President of the High Transitional Authority has...
Madagascar: “the foundations of a civil war is being witnessed”
Renewed violence in Madagascar over the weekend left two dead and one seriously injured, following a unilateral decision taken by Andry Rajoelina, President of...
Nigeria: Israel to aid government forces to flush out rebels?
The Nigerian government seeks Israeli warships and training as it prepares for an all-out-out military operation against rebel groups in the Niger Delta who...
Gabon: André Mba sought coup support from Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon…
Francis Sala Ngouah Beaud, a journalist and former member of Andre Mba Obame’s (who came in second in the August 30 election) campaign team,...