Conflicts - Page 16
Guinea Bissau: High profile killings linked to rivalry
Monday’s high profile killings in the Guinean capital city of Bissau have neither been linked to a coup d’état nor connected with the booming...
Guinea-Bissau: Military chief killed, President follows suit
The President of Guinea Bissau, Jao Bernado Vieira, 69, was assassinated early Monday morning by a group of military personnel in the country’s capital,...
Morocco – Algeria border: The tug of war continues
The land borders between Morocco and Algeria were reopened exceptionally on Sunday to allow a convoy of humanitarian aid, "Life line to the people...
Circus made in Equatorial Guinea: Coup or Criminal act?
Equatorial Guinean officials have thwarted earlier reports of a coup d'état in the oil rich West African state as they accuse the Movement for...
Sudanese peace at last ?
Hopes of a peace deal in Darfur is soaring as reports claim that Sudan's most fearsome rebel group have reached a reliable deal in...
Madagascar riots: Minister resigns, PM prolongs curfew
Pandemonium continues to plague Madagascar as the government of the African Island is torn between a high profile resignation and restoring normalcy and law...
Somali rebel group blamed for killing journalist
The new Somalian president, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, a moderate Islamist - recently elected president by MPs at a meeting in neighboring Djibouti...
Valentines Day Massacre looms in Niger Delta
Oil companies namely Shell, Intel, NLNG, Agip, and ALSCON have been accused by the rebel groups in the Niger Delta of Nigeria, of backing...
Conflicting reports of Ethiopian troops’ return to Somalia
Only a couple of days after completely withdrawing all its troops from Somalia, Ethiopia has put its military on alert to go back to...
Riots in Antananarivo Madagascar to continue until…
It is total chaos in Antananarivo the capital and largest city of Madagascar. Things fell apart in the usually calm island as anti-government protesters...
Dealing with Africa’s trouble spots, AU’s concerns
The lack of progress towards peace in Zimbabwe, Western Sahara and the Eritrean-Djiboutian border row, currently ranked among the fourth category of Africa's trouble...
Crisis looms as Rwandan military penetrate DR Congo
For about 14 years now, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) - a Rwandan Hutu militia whose leaders are linked to...
Calm returning to Niger Delta as military ups offensive
The Nigerian Navy has deployed 11 new MANTRA Class Seaward Defense boats and two new Augusta Helicopters to the Niger Delta region as the...
Laurent Nkunda, the lone ranger with a lame horse
Gen Nkunda who claims to have been fighting to protect his Tutsi community from attacks by Rwandan Hutu rebels based in DR Congo, has...
Meles Zenawi: Ethiopian pullout? Not so fast, rebels!
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Thursday his troops were not hurrying to leave war-torn Somalia. "There is no rush to complete the withdrawal....
Ethiopian PM buries the hatchet with Eritrea amid threats
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Thursday he was to discuss a peaceful end to the cold war with the Eritrean government, if Asmara...
Eritrea taunts Djibouti: US, France, UN send warning
The seemingly war-cursed Horn of Africa is at it again as Eritrea desperately taunts Djibouti over border lines. But France and the United States...
Rebel leader’s killing to trigger incessant violence
A war of words and a contest of reason have ensued between the Militants in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta and the Nigerian Army over...
Ethiopian withdrawal attract hordes of Somalis into city
According to locals in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, Ethiopian troops for the first time quit some of their bases, on 13 January. Muse Nur...
Zimbabwe police on the look out for MDC “coup plotters”
Zimbabwe on Monday stepped up police and military security around the country amid claims by Bright Matonga, the deputy information minister, that the opposition...
Laurent Nkunda’s betrayal and a confused lot
The Congolese rebel movement is going through a crisis. Head of the Congrès national pour la défense du peuple (CNDP), Bosco Ntaganda, was, Monday...
LRA denial of christmas church massacre rejected
Following a collapse in the peace process between the Uganda's army and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, 100 civilians in a Catholic church...
Guinea’s renegade army resorts to threats
Following a statement from Guinean Army Captain, Mussa Dadis, that the military had taken over power, Aboubacar Sompare, the head of the national assembly...
UN pleads for the demobilization of child soldiers
Unicef has recently released a documentation of child soldiers in Sudan which stands at an alarming 6000 children aged between 11 and 16. The...
New mandate for UN efforts in Congo signed
The UN has signed a new resolution that gives its forces the authority to deploy more troops and to protect civilians from rebel groups...
Rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army in shambles
After Joseph Kony's narrow escape from a joint military operation, last week, over 70 per cent of the camps occupied by members of his...
Botswana: Zimbabwe claims ‘distorted’ and ‘concocted’
Neighbouring Botswana dismissed Zimbabwe's sabre rattling at it as nothing more than "distorted" and "concocted facts".
Zimbabwe’s state-controlled daily newspaper, The Herald, launched a broadside...
Rebels abduct UN special envoy and three others
Reports from Niamey, Niger, claim that the UN's special envoy to the country, Robert Fowler has been kidnapped. He was with abducted along with...
Rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army attacked
The Armies of Uganda, DR Congo and the government of South Sudan have launched a joint offensive against Ugandan rebels known as the Lord's...
DR Congo: UK compromising UN peacekeeping?
There is a strong case for Europe to intervene in the crisis in eastern Congo. Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, put it powerfully in a...