Conflicts - Page 17
Sudanese oil rich town deserted
The disputed Sudanese oil town of Abyei has become a ghost town as thousands have fled in fear of an impending civil war.
A 13-hour...
Ethiopian troops to monitor safe exit of AU forces
Ethiopian troops in Somalia will secure the safe exit of the African Union (AU) peacekeeping troops in the country before eventually pulling out at...
EU deploys troops to Eastern Chad not DR Congo
The fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region has spilled over to the republic of Chad but the European Union has already deployed troops to manage...
DRC crisis: European Union looks the other way
The Bill to send 3,000 more troops to DR Congo has been overlooked by most European foreign ministers, reports claim. The EU states have...
Ethiopian troops in Somalia : Friend or Foe ?
Ethiopian troops, preparing to pull out of the war-ruined Somalia, have once again been accused of committing war crimes, looting of civilian property and...
Ethiopian forces and Somali Islamists’ clash sparks protests
This weekend, heavy fighting broke out in Somalia leaving 28 dead and many more wounded after clashes erupted between Islamists militia groups and Ethiopian...
DRC President Kabila meets rebel leader Gen. Nkunda
After a lingering negotiation for peace talks by UN special envoy, former Nigerian president Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo, the government of DR Congo under Joseph...
Namibia slams Botswana for ‘war’ on Zimbabwe
A Namibian state-owned daily newspaper, the New Era, Friday called on Southern African leaders to call neighbouring Botswana 'to order ' after Botswana officials...
DRC – Rwanda joint forces agreement doomed from start?
Reports from DR Congo claim that the governments of both Rwanda and Congo have agreed to sign a deal to work together towards combating...
Suspected brain behind Guinea-Bissau coup arrested
Alexandre Ntchama Yala, the suspected brain behind the 23 November coup attempt against Guinea-Bissau President Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, was arrested in Gambia Tuesday...
Ethiopian troops return en masse to southern Somalia
Just a few days after the Ethiopian government formally announced plans to withdraw its troops from Somalia following a pact signed between Ethiopia, the...
Jos hospitals struggle to keep up with wounded
Following the religious clashes in Jos Nigeria, the few Hospitals available in the city are struggling to accommodate or cope with the dead bodies...
Chaos on the Kenya – Somalia border
Thousands of people are fleeing parts of the northeastern region of Mandera and neighbouring Somali border areas after Kenya beefed up its security presence...
Jos Nigeria clash: Almost 400 victims get mass burial
Bodies of 376 victims of the violence that engulfed Jos, capital of Nigeria's North-central Plateau state, and its environs have been given a mass...
Ignorance the root of Muslim and Christian clash in Jos
Only yesterday, a locally contested election between a Christian and a Muslim candidate resulted in mayhem after the Christian candidate emerged winner of the...
Ethiopian withdrawal from Somalia a precondition for peace
"We have done our job and we are proud of it, but the expectations that we had from the international community were never fulfilled....
DRC Rebel leader Nkunda attacks villages
Despite accepting a cease fire declaration last week General Laurent Nkunda has attacked Hutu villages and Rwanda Hutu fighters, some of whom are accused...
Guinea Bissau’s affair with Coup d’etats and Cocaine
Last Sunday when millions of people on the African continent found themselves in various churches worshipping, a group of military officers in Guinea-Bissau were...
Arms cache discovered in Kinshasa
Two trunks of weapons have been discovered in Limete District in the Congolese capital, Kinshasa, the Congolese National Police (CNP) said on Tuesday.
According to...
DR Congo conflict : A cause for grave concern
UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban KI-Moon has released a 28-page report for the UN Security Council on Human rights in DR Congo and the...
Mugabe sends spies into Botswana
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has deployed agents of the country's Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) to Botswana to investigate allegations that Botswana is training youths...
No help to thousands caught in the triangle of death
When the armed rebels and militias of Congo, Chad or Sudan, go through villages , what they leave behind them are deaths, sorrows, uncertain...
Mogadishu attacks stall Ethiopian withdrawal
Reports from Mogadishu in Somalia say that almost 20 people have been killed and many more injured after a rebel group attacked Somalia ’s...
UN – AU seek to use force against DR Congo rebels
The African Union and the United Nations will move to the next most difficult chapter in trying to find long-term solutions to the conflict...
Xenophobic attacks making a comeback in S. Africa
As Aunesi Omari and her children cowered in her room in Philippi, a low-income section of the South African city of Cape Town, in...
Nigerian Army and MEND’s war of words over arms sale
The Nigerian Army Thursday dismissed MEND's claims that it never bought the weapons for which an Army Major and five others bagged life jail...
Violent attacks by Gov’t and Rebel forces in Darfur worrying
The recent bombings and gun-fire exchanges between Sudan government forces and the genocide threatened black Sudanese rebels have led United Nations Secretary General Ban...
DRC groups plead for redemption as bodies litter streets
‘We don't know which saint to pray to. We are condemned to death by all this violence and displacement. We have been abandoned,’ a...
Angola and Zimbabwe troops drawn into DRC conflict ?
A proposal would be voted for later this week by the UN security council in order to bring the 17000 troops in DR Congo...
Zambia stops troops to DRC as Nkunda talks peace
Zambia will not send its troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo as its defence forces are currently over-stretched with matters of internal security....