Conflicts - Page 2
Libya: Gaddafi regime and protesters killing migrant workers
As the propensity for civil war heightens in Libya, citizens of poorer nations trapped in the crisis and terror shaking the North African country...
Contingency plans to protect civilians in Libya
In two, coordinated initiatives a coalition of over 200 Arab organisations and a group of over thirty prominent intellectuals from across the Middle East...
Libya: Gaddafi turns to son’s special forces and foreign mercenaries
Col Muammar Gaddafi has turned to a special military unit controlled by his son and mercenaries allegedly from Zimbabwe to aid his battle against...
Botswana warns Libya amid suspected Zimbabwe mercenaries
Botswana, a small Southern African nation has threatened to cut all diplomatic ties with strife-torn Libya while its neighbour, Zimbabwe, is
suspected of having mercenaries...
Libya: Independence for the east?
There are indications that Eastern Libya is now independent of Libya. Reports emanating from the city of Benghazi suggest that every element of Col...
Libya: Gaddafi’s national address marks his end
It is difficult to exactly comprehend the logic in Muammar Gaddafi’s defiant speech on Tuesday Februar 22- his first major speech since unrest began...
Libya: Violent plans by military alerted as death toll rises
The United Nations and the United States have condemned plans by the Libyan military to cleanse Libya of anti-government elements. The military has described...
Libya: The Gaddafis in panic mode?
The political ‘revolution’ that changed Egypt and Tunisia continue to sweep through the rest of North Africa and the Middle East as Libyan protesters...
Uganda: President Museveni wins elections, Besigye decries rigged results
Uganda's incumbet president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has won the recently
held presidential and parliamentary elections. But opposition leader, Dr Kiiza Besigye, has rejected the results...
Libyans struggle to pull off Tunisian and Egyptian success
Though the Facebook group which urged the “Day of Anger” protests on Thursday had more than 22,000 followers, events in Libya influenced by the...
United States of Africa: Just a nice dream?
The idea of creating a single state out of the African continent is well touted by numerous scholars and political autocrats such as Gaddafi....
North Africa: Child soldier recruitment still rampant
The recruitment of children into militia groups is still a concern in northern Africa as recruiters use child soldiers already in their ranks to...
Ivory Coast: Both Gbagbo and Ouattarra isolated?
Laurent Gbagbo and his supporters have grown increasingly isolated in Côte d’Ivoire, says the U.S. ambassador to the west African country, Phillip Carter.
There is...
Egypt: Live Updates – Video
Human Rights Watch researcher Daniel Williams was detained by Egyptian security forces in Cairo today.
Williams was one of several international and Egyptian human rights...
Egypt PM apologises for violence
Egypt’s prime minister has apologised for a fresh wave of violence in Cairo last night, which resulted in the death of a further five...
Ivory Coast makes sex not war
Condomerie, the Amsterdam-based condom shop, provided over 2,000 “little blue helmet” condoms for UN soldiers stationed in Côte d’Ivoire on February 1. The prophylactics...
Anger as Addis AU summit names Mugabe as Ivory Coast mediator
Africa Union leaders currently meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, have roped in one of their controversial counterparts, Robert Mugabe, to mediate in the Ivory...
North Sudan army threaten UN in Darfur
Sudan’s army have waged war on United Nations peacekeepers in Darfur.
This comes after the United States led calls for the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping...
Egypt: U.S. treads on carpet of raw eggs
The United States is trapped in a political web in Egypt given its desire for stability in a regional ally, its support for democratic...
Egypt: The Arab democratic revolution hits Egypt
The wave of democratic revolution blowing across northern Africa has recently swept Egypt, as pro-democracy groups in the tens of thousands took to the...
Ethiopia: Somali and Gambella abuses decried
An estimated number of 350,000 Ethiopians were forcefully displaced internally late last year owing to human rights violations and conflicts by both the Ethiopian...
Palestine Army of Islam behind deadly Egyptian Church attack?
The Army of Islam was behind the deadly New Year's Day church bombing in Egypt which killed twenty-three people outside a church in the...
New President makes promises: Tunisians want more
Acting Tunisian president, Fouad Mebazaa, has agreed to fulfill promises to break with the past, including a complete withdrawal of Ben Ali's party, Rassemblement...
Ivory Coast: Military option mulled as Odinga admits AU failure
Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has admitted that the African Union has failed in its mediation efforts whilst Military chiefs of the Economic Community...
Nigeria’s budding democracy struggles with religious-tribal politics
The race for the presidency in Nigeria steers closer and closer toward ethno-religious lines as politicians exploit public disenchantment on north-south, Christian-Muslim parity. All...
New government formed in Tunisia: List of Ministers
Tunisian Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi has unveiled a list of 20 new Ministers for the northern African country's "unity government". The new Ministers will...
Mama Grizzly Palin Mauls Smokey the Bear
Even Mama Grizzly, who brags about using helicopters to blast wolves with assault rifles, knows the mantra of that famed American outdoors icon Smokey...
Tunisia’s rocky road ahead of presidential elections
Tunisian Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi is prepared to implement a new national unity government which includes members of legal opposition parties, as Tunisians complain...
Ivory Coast: Declaration of War or Coalition Government?
The declaration of war against civilians in Abobo neighborhood in the Ivorian capital of Abidjan by the head of the army loyal to the...
Zimbabwe: A break-up in the offing?
A new political movement in Zimbabwe under the name Mthwakazi Liberation Front is calling for the country to be divided into two separate entities,...