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Reforming the Congo’s security forces
Five years after its war officially ended, insecurity and rights violations remain widespread in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Part of the problem...
SUDAN-UGANDA: Attack “could spark exodus”
The attack on Kajo Keji county in Southern Sudan by suspected rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) could spark an exodus of civilians...
Chad: Rebels withdraw from N’djamena
Chadian rebels who surrounded the presidency in N'Djamena on Sunday in a bid to oust President Idriss Deby have withdrawn completely following helicopter raids...
Chad: Government forces claim Victory
Rebels seeking to topple the government of President Idriss Deby fought their way to a few blocks to the presidential palace on the weekend,...
Chad: War rages on
After a calm night following the intense violent exchange between rebel and government forces on Saturday, Sunday has been crippled with more intense fighting....
Chad: Rebels enter N’Djamena
Chadian rebels gained an easy entry into the capital, N’Djamena, on Saturday, in a fight to end President Idriss Deby’s seventeen year rule.
This is...
Kenyan MP killed over love-affair – Police
The Kenya Police have confirmed that a Police officer shot and killed an opposition Member of Parliament in the Western town of Eldoret, the...
Kenya: Another MP shot dead
For the second time in 36 hours, an opposition Member of Parliament in Kenya, David Kimutai Too, has been shot dead, Thursday, announced the...
Kenya: Fighting Intensifies After MP’s killing
Naivasha, usually one of the must see sights for tourists in Kenya, has been thrown into days of violent ethnic confrontations. There have been...
Kenyan post-polls violence: Kibaki, Odinga appeal for calm
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Rai la Odinga held talks late Thursday and effectively paved the way for dialogue th a t...
Annan brings Kenya’s Kibaki, Raila to negotiating table
Peace-maker Kofi Annan Thursday met Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki and his main opposition challenger, Raila Odinga, as he intensified reconciliation effort in the...
Kenya so far
Political and diplomatic solutions
Following Ghana president Kuffour’s unsucccessful visit to mediate for peace in the Kenyan crises, the former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan,...
Kenya poll chief disowns election results
The Kenya presidential election stalemate took yet another interesting turn late Thursday, when the country's electoral chief, Samuel Kivuitu, disowned the results which returned...
Kibaki summons rivals for peace talks, but opposition says no
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Monday reached out to his opposition rivals, Raila Odinga and five of his five senior associates known as the...
More Kenyan displaced arriving at refugee centres
Post-election violence has decreased in several districts of western Kenya, but displaced civilians have continued to trek across the border to seek refuge in...
Kenyan Opposition party slams delay in release of election result
Kenyan opposition presidential candidate Raila Odinga, shown to have taken an early lead in the race for power in the East African country, Friday...
Chadian rebel leader denounces arms supply to Déby by Paris
A Chadian opposition leader has strongly denounced France for allegedly supplying missiles to the government of President Idriss Déby, warning Paris that this risked...
Niger: Army, rebels commit abuses against civilians, rights groups say
The Nigerien army and rebels in the country have yet to formally respond to charges by rights groups that both sides are committing abuses...
Kenya: Inefficient peace committees frustrate reconciliation in clash areas
Mother-of-four Ann Wacu is afraid to return to her home in Kenya's New Molo District, where inter-ethnic violence has killed dozens and displaced thousands...
Somalia: Prime minister to name new, leaner cabinet
Somalia's new prime minister Nur Hassan Hussein has dismissed his government just three weeks after its formation in favour of a “small but effective...
Kenya: “Revenge attacks and rumours” fuelling hostilities in Molo
Revenge attacks, rumours, inaccurate media reports and provocative public statements by politicians have fuelled hostilities in Kenya's New Molo district, where clashes have displaced...
DRC: Poor harvest threatens food security, transport problems close feeding centre
Many tens of thousands of displaced people in Democratic Republic of Congo's conflict-ridden South Kivu province face serious food shortages in the coming months...
Ethiopia: Six more NGOs to operate in Somali region
More aid agencies – including three medical organisations - have been approved to operate in the troubled Somali region of Ethiopia.
Mercy Corps, International Medical...
Bakassi – where Cameroon is already in control
Some 10 minutes after leaving the jetty in the Nigerian border village of Ikang, our speedboat pulls up to a muddy bank now under...
No clues yet to deadly attack on Cameroonian troops
Nigerian and Cameroonian officials met Thursday but no clues have yet been found to the attack that killed 21 Cameroonian soldiers in the Bakassi...
MAURITANIA-SENEGAL: Is Mauritania ready for its refugees?
Mauritania, Senegal and the UN Refugee Agency recently signed an agreement that could turn the page on an ugly history in Mauritania, where 75,000...
Zoe’s Ark: French will stay in Chad’s prison
This Wednesday, the judge has refused to release the nine person accused in the Zoe’s Ark affair. His decision followed the huge anti-French march...
Ceasefire fails to quell Darfur violence
A unilateral ceasefire announced by Khartoum in late October has failed to improve security in Darfur, where armed groups continue to do battle, according...
OCHA concerned over official’s expulsion from South Darfur
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Sudan is holding talks with government officials over the expulsion of its South...
Aid agencies struggle to support over two million displaced Iraqis
As violence continues to force an average of 60,000 Iraqis from their homes every month, according to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), aid agencies...