Conflicts - Page 5
Nigeria: Independence-day attack was from outside
A small terrorist group based outside Nigeria, but under the auspices of some Nigerians have been identified as the perpetrators of the independence-day attacks...
Uganda: Intimidation and rigging to mar elections?
Election mood has reached fever pitch levels as primary election campaigns for flag-bearers of various political parties, ahead of the January presidential polls, register...
Nigeria: Government blamed over blasts
As Nigerian authorities gathered at the Eagle Square in the capital city of Abuja, to celebrate the 50th year since the green-white-green replaced the...
UN succumbs to Rwanda’s Peacekeeping leverage
The Subtleties of diplomacy may have trounced fact as the UN in order to maintain the stability in the Central Africa region, has moved...
Human rights defenders beaten at Western Saharan airport
Four human rights defenders were injured, one seriously, by Moroccan police in Western Sahara after returning home from an international conference in Algiers yesterday....
Algeria-Morocco: Violent clash averted in Western Sahara stand-off
“I have just lived through one of the most terrifying experiences of my life” renowned Spanish actor Willy Toledo, tells me over the phone...
Sudan: Government to arm villagers against rebel attacks
Civilians in the volatile south Sudan region will be armed with guns to fight off looming attacks from rebels of the Lords Resistance Army,...
Burundi: Fear of civil war looms
Fear of looming rebellion is gripping Burundi following the discovery of fourteen bodies, some of them mutilated with machetes, in a river west of...
Sudan: U.N. and U.S. step up effort on Sudan referendum
U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to attend a special summit on Sudan on Friday on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting....
Zimbabwe: Security forces draw swords over shot officers
Zimbabwe police and the dreaded Central Intelligence Organization have declared war on each other after a round of fatal shootings over the weekend left...
Somalia: Islamist militia takes over Horn Afrik and GBC radios
Islamist militants in Somalia have taken control of major independent radio stations in their bid to infiltrate the Somali public with extreme Islamic propaganda...
U.S. “not choosing sides” in Sudan’s “make or break” period
The current period leading up to the January 9, 2011, referendum on Southern Sudanese independence presents “a make-or-break period for Sudan,” U.S. Special Envoy...
Ethiopia: Nowhere to hide for insurgent forces
At least 123 militiamen of the Ogaden National Liberation Front- the rebel forces fighting the Ethiopian government have been killed by Ethiopian army....
Egypt: Middle East peace talks useless?
After another round of direct talks in the idyllic setting of Sharm El-Sheikh, in Egypt, Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas will shake hands, smile...
September 11, Terry Jones and the Koran
After having repeatedly changed his mind, the American pastor Terry Jones has finally laid his plans, to burn copies of the Koran on Saturday...
Sudan: Shamed Ugandan traditional healers seek compensation
Over 1000 Ugandan traditional healers who were operating in southern Sudan and were expelled for conning Sudanese nationals want compensation from southern Sudan government.
Through...
Sudan: North guilty of using LRA rebels to destabilize south?
Northern Sudan has been accused of employing rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to unsettle southern Sudan and the Darfur region ahead of...
Nigeria: Extreme Islamists preparing to strike again?
Extreme Islamist group Boko Haram has re-emerged in northern Nigeria, where members have attacked a police station in the state of Bauchi, in an...
Rwanda Peacekeeping: Goodwill or Blackmail?
Human Rights Watch has criticized Rwanda for threatening to withdraw its peacekeepers from African Union/United Nation missions in Sudan, accusing President Paul Kagame's government...
Planned Quran-burning could endanger troops
The U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Monday criticized a Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Quran on September 11, warning the demonstration...
Egypt President Hosni Mubarak warns of Iran
Egypt president Hosni Mubarak has expressed concern at Iran’s rising nuclear mission, insinuating that the country’s nuclear capacity threatens to cause unrest in the...
Darfur – south Sudan: Confusion over conflict resolution approach
Debates over which approach (incentive or balanced) to implement in resolving the unrest in Darfur and ensuring a peaceful referendum on southern Sudan independence...
Uganda wants support against al-Shabab as soldiers’remains arrive
The government of Uganda has today afternoon received the bodies of four
Ugandan Peace-keepers who were killed by Al Shabab militants in Somalia on Monday.
Uganda...
Western Sahara: Morocco to be sent to court by injured Spanish activists
To the utter dismay of the Spanish Government eleven Spanish activists were arrested Saturday in El-Aaiún, the capital of Western Sahara, by the Moroccan...
Somalia: Ethiopia troops move in as AU-Shabab conflict intensifies
The battle for control of Mogadishu has intensified and the African Union, backing the Somalian government, has suffered a loss of four of its...
Hilary Clinton condemns mass rapes in DRC
Reports that between 150 and 200 women and children were raped by rebel forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) prompted pledges...
Al Qaeda in Yemen
On Wednesday the Washington Post reported that CIA sources now believe that Yemen-based group, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), now represents a...
New genocide report may rock the Rwandan government
A leaked United Nations report which claims that the Rwandan army may have carried out genocide in Congo, between 1993 and 2003 is to...
South Africa’s battle against cowardice
Considering the new wave of xenophobic attacks against black Zimbabweans, some black South Africans now have conceded that they are a brood of insecure,...
U.S. offers help in Sudan and Congo
The Obama administration has deployed U.S experts to buffer the tensions in Sudan ahead of the referendum for south Sudan's independence, and offer assistance...