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Security situation in Darfur
After assessing security reports for the past month, UNAMID estimates the number of fatalities due to armed conflict and criminality in Darfur in June...
South Sudan: Tensions rise as independence polls approach
Southern Sudan plans to contain the uprisings by renegade militia leaders protesting the results of Sudan's April elections, which saw an overwhelming victory for...
Nigeria: Militants protest over reform program
Over 1000 Niger Delta militant youths drove in a convoy of buses towards the Nigerian capital of Abuja, and blocked the highway for several...
South Africa: Black foreign nationals flee over xenophobic attack fears
Scores of Zimbabwean and other African immigrants in South Africa, according to reports are making frantic efforts to leave the country at the very...
Sudan: Khartoum rejects South Sudanese oppression claims
Khartoum government has refuted allegations that it oppresses southern Sudan.
This follows demonstrations by people from southern Sudan living in Uganda on the streets...
Guinea elections: Enraged party to dispute results in court
Numerous Sydia Touré supporters gathered Monday in the Guinean capital, Conakry, to protest alleged electoral fraud in the June 27 presidential elections. The Guinean...
Somalia: Leaders demand radical action against extremists
African leaders have moved to bolster peacekeeping efforts in Somalia; agreeing to deploy 20,000 more African Union peacekeepers to the troubled country, following calls...
Darfur: Former combatants lay down arms
More than 800 former combatants are expected to take part in a three-week voluntary discharge exercise that begins today in El Geneina, West Darfur.
The...
Libya pledges strong ties with Sudan as border closes
Sudan's decision to close its borders with Libya took effect on Thursday. Khartoum is seeking the expulsion of rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim, who heads...
Sudan: Zalingei-Darfur peace deal ends violence
Prospects of peace has increased in Darfur after leaders of rival rebel groups signed a reconciliation deal in the West Darfur town of Zalingei...
African countries’ reluctance to ratify Kampala Declaration questioned
Uganda government has expressed its unhappiness towards African countries over delays in the ratification of the Kampala Declaration, which aims at ensuring that African...
Nigeria: Huge foreign investments in Niger Delta after conflict resolution
Aviation, power supply and the development of infrastructure in Nigeria, all three previously run by the government, will henceforth be opened to private investors...
Madagascar: 50 years of independence and still in crisis
Madagascar is celebrating its fiftieth independence anniversary in a backdrop of division as Malagasy political groups opposed to Rajoelina, the country's self-proclaimed president of...
Namibians slam Zambian president over missing activists
Zambian leader Rupiah Banda on Thursday faced a hostile reception on his state visit to neighboring Namibia over missing freedom fighters some 30 years...
Sudan: Prospects of Darfur peace deal agreement bleak
The Sudanese government attacked a Darfur rebel group Liberty and Justice Movement (JEM) hours after Qatari mediators and UN officials proposed peace talks, plunging...
Giving Africa’s displaced people a new lease of life
It was a departure they never had time to prepare for. Seeking to escape death amidst fighting between the Senegalese army and rebels in...
UNESCO supported training on conflict reporting for African journalists
Journalists from three regions in East Africa affected by conflicts spent a week together exchanging experiences and learning new strategies for reporting on conflict...
Zimbabwean asylum seekers top UN chart ahead of Somalia, Afghanistan
A report released by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Tuesday reveal that Zimbabwe topped the charts by having more of its people...
Uganda: Egypt agrees to Nile Basin hydro power projects?
Egyptian Minister for International Cooperation has revealed that her
Government is committed to developing the resources of the Nile basin for
the benefit of member countries....
South Sudan: Rebel war-lord chased into Northern Sudan
Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) spokesman, major general Kuol Diem Kuol has said that the rebellion which has been going on in Unity State...
DR Congo-Rwanda: New Tutsi state breeds tension
A state-within-a-state controlled by former Congolse-Tutsi rebels, is emerging in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo once controlled by the Hutu perpetrators...
South Sudan says Sudan Army backing militias
The Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) of South Sudan has said that the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the National Security are supporting...
Uganda President applauds Obama administration for anti-LRA law
Uganda's president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Wednesday thanked the United States and in particular president Barack Obama for signing a law meant to deal...
Zimbabwe veterans vow to fight homosexuals
Zimbabwe's ageing liberation fighters have made a vow : “there will be no room for gays in Zimbabwe". They say it is against what...
Return of xenophobic attacks imminent in South Africa
Another more violent wave of xenophobic attacks is more likely to erupt in South Africa after the world cup, a group of 10 prominent...
Israeli assault on Gaza flotilla
As news came in of the mounting death toll from the Israeli storming a humanitarian flotilla heading for Gaza, the British actor and comedian...
Are Obama’s hands tied on Iran?
In a move that will do little for US-Brazilian relations but much for our understanding of the workings of the Obama administration, President Lula...
Morocco-Algeria: Fighting for the re-opening of borders
Efforts by both Algerian and Moroccan citizens towards the reopening of their common land border, closed since 1994, have intensified. By virtue of artistic...
Chad President drives UN mission out despite insecurities
Displaced Chadians and refugees from the Sudanese province of Darfur will sort out their own security as the 4,375-strong United Nations forces prepare to...
Madagascar: Andry Rajoelina handpicks his new ministers
Andry Rajoelina, President of the Malagasy High Transitional Authority (HAT), partially reshuffled his government on Monday, bringing in ten new ministers, including five military...