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Kenya: We Must Not Allow the Country to BurnThe movie Godzilla depicts a giant mutated man-eating lizard wreaking havoc in New York's Madison Square. It takes the courage of a few individuals to destroy the monster and its offspring.
Source : AllAfrica | 23-Jan-2008 01:23
Nigeria: Group Wades Into Ijaw Communities' Dispute
Ijaw National Human Rights Organisation (INHRO), has condemned the lingering communal dispute, which has led to reprisal attacks between the Odimodi and Ogulagha Ijaw communities and urged immediate end to the hostilities.
Source : AllAfrica | 22-Jan-2008 01:02
Sudan: Push for Strong United Nations Force in Darfur
The United States should use its Security Council presidency in February to urgently seek a transition of the African Union force in Darfur to a United Nations mission with a strong mandate to protect civilians, said Human Rights Watch and the International Crisis Group yesterday in letters to U.S. President George W. Bush and members of the U.N. Security Council.
Source : AllAfrica | 14-Jan-2008 19:22
Nigeria: Communal Clashes - Jigawa Constitutes Special Committee
Determined to put an end to perennial clashes between Fulani herdsmen and farmers in the state, Jigawa State government has constituted a high powered inter-governmental committee, to find lasting solution to the clashes.
Source : AllAfrica | 21-Dec-2007 15:03
Uganda: Northern Uganda Aunted By LRA War
It was Easter Sunday. They had just sat down for a huge meal, when a gang of armed men attacked. Her husband was shot twice by a bearded man wearing a mask and an overcoat.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Dec-2007 19:07
Nigeria: President Must Act Now to End Delta Unrest
Nigeria?s President Umaru Yar?Adua needs to act decisively to keep violence in the oil-rich Niger Delta from escalating and spreading.
Source : AllAfrica | 05-Dec-2007 19:09
Nigeria: Militants Kidnap 75-Yr-Old Father of Ex-Lawmaker
Niger Delta militants have kidnapped a 75-year-old father of a former member, Rivers State House of Assembly, Pa Christian Mba in Port Harcourt, the state capital.
Source : AllAfrica | 04-Dec-2007 19:16
Somalia: Puntland Warns of Looming Humanitarian Crisis
Somalia's northeastern self-declared autonomous region of Puntland has appealed for assistance for hundreds of displaced families from Sool region, which was overrun by forces loyal to the self-declared republic of Somaliland on 15 October.
Source : AllAfrica | 25-Oct-2007 18:40
Nigeria: MEND Threatens Bombing Beyond Creeks
The Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND says it will extend its bombing campaigns beyond the creeks of the region to other parts of the country if the Federal Government "accedes to the military's request to raid militant camps" in the Niger Delta.
Source : AllAfrica | 19-Oct-2007 17:20
Kenya: The UN, Iraq and Pursuit of U.S. Strategic Interests
BEFORE THE WORLD KNEW it, on March 19, 2003, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was informed by the White House that the war in Iraq had begun. The first warplanes would be over Iraq in a few hours.
Source : AllAfrica | 19-Oct-2007 12:17
Liberia: ESPN Honors Liberian Soccer Star George Weah
Retired Liberian soccer star George Weah was honored this month at the 12th annual ESPY awards organized by the U.S. sports television network ESPN. Weah received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, which acknowledges an athlete whose contributions transcend sport.
Source : AllAfrica | 18-Oct-2007 01:02
Is Laurent Nkunda On Picnic in the Jungles of Congo?
Laurent Nkunda was born in Rutshuru in 1967 near the Park of Virunga which was called Park Albert in colonial days. After the Genocide in Rwanda, the killers moved to Nkunda's homeland and proceeded on doing the same thing they had done in Rwanda.
Source : AllAfrica | 16-Oct-2007 12:47
Zimbabwe: Charges Withdrawn
Glen View legislator Paul Madzore and 14 party activists accused of undergoing terrorism training in South Africa, yesterday, had their charges withdrawn before plea.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Oct-2007 12:54
Uganda: LRA War Threats Scare Returnees in the North
THREATS by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels that they will launch attacks in northern Uganda if their bases in DR Congo are attacked are causing tension in the north.
Source : AllAfrica | 19-Sep-2007 13:05
Côte d'Ivoire: UN Security Council Demands Compliance With Côte d'Ivoire Peace Accords
Expressing its serious concern over the deteriorating situation in Côte d'Ivoire and condemning serious recent attacks on United Nations peacekeeping personnel, the Security Council today called on all the parties in the divided West African country to implement immediately all the peace accords they have signed.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Sep-2007 07:05
Côte d'Ivoire: Civil Strife an Obstacle to Aids Treatment - Govt
Ongoing conflict and a lack of funds are hampering efforts to roll out anti-AIDS treatment to HIV-positive people in parts of the Ivory Coast, government officials have said.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Sep-2007 06:50
Congo-Kinshasa: Thousands Return to Ituri Gold Town After Army Ousts Rebels
Some 5,000 civilians who fled fighting last week between the army and local armed groups in a gold mining area of northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s Ituri District began returning to their homes on Monday, a Roman Catholic clergyman said.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Sep-2007 06:35
Sudan: AU Security Council Holds Emergency Session On Darfur
The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU) was meeting on Monday to discuss the worsening security situation in Sudan's western region of Darfur where rampant ceasefire violations have resulted in dozens of deaths and further displacement.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-Sep-2007 06:20
Country at 19th War Veterans International Conference
A delegation from the Ministry of Former Combatants and War Veterans led by its deputy minister, Lourenço Diogo Contreiras Neto, attends the ninth 19th Conference of the World War Veterans Federation that happens from this Monday to next September 07 in Singapore.
Source : AllAfrica | 04-Sep-2007 11:26
Zimbabwe: Western Media And the 'Politics of Genocide'
WHEN African scholar Mahmoud Mandani looks at the slaughter and displacement of civilians in Darfur he notices something odd.
Source : AllAfrica | 15-Aug-2007 13:12
Nigeria: 40 Years After Civil War
Ntai Bagshaw traces the genesis of the Nigerian civil war, otherwise called the 'Biafran War', which was fuelled by deep-seated ethnic and religious rivalry in the polity and armed forces
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Jul-2007 12:51
Nigeria: A Forgotten Monument
Gakem, a community in Bakwarra Local Government Area of Cross River State is a unique place in several respects. Historically it was the border town between northern and southern Nigeria, between southern and eastern regions between the old Benue Plateau and South-Eastern State, and today between Benue and Cross River States.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Jul-2007 12:36
Nigeria: Despair for Disabled War Veterans
It is still agony for the veterans of the civil war who were disabled fighting for the soul of the former Biafra.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Jul-2007 12:06
Namibia: Genocide Was Real - the Demand for Reparations is Legitimate
June 13, 2007 marked the introduction of a motion in the German Parliament (Bundestag), dubbed: "Acknowledgement of and Reparations for German Colonial Crimes in the former South-West Africa".
Source : AllAfrica | 06-Jul-2007 12:22
East Africa: Burundi Embraces Peace As It Joins Regional Bloc
Burundi appeared to be on course to lasting peace following a decade of bloodletting. This comes after the government and the remaining rebels, Palipehutu-Forces Nationales de LibÈration (FNL), agreed last week to reactivate a ceasefire agreement signed in November 2006, in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania.
Source : AllAfrica | 25-Jun-2007 23:32
Move Swiftly On the Darfur Turmoil
The Government of Sudan is saying that it is ready to accept a United Nations peacekeeping force in the troubled Darfur region. It also says it is ready to participate in a joint UN-African Union mediation to resolve the conflict, which has driven 2.5 million people from their homes, and threatens to spread into neighbouring Chad and engulf a much wider region.
Source : AllAfrica | 20-Jun-2007 13:04
Sudan: Security in South Darfur Town Shows No Improvement, Says UN
The security situation in the southern Darfur town of Gereida has not improved and militia attacks against civilians, especially women, are continuing, the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) said today after wrapping up a four-day visit to the town.
Source : AllAfrica | 19-Jun-2007 12:19
Cameroon: Oku/Mbessa Conflict - Twenty-Four Days To Demarcate Disputed Boundary
Governor threatens to confiscate and reallocate disputed area to development partners if efforts to demarcate fail.
Source : AllAfrica | 25-May-2007 19:13
Cameroon: Oku/ Mbessa Clashes - "Someone is Trying To Cheat On The Boundary"
Peter Tieh Nde, S.G. North-West governor's office talked to C.T on the new clashes pitting Oku and Mbessa in Bui and Boyo Divisions.
Source : AllAfrica | 10-May-2007 19:10
Cameroon: Violent Clashes Rock Mbessa/Oku Again
A violent exchange of gun shots have again jeopardized peace between the villages of Mbessa, Belo Sub Division and Ichim, Oku Sub Division since May 5th 2007. Barely two months after the last confrontation that pit both communities resulting in massive destruction of property, they are again crossing swords over the disputed piece of land that separate Ichim in Oku, Bui Division and Mbessa in Boyo Division.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-May-2007 17:53
Somalia: Government in Control of Mogadishu
The situation in the volatile city, Mogadishu, is calm on Friday as Somali government and Ethiopian troops are in control of the areas where the fighting took place in the past eight days.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Apr-2007 13:26
Somalia: UN Chief Calls For More International Aid
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his grave concern about the intensified violence in Somalia, and called on the world to step up its assistance to the war-torn East African nation.
Source : AllAfrica | 27-Apr-2007 13:17
Uganda: LRA Rebels and Government Sign New Truce
Shaking hands and embracing, Uganda's government and Lord's Resistance Army rebels signed a new two-month truce on Saturday, boosting efforts to end one of Africa's longest and most brutal wars.
Source : AllAfrica | 16-Apr-2007 07:10
Uganda: Karamojong MPs Want Government to Certify Disarmed Warriors
MEMBERS of Parliament from Karamoja region have written to the government demanding that former warriors and disarmed civilians be given certificates of surrender.
Source : AllAfrica | 16-Apr-2007 06:55
Kenya: First Lady to Visit Clash-Hit District
First Lady Lucy Kibaki will on Monday visit the troubled Mt Elgon District, where independent reports say more than 140 people have been killed.
Source : AllAfrica | 16-Apr-2007 06:50
Kenya: Minister Opposes Arming of Sailors
The Government has ruled out the possibility of Kenya providing arms to cargo ships crew travelling to war-torn Somalia.
Source : AllAfrica | 16-Apr-2007 06:40
Somalia: Government Accused of Shelling Residential Areas
Elders from Hawiye clan in the Somali capital Mogadishu accused the Somali transitional government (TFG) of continuing the war in the capital and forcing the remaining civilian population to flee.
Source : AllAfrica | 15-Apr-2007 19:03
Somalia: Rival Governments Claim Victory in Gun Battles
The secessionist government of Somaliland and the semiautonomous regional administration of Puntland in northeast and northwest of Somalia claimed victory over each other in their latest gun battle in the controversial settlement of Dahar in Sanag province, northwest Somalia.
Source : AllAfrica | 15-Apr-2007 18:48
Uganda: LRA Rebels Agree to Resume Peace Talks
The LRA have agreed to resume peace talks with the government in Juba on April 25, the UN special envoy, Joachim Chissano, has said.
Source : AllAfrica | 15-Apr-2007 07:04
Somalia: UN Concerned for Civilians In Intensified Fighting
With fighting in Somalia is at its heaviest since the outbreak of war over a decade ago, the top United Nations humanitarian official today voiced deep concern over the dire situation in the war-torn country where civilians fleeing the capital, Mogadishu, have been harassed, threatened, raped and robbed.
Source : AllAfrica | 13-Apr-2007 07:05
Kenya: Seven People Killed in Rustling Clash
Seven people were killed during a clash involving rustlers and herdsmen in Turkana South District.
Source : AllAfrica | 13-Apr-2007 01:13
Kenya: 51 Per Cent Proposal is the Antidote for Tribalism
The mob's moment of glory is the victim's hour of gory. And the mob's self-appropriated mandate dissipates as the target of its excitement fades.Hedger's herd instinct established long ago that animals tend to flock together in the face of imminent danger. But they recline to their individuality as the common enemy disappears. This is how elected politicians and those who aspire for elective leadership are behaving.
Source : AllAfrica | 12-Apr-2007 07:06
Somalia: Thousands Flee Battle in Restless Capital
An estimated 400,000 somalis have been displaced since the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) backed by the Ethiopian army entered Mogadishu last December to eject the Islamic Courts Union (ICU).
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Apr-2007 12:10
Somalia: DBG Aids Banadir Hospital
Daryeel Bulsho Guud better known as DBG which is a humanitarian agency based in Somalia's capital city delivered much needed aid to Banadir mother and child hospital which is the major health facilitate in the war ravaged capital of Somalia.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Apr-2007 01:06
Somalia: Meeting Over Mogadishu Crisis Postponed
The meeting which supposed to be held today by the traditional elders of Hawiye tribe and the Ethiopian military officials was postponed to Tuesday.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Apr-2007 00:51
East Africa: Somalia, Uganda, and Ethiopia 'Risking War Crime Charges'
Uganda, Ethiopia and the Somali Transitional Government have been accused of aiding, abetting and committing alleged war crimes in war-torn Somalia, according to a panel of European Union layers. Reports of the attacks, over the last one week, have prompted the EU Commission's senior adviser on security for Somalia to send a letter to Eric van der Linden, the commission's head of delegation in Kenya, on April 2.
Source : AllAfrica | 09-Apr-2007 00:47