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UN Secretary General begins visit to Nepal
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu Friday evening for a two-day visit. During his stay in Nepal, Ban is scheduled to meet Nepalese President Ram Baran Yadav, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav and other politicians. Talks with Nepalese leaders...

UN Secretary General begins visit to Nepal
 

Thousands arrive in Congo refugee camps as battle rages
 Around 30,000 people fleeing battles between United Nations-backed Congolese troops and Tutsi rebels are pouring into refugee camps near the eastern city of Goma, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said Wednesday as fierce fighting continued. UN helicopter gunships and armoured vehicles have been supporting Congolese troops north of Goma,...

Thousands arrive in Congo refugee camps as battle rages

Former FARC member charged in kidnapping of US hostages
A former leader of Colombia's largest rebel group has been charged in connection with the kidnapping of three US contractors who were rescued from the Colombian jungle last month, the US Justice Department announced Monday. Heli Mejia Mendoza, known by the alias Martin Sombra, could face up to 60 years in prison after being...

Former FARC member charged in kidnapping of US hostages

Seven civilians killed in clashes in Pakistan's Swat valley
Seven civilians were killed Thursday in fresh clashes between government forces and Taliban fighters in Pakistan's troubled Swat valley, media reports said. One mortar round missed its target in the Deolai area of Swat and hit a house, killing seven members of the same family, including five children. The house was completely...

Seven civilians killed in clashes in Pakistan's Swat valley

U.S. Troops Leave Afghan Base
U.S. and Afghan troops have left an isolated village in eastern Afghanistan where militants murdered nine U.S. soldiers and injured a dozen more on Sunday, officials said on Wednesday. According to BBC, a statement informed that the base had been provisional and that customary patrols in the region would be upheld. However, local...

U.S. Troops Leave Afghan Base

Columbian Forces Rescue 15 Hostages, Including Ingrid Betancourt
Columbian commandos disguised as rebels rescued 15 hostages on Wednesday, including Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian politician and three U.S. defense contractors held by leftist rebels in a heroic action that blew away the plans of the country's largest anti-government force. The 46-year-old presidential candidate Ingrid...

Columbian Forces Rescue 15 Hostages, Including Ingrid Betancourt

New Tensions between Russia and Georgia
On Friday, Russia claimed to have captured a Georgian spy of Russian citizenship, whose main goal was to destabilize the region in Southern Russia. This represents the proof that the Georgian secret services are involved in “disruptive terrorist activities” in North Caucasus, as Federal Security Service (FSB) informed. It is...

New Tensions between Russia and Georgia

Today is Tuesday, April 29
the 120th day of 2008 with 246 to follow.The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1863; bandleader and composer Edward Kennedy "Duke"...

Today is Tuesday, April 29

Two Policemen Killed in Sri Lanka while Escorting Japanese Officials
Two Sri Lankan police were killed in a claymore mine explosion while escorting a Japanese official on a visit in eastern Sri Lanka, a region recaptured from Tamil rebels. It had been under the control of separatist rebels for more that 25 years. The Japanese aid convoy was visiting an agricultural irrigation project in Vavunathivu...

Two Policemen Killed in Sri Lanka while Escorting Japanese Officials

Oil Reaches Peak Price
Although only a fraction of global oil supply could be immediately threatened by a Turkish incursion into northern Iraq, the result of any conflict might escalate and disrupt the flow from the Middle East. The effect of the dispute was magnified in oil markets as it came against a backdrop of tightening supply, said Paul...

Oil Reaches Peak Price

Human Rights Watch Denounces War Crimes in Somalia
A report released by the US-based group Human Rights Watch holds responsible Ethiopian, Somali, and insurgent forces for severe violations of the laws of war that have resulted in heavy civilian casualties. The 113-page report called "Shell-Shocked: Civilians under siege in Mogadishu" refers to the fights...

Human Rights Watch Denounces War Crimes in Somalia
 

US chopper down, 3 US-led soldiers killed in Afghan attacks
US military spokesmen confirmed that Taliban rebels shot down a US helicopter in central Afghanistan Monday, while three US-led soldiers died in suicide and roadside attacks elsewhere in the country, officials said. The helicopter crew engaged with Taliban fighters on the ground in Wardak province, about 50 kilometres west of Kabul...

US chopper down, 3 US-led soldiers killed in Afghan attacks

Bus Blast in Philippine; 7 People Killed
The troubled south of Philippine was the target of an attack. The crime gang put a bomb inside a bus in Digos city and killed six people on Monday. On Tuesday, the officials in Philippine said that the attack hadn’t been planned by the Muslim separatist rebels.The Metro Shuttle bus attack might have been created by a gang called Al...

Bus Blast in Philippine; 7 People Killed

McCain to roar into motorcycle haven in South Dakota
Senator John McCain, 71, heads to the unlikely town of Sturgis, South Dakota, on Monday to rub elbows with the rowdy tattooed rebels of the American roads at a campground rock concert. With a population of 780,000, South Dakota on the Great Plains is hardly an election-day prize for either McCain's Republican Party or rival...

McCain to roar into motorcycle haven in South Dakota

Another Uribe ally arrested for alleged paramilitary ties
A Colombian political leader from President Alvaro Uribe's ruling coalition was arrested Friday for alleged illegal contact with right-wing paramilitaries. Senator Carlos Garcia, who leads the National Unity Party, was taken into custody by police in the northern city of Santa Marta on a warrant from the supreme court in Bogota....

Another Uribe ally arrested for alleged paramilitary ties

President accuses EU, US of meddling in Nicaragua's politics
President Daniel Ortega accused the European Union of interfering in Nicaragua's domestic politics and supporting the opposition against him. He called on his supporters Thursday night at a rally in Juigalpa in central Nicaragua to defend his government 'against the great capital' and accused the European Union and the United...

President accuses EU, US of meddling in Nicaragua's politics

Betancourt's voice calls upon Colombian rebels to demobilize
Colombian authorities started Tuesday to broadcast in the country's jungles the voice of rescued hostage Ingrid Betancourt, inviting leftist rebels to demobilize and recover their freedom. Former presidential candidate Betancourt - a hostage of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) from February 2002 until last...

Betancourt's voice calls upon Colombian rebels to demobilize

US Charges Russian Smuggler with Four Counts of Terrorism
An alleged Russian arms dealer was arrested in Thailand in March in an operation by US agents who pretended to be Colombian rebels who wanted to buy weapons. Viktor Bout was called the world’s biggest illegal arms dealer. The alleged arms smuggler, dubbed “The Merchant of Death,” was charged with four counts of terrorism; he...

US Charges Russian Smuggler with Four Counts of Terrorism

Bush Expects More From NATO
US President George W Bush met with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at his residence in Texas to discuss pressing security issues in the Middle East. During the meeting he made a call to members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to assume more responsibility in the fight against Taliban insurgents and boost their...

Bush Expects More From NATO
 

UN to transfer 60,000 displaced Congolese to new camps
Continuing fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has prompted the UN to make plans to transfer 60,000 displaced people to a new camp farther away from the front lines, officials said Friday. The new site is located about 15 kilometres to the south-west of the existing camps. Most of the transferees will have to make...

UN to transfer 60,000 displaced Congolese to new camps

German president to visit Nigeria
German President Horst Koehler leaves Friday on a six-day visit to Nigeria, during which he will take part in a conference on Africa and hold political discussions with his hosts. The German-sponsored fourth Africa Forum of the Partnership with Africa initiative is likely to be overshadowed by fighting between government forces and...

German president to visit Nigeria

German foreign minister bound for Pakistan and Gulf
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was flying to Pakistan Monday at the start of a four-day diplomatic tour that will also take in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The onslaught of terrorist attacks and the growing financial crisis in Pakistan are expected to dominate his talks with Pakistan's new president,...

German foreign minister bound for Pakistan and Gulf

German foreign minister bound for Pakistan and Gulf
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was flying to Pakistan Monday at the start of a four-day diplomatic tour that will also take in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The onslaught of terrorist attacks and the growing financial crisis in Pakistan are expected to dominate his talks with Pakistan's new president,...

German foreign minister bound for Pakistan and Gulf

Weakened Czech leader faces no-confidence vote
Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek's government faced a parliamentary confidence motion Wednesday, just as the Czech Republic prepares to take over the EU presidency in January. The left-leaning opposition sought the vote on ousting the government after Topolanek's Civic Democrats, in power since January 2007, were weakened by a defeat in...

Weakened Czech leader faces no-confidence vote

Turkey says 35 PKK killed in latest clashes
The Turkish military on Friday said 35 Kurdish separatists had been killed in clashes this week on Mount Cudi in the southeastern province of Sirnak. A General Staff spokesman told reporters that the number of Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) deaths was learnt through intercepted PKK communications. Recent weeks have seen an increase...

Turkey says 35 PKK killed in latest clashes

Sri Lanka Bears 27 People Dead After Tiger Attack
Officials stated that a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber caused an entire blast in the main building of the opposition party in Sri Lanka on Monday. The explosion killed nearly 27 people, among which there was a retired senior general. The attack occurred in the town of Anuradhapura and it seems that it represented an act of revenge against...

Sri Lanka Bears 27 People Dead After Tiger Attack

French to send more equipment, men to Afghanistan
France will deploy aditional military equipment to Afghanistan as well as about 100 more soldiers to service it, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Monday ahead of a parliamentary debate of the country's presence in the country. The materiel will include helicopters, drones, surveillance equipment and mortars, Fillon told a special...

French to send more equipment, men to Afghanistan

Brown dismisses leadership criticism amid signs of party rebellion
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Wednesday dismissed growing unrest over his leadership within the ruling Labour Party by saying he was focusing on the bigger issues posed by the current economic challenges. "What the prime minister is doing is focusing on the big issues facing the country and by far the biggest issue facing...

Brown dismisses leadership criticism amid signs of party rebellion

Saakashvili orders full mobilization against rebel region
Heavy fighting raged as Georgian troops surrounded the capital of its separatist region of South Ossetia, and President Mikheil Saakashvili accused Russia of arming the rebels and bombarding its territory. Russia said Georgia had launched a "dirty adventure" and warned of unspecified retaliation, the foreign ministry said in...

Saakashvili orders full mobilization against rebel region

Ingrid Betancourt On Her Way To France
Ingrid Betancourt, the politician rescued from the Columbian captors that were holding her hostage, is being flown in a French government jet aircraft to Paris, where she is due to meet the president, Nicolas Sarkozy. President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has been blamed for attempting to take advantage of the rescue in spite of his lack...

Ingrid Betancourt On Her Way To France

Sarkozy wins political victory with Betancourt release
The Colombian security forces may have freed Ingrid Betancourt from captivity at the hands of FARC rebels, but French President Nicolas Sarkozy seems to have won a political victory from the undercover operation. 'Since Sarkozy took things in hand, everything gained momentum and today my mother is here,' Betancourt's overjoyed...

Sarkozy wins political victory with Betancourt release

Macedonia Votes, Violence Erupts
Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski has claimed victory for his centre-right party in Macedonia’s general elections that were marred by alleged fraud and ethnic violence. “In most parts the vote was fair and democratic, but sadly in one part there were irregularities,” Gruevski was quoted by Reuters as saying. “I will do...

Macedonia Votes, Violence Erupts

Russia’s New President Medvedev Sworn In
Dmitry Medvedev was sworn in Wednesday as Russian president by his powerful mentor, Vladimir Putin, AFP reports. The inauguration of Russia’s new president took place at midday in the Andreyevsky hall of the Kremlin palace. The question is whether the 55-year-old ex-KGB officer, who led Russia for eight years, is willing to...

Russia’s New President Medvedev Sworn In

Western Powers Cricise Russia over Abkhazia
The United States, Britain, Germany and France mentioned they were “highly concerned” about Russia’s moves, BBC News reports. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered last week to forge closer links with Abkhazia and South Ossetia angered Tbilisi. According to Russia’s Ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, called the request...

Western Powers Cricise Russia over Abkhazia

French Rescue Mission for FARC’s Hostage
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, also called People’s Army, a terrorist group self-proclaimed the Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerrilla organization, has captured around 750 hostages, holding them in Columbia’s jungles. Only six of them were released in the last three months. Both the United States and the...

French Rescue Mission for FARC’s Hostage

French President Meets Pope Benedict
Pope Benedict XVI Thursday met French President Nicolas Sarkozy for "cordial talks", which the Vatican said focused on the "future of Europe, Middle East conflicts, social and political problems in several African nations and crises involving hostages". The Vatican in a statement released after the meeting - the...

French President Meets Pope Benedict

Turkish Military Continues Operations Near Iraq Border, Two Rebels Killed
Two Kurdish rebels were killed in fighting in south-eastern Turkey as Turkish troops continued large-scale operations against a 50 to 60 strong group of Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) guerrillas, the Dogan news agency reported. According to a statement posted on the General Staff's website, the two PKK rebels were killed in a...

Turkish Military Continues Operations Near Iraq Border, Two Rebels Killed

Turkish Military Attacks PKK Rebels in Iraq
The Turkish military said on Saturday it had attacked a group of around 50 to 60 Kurdish rebels near the Turkish border with Iraq but it was not clear whether the operation in the province of Hakkari included cross-border raids. In a statement posted on its website, the Turkish General Staff said the operation was ordered after...

Turkish Military Attacks PKK Rebels in Iraq

Turkish Soldiers Die in Clashes With Kurdish Rebels
Four Turkish soldiers were killed Tuesday in a clash with Kurdish rebels in the south-east of the country as reports came in that Turkish warplanes had bombed empty villages in northern Iraq. The clash between Turkish forces and militants from the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) took place on Mount Gabor in the Turkish province of...

Turkish Soldiers Die in Clashes With Kurdish Rebels

Turkey Accuses EU of Harboring Kurdish Terrorists
In a nationally televised speech held on Saturday on prime time television, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that no EU country had extradited members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, despite labeling the PKK as a terrorist group. He did not name a specific country, although Turkey says the rebels take refuge and raise...

Turkey Accuses EU of Harboring Kurdish Terrorists

Iraqi Delegation to Visit Turkey
In a meeting held Thursday before a high-level Iraqi delegation, the Turkish president said Turkey is running out of patience and will not tolerate the use of Iraqi soil for the purpose of launching terrorist activities. The Turkish military, meanwhile, said troops had killed 30 Kurdish rebels who were preparing to attack a...

Iraqi Delegation to Visit Turkey

USA Comes In-Between Kurdish Rebels and Turkey
In a press release on Monday, The United States called on the Iraqi government to take "swift" action to stop Kurdish rebel attacks on Turkey and said it did not want to see the conflict widen along the border. According to White House spokesman Tony Fratto, The United States has stressed to Turkish, Iraqi, and Kurdish...

USA Comes In-Between Kurdish Rebels and Turkey

Taylor Appears in Front of The Hague Court
Liberia’s former leader Charles G Taylor appeared for the first time in front of The Hague court on Tuesday, after two boycotts.Taylor refused to attend the first two sessions and face charges of war crimes because he was afraid of an inequitable trial and his lawyers need more time to prepare the defence.The former president is accused...

Taylor Appears in Front of The Hague Court

Taylor Ignores Appeal Made by ICC Once More
Former Liberian President Charles Ghankay Taylor defied once more the International Criminal Court and failed to appear in front of it on Monday.Taylor is accused of no more than 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity following his actions during the Sierra Leone civil war between 1991-2002, when he allegedly aided...

Taylor Ignores Appeal Made by ICC Once More

Bomb Explosion Kills Five Persons In Ankara
A powerful explosion killed five people in the Turkish town of Ankara Tuesday afternoon, media in the country reported.An explosive device went off in a crowded area of the city, killing four Turks and a Pakistani citizen, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan informed from the site of the incident. 60 other people were injured by...

Bomb Explosion Kills Five Persons In Ankara
 

Congo clashes continue despite rebel leader's UN peace promise
The Congolese army and Tutsi rebels have been involved in some of the worst clashes for a week despite rebel leader Laurent Nkunda telling a United Nations envoy that he supports peace in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN said Monday. "Yesterday we had a lot of clashes in Riwindi (125 kilometres north of Goma, the...

Congo clashes continue despite rebel leader's UN peace promise

Aid not reaching Congo refugees stranded behind rebel lines
Emergency aid is not reaching many of the tens of thousands of civilians displaced by fighting between rebels and government troops in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned Wednesday. The World Food Programme (WFP) has provided food to the displaced living in refugee camps around Goma, the...

Aid not reaching Congo refugees stranded behind rebel lines

Summit leaders call for immediate DR Congo ceasefire
African leaders attending an emergency summit in Nairobi on the conflict currently engulfing the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have urged an immediate ceasefire and the extension of UN peacekeeping powers in the country. The summit also called for the creation of humanitarian corridors to help the hundreds of thousands of...

Summit leaders call for immediate DR Congo ceasefire

Congo summit announced for Friday as rebels clash with militia
A regional summit on the conflict in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo is to take place in Nairobi Friday, a Kenyan foreign ministry official said Wednesday as small-scale fighting between rebels and pro-government militia continued for a second day. "There will be a summit on Friday," Patrick Wamoto, Head of the...

Congo summit announced for Friday as rebels clash with militia

Calm returns to east Congo after four days of fighting
Calm has returned to the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a spokesman for the United Nations peacekeeping mission said Thursday after four days of fighting that saw Tutsi rebels come close to taking the city of Goma. General Laurent Nkunda, leader of the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), Wednesday...

Calm returns to east Congo after four days of fighting

Ugandan rebels sold abducted children to fight in Darfur
 Most of the estimated 30,000 children abducted by Ugandan rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) during its two- decade-long war with the government were sold to fight in Sudan's restive Darfur province, Uganda's Daily Monitor reported Wednesday. The children were first forced by the LRA to fight and commit atrocities. Afterward,...

Ugandan rebels sold abducted children to fight in Darfur

Four former Khmer Rouge jailed for murder of British demine
 A Cambodian court Tuesday found four former Khmer Rouge guerillas guilty of the 1996 kidnapping and murder of a British deminer and his Cambodian translator and sentenced them to 10 to 20 years in prison. Judge Iv Kim Sri of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court acquitted a fifth man because of a lack of evidence. Briton...

Four former Khmer Rouge jailed for murder of British demine

ICC calls for arrest of Ugandan LRA-leader Kony and commanders
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague Luis Moreno Ocampo on Monday renewed his call for the arrest of Joseph Kony, leader of the rebel group Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), and his commanders. The ICC said the decision to issue the call was taken following renewed attacks by the LRA against...

ICC calls for arrest of Ugandan LRA-leader Kony and commanders

Aid agency closes offices in Chad after armed robberies
 Aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has shut down two offices in eastern Chad and evacuated its staff after armed robberies, the charity said Thursday. MSF said that all activities in Ade and Goz Beida had been suspended indefinitely, leaving 70,000 people without access to health services. "The fact that MSF is being...

Aid agency closes offices in Chad after armed robberies

Diplomats concerned over flare up in Congo violence
Diplomats have expressed serious concern over recent fighting in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo and called on warring forces to respect a January ceasefire. Rebels aligned with rogue general Laurent Nkunda and government soldiers have been involved in firefights in the eastern North Kivu province. The United Nations'...

Diplomats concerned over flare up in Congo violence

Lobby group accuses Congolese army of working with rebels
The Democratic Republic of Congo's armed forces are undermining the prospects of peace by working alongside rebel groups to mine tin and gold in the east of the resource-rich African nation, independent watchdog Global Witness said Wednesday. The DR Congo's army (FARDC), supported by the United Nations peacekeeping force, is supposed...

Lobby group accuses Congolese army of working with rebels

Congo and UN send troops after Ugandan rebel leaderEds: Adds d
The United Nations and the Democratic Republic of Congo have started a military operation directed against Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), news reports said. Kony is refusing to sign a final peace deal after two years of negotiations and is believed to have been using the time to rearm. The...

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Rebels and army clash in east of Democratic Republic of Congo
Fighting has broken out between rebels and the army in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said. The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Congo (MONUC) said that rebels aligned with rebel General Laurent Nkunda and government soldiers exchanged fire for around eight hours in the North Kivu province on...

Rebels and army clash in east of Democratic Republic of Congo

Ugandan rebel leader holding out for local trial in peace talks
Joseph Kony, the leader of Uganda's notorious rebel Lord's Resistance Army, will only sign a final peace deal on Sunday if an international warrant for his arrest is dropped, the group's spokesman said Friday. "It is possible he (Kony) will sign, but he wants the International Criminal Court (ICC) to drop its arrest warrant...

Ugandan rebel leader holding out for local trial in peace talks

Nigeria to hand over disputed Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon
Nigeria was Wednesday preparing to officially hand over the disputed Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon on Thursday, ending a decades-long dispute marked by legal battles and sporadic violence. While the United Nations has hailed the peaceful solution, Nigerian militant groups in Bakassi have threatened to step up attacks on Cameroonian...

Nigeria to hand over disputed Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon

Human Rights Watch criticises Sudan's special courts
The civil rights group Human Rights Watch sharply criticised Wednesday the use of special courts in the Sudan, saying they were a 'charade' and fell short of 'even minimal fair trial standards.' In a statement, HRW called attention to the special courts which were set up to combat rebels, and which at the end of July sentenced 30...

Human Rights Watch criticises Sudan's special courts

ICC to prosecute Darfur rebels following Sudan's al-Bashir
The ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Thursday he will seek to prosecute rebel groups in Sudan's Darfur region just as he is prosecuting Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur's ethnic conflict. Moreno-Ocampo said the International Criminal Court (ICC) based at The...

ICC to prosecute Darfur rebels following Sudan's al-Bashir

Concerns over Darfur escalation after war crime charges
The official levelling of war crimes charges against Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir has been welcomed in many quarters, but fears remain the decision could cause an escalation of violence in Darfur and more misery for millions of long-suffering displaced Darfuris. International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis...

Concerns over Darfur escalation after war crime charges

Sudan Leader To Be Accused Of Genocide
U.N. officials and diplomats announced that the head prosecutor of the International Criminal Court would request a detain warrant on Monday for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, accusing him of genocide and crimes against humanity in the orchestration of a campaign of aggression that caused the deaths of hundreds of...

Sudan Leader To Be Accused Of Genocide

Tuareg Rebels Assail Mali Military Base
An army base situated in Abeibara, in Mali’s northern desert was attacked by Tuareg rebels, as government officials announced on Thursday. Seventeen rebels and fifteen soldiers were killed in the clashes, according to Reuters. Ethnic Tuareg rebels claim they have captured weapons, army vehicles and sixty soldiers. For the moment,...

Tuareg Rebels Assail Mali Military Base

Conflicts between Sudan and Chad Continue
A day after Darfur rebels attacked Sudan’s capital Khartoum, things continue to unfold with reactions on both sides. Darfur leader Khalil Ibrahim threatened Sudan with a follow up of the assaults. As a response, Sudan officials made public their intention to cut diplomatic relations with Chad, as they consider that the governing...

Conflicts between Sudan and Chad Continue

Sudan Cuts Diplomatic Relations with Chad after Rebel Attack
Sudanese authorities said the attack on the Sudanese capital by Darfur rebels was supported by Chadian President Idriss Deby. As a result, they cut diplomatic relations with Chad on Sunday (local time). Darfur rebels’ conflict with Sudanese troops erupted in a suburb of Khartoum on Saturday in an attempt to seize power. The attack was...

Sudan Cuts Diplomatic Relations with Chad after Rebel Attack

Somali Rebels Kill Four Teachers
Heavily armed Islamist militants took over a central Somali town Sunday and killed two British and two Kenyan teachers, the Associated Press reports. It appears that three of the victims are women and the fourth victim is reported to be a Somali man with British citizenship, returned to his hometown in order to build a...

Somali Rebels Kill Four Teachers

Comoros Demands France Hands Over Rebel Leader
Comoros demanded on Thursday that France extradite rebel leader Mohamed Bacar, who is wanted by the Indian Ocean Archipelago for crimes against humanity. Troops had to fire teargas in order to stop demonstrations against the former colonel. The self-declared leader of the Anjouan Island fled to the French-run island of...

Comoros Demands France Hands Over Rebel Leader

Clooney and Friends Make Donation for Darfur
Not On Our Watch , a charitable group co-founded by Hollywood elite actors George Clooney, Don Cheadle, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, civil rights lawyer David Pressman and producer Jerry Weintraub has donated $500,000 to the United Nations World Food Program(WFP) to help stop hunger in Darfur, an affiliated organization said on...

Clooney and Friends Make Donation for Darfur

UN Chief Says Darfur Peacekeeping Force Is at Risk
A UN peacekeeping force for the war-torn Sudanese Darfur region could be derailed before it even gets started over of a lack of helicopters to support the troops, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said. Ban warned that failure to provide an adequate peace force could doom an already shaky peace process under way in the region, and...

UN Chief Says Darfur Peacekeeping Force Is at Risk

Rice Expresses Concern Over Africa's Conflicts
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with leaders from troubled African nations Wednesday, calling for greater vigilance in keeping out "negative forces" from Congo and a robust peacekeeping force for war-torn Somalia. Rice's 24-hour visit to the vast Horn of Africa nation was meant to spur movement on...

Rice Expresses Concern Over Africa's Conflicts

Things Heat Up In Eastern Congo
Local authorities have reported that fighting has again erupted in eastern Congo's North Kivu province between forces loyal to dissident General Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese army. Rebels and Congo's armed forces on Monday battled for control of key towns in North Kivu province. Congo's army attacked the rebel stronghold of...

Things Heat Up In Eastern Congo

Chad Fighting Raises Stakes of EU Peace Deployment
Statements released by aid officials and diplomats on Tuesday talked about the latest fighting in east Chad which has disrupted humanitarian operations and raised the risks for a European peacekeeping force due to deploy there soon to protect civilians. In the biggest clash for months between Chad's government army and eastern...

Chad Fighting Raises Stakes of EU Peace Deployment

Congo and Rwanda Unite Their Forces against Rebels
According to a joint statement released on Sunday, Congo has reached a deal with Rwanda to disarm Rwandan Hutu rebels on its soil, by force if necessary, in an effort to reduce tensions between the central African neighboring countries. The Hutu rebels, including former Rwandan soldiers and members of the militia known as the...

Congo and Rwanda Unite Their Forces against Rebels

Darfur Refugee Camp Attacked
According to a spokesman for the African Union said Saturday a number of people have died and others injured during recent violence at a camp in southern Darfur. The AU's Noureddine Mezni would not say exactly how many people were killed or injured in clashes Thursday at the Kalama refugee camp, which is southeast of the South...

Darfur Refugee Camp Attacked

US Plane Has Unwelcome Greeting from Tuareg Rebels
According to Malian officials, Tuareg rebels fired on a US military plane hauling food supplies to Malian troops fighting the desert insurgents in the far north of the African country. The incident took place early Wednesday when the US aircraft was approaching a Malian army garrison at Tin-Zaouatene, situated in a deserted area...

US Plane Has Unwelcome Greeting from Tuareg Rebels

Security Council OKs Darfur Peacekeeping Force
The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted on Tuesday a resolution to create a peacekeeping force of up to 19,555 soldiers in Darfur. They will be aided by 3,772 police, alongside 19 police units of 140 people each. The peacekeeping force will be made up mostly of peacekeepers from Africa with backup from Asian troops.The resolution...

Security Council OKs Darfur Peacekeeping Force

Nigerian Security Forces Crack Down on Militants
The Niger Delta was stormed Thursday by numerous soldiers who have the mission of releasing 27 persons previously abducted by militants from a foreign oil flow station. Gunmen attacked Sunday an Italian oil flow station in the southern state of Bayelsa State, kidnapping eleven soldiers and 16 workers, without inflicting any damage...

Nigerian Security Forces Crack Down on Militants

Three Rebel Leaders Convicted in Sierra Leone for War Crimes
The war crimes trials went all the way to Sierra Leone, as the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone found three former leaders of a rebel group guilty of grave accusations like murder, rape and the use of children as soldiers.The ruling was passed down Wednesday and represents a break through for the west African nation, who has been...

Three Rebel Leaders Convicted in Sierra Leone for War Crimes

Somalia Rocked by Powerful Explosions
Somalia’s capital Mogadishu and the south-central city of Baidoa were seriously shaken by two blasts that killed more than nine people, media reported Friday. After the guns were silenced in Somalia, bomb attacks resumed bringing new turmoil in the African country. The first incident occurred late Thursday in Baidoa, where five people...

Somalia Rocked by Powerful Explosions

Sudan Agrees with International Intervention in Darfur
After a long period of negotiations with African Union and United Nations representatives, Sudan finally gave the green light for a joint peacekeeping force to enter the conflict-torn Darfur.Tuesday, a new round of talks took place at the African union administrative center in Addis Ababa, Sudanese, AU and UN officials discussing the...

Sudan Agrees with International Intervention in Darfur

Sudan Receives New Sanctions From US
Sudan’s economy is starting to cripple under heavy sanctions imposed by the United States after the Sudanese government failed to comply with international requirements regarding Darfur’s situation. “For too long, the people of Darfur have suffered at the hands of a government that is complicit in the bombing, murder, and rape...