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The deteriorating security situation in Somalia poses a serious threat to the delivery of humanitarian aid to millions of desperate people in the Horn of Africa country, the Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned in his latest report to the Security Council today.
Life imprisonment, maximum sentence envisaged by the Rwandan penal code, was requested Tuesday against the former Minister for Justice, Agnes Ntamabyariro, on trial in Rwanda since June 2006 after being arrested in Zambia in 1997.
A telephone call between President Bush and a world leader is a common enough event to not merit much attention, but when the president called Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi November 17, it represented a remarkable turnaround in U.S.-Libyan relations.
THE seizure this week of a Saudi oil tanker by Somali pirates should serve as a wake-up call to the Somali crisis that has been neglected by the world for close to two decades.
A non-governmental organization, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) yesterday threw its weight behind the Brigadier-General Bala Usara-led military Court Martial that recently meted out justice to six military operatives for supplying sophisticated weapons illegally to militants in the Niger Delta.
Police in Sudan arrested more than 60 journalists during a protest against media censorship, report the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and news sources. Riot police armed with canes and shields rounded up the journalists outside parliament on 17 November and took them to a police ...
Somalia's Islamist rebels attacked the presidential compound and a major base for Ethiopian troops in the capital Mogadishu, Radio Garowe reported Wednesday.
South African ports will be able to cope with swelling numbers of ships rounding the Cape as they seek to steer clear of pirate-infested waters off the Somali coast and stand to benefit from increased business, the National Ports Authority has said.
Although the Directorate of Intelligence and Security has been functional for about 7 months, the tribunal that is set to oversee public complaints against the organ is yet to meet.
On Monday, November, 2008, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations, appointed former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, as the Special Envoy to help broker peace in crisis-riddled Democratic Republic of Congo. An excited Obasanjo has since jumped headlong into the assignment.
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has rejected fourth application of the prosecutor to transfer genocide- accused persons to stand for trial in Kigali for alleged roles in the 1994 genocide.
HIV/AIDS is the greatest challenge the army faces, the President has said.
The naval authorities yesterday assured Nigerians particularly residents of the Apapa area of Lagos that there would not be a re-occurrence of the January 27 2002 bomb blast at Ikeja Military cantonment following fears that the arms and ammunition at its ordnance depot in Apapa have expired and might detonate anytime.
The naval authorities yesterday assured Nigerians particularly residents of the Apapa area of Lagos that there would not be a re-occurrence of the January 27 2002 bomb blast at Ikeja Military cantonment following fears that the arms and ammunition at its ordnance depot in Apapa have expired and might detonate anytime.
Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic has crossed into South Africa, with four confirmed diagnoses in a total of 68 suspected cases in the border town of Musina, according to aid workers.
Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of Nigeria and newly-appointed U.N. envoy in the Great Lakes Region, has visited both Congolese president Joseph Kabila and CNDP rebel leader General Laurent Nkunda, attempting to chisel the outlines of a new peace in the region.
Khartoum has long maintained a studious silence over its suspicions that the Kenyan government was assisting the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), which governs the semi-autonomous south of Sudan to replenish its armament.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his concern at new acts of piracy off the Somali coast this week amid reports of a series of attacks or attempting hijackings in recent days in a region already notorious for the practice.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged all sides to the Darfur conflict to refrain from hostilities as the United Nations tries to verify "troubling reports" of aerial bombings by Sudanese military forces and renewed fighting in recent days across the war-torn region.
Soaring insecurity in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has raised fears of a new wave of sexual violence in a region termed "the worst place in the world to be a woman" by aid workers.
The top United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today expressed hope that the Security Council will shortly approve a request for 3,000 additional troops to buttress blue helmets already on the ground in the country's east, the scene of fierce recent conflict.
AN Army Major and five other soldiers have been jailed for life for selling over 7,000 arms of various descriptions to the Niger Delta militants.
The joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) is trying to confirm reports received from various sources that Sudanese military planes bombed an area in the war-torn region in recent days.
Today U.S. Senators Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Sam Brownback (R-KS) introduced a bipartisan resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) following escalating violence in the country.
MONUC has markedly stepped up its military presence in North Kivu, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for the DRC, Alan Doss told on 19 November 2008, during the weekly press conference.
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