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United Nations-backed talks aimed at bringing an end to the deadly conflict between the Government and rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been focusing on security matters, including a possible ceasefire, since resuming earlier this week in Nairobi, a senior official said today.
The latest round of United Nations-supported Government-rebel political negotiations seeking to quell the violence engulfing the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continued today, with the co-chair reporting slow but steady progress.
Attempts to charge Sudan's leaders with war crimes in Darfur have dramatically changed the country's political scene, says a new report by the British think tank Chatham House.
In 2003, two journalists from Radio-Télévision Libre des Milles Collines were convicted of war crimes in the Rwanda genocide - illustrating the dangerous role media can play by relaying hate speech or rumours during times of violent conflict.
The UN Secretary General's special envoy, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, Thursday reiterated his optimism that peace will ultimately come to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The United Nations Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals has declared this year (2009) as the "Year of the Gorilla."The declaration is in a bid to help save our endangered 'primate cousins', the gorillas, from extinction.
A United Nations team will head to the Horn of Africa next week to explore how the world body can support the African Union (AU) peacekeeping force in Somalia, which has seen an upsurge in violence in recent months despite the signing of a UN-facilitated peace accord last June.
The President of the fourth Republic of Ghana, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills has assured the business community in the country of a massive support, as well as commitment to strengthen local businesses in the country.
While commending the parties to the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended the long-running north-south civil war in Sudan for the progress achieved so far, the United Nations today marked the fourth anniversary of the signing of the pact by urging them to redouble their efforts on key goals such as elections and border demarcation.
On 8 January 2008, a graduation ceremony marked the end of a five week MONUC training programme for 70 DRC Armed Forces (FARDC) officers from the 16th Integrated Battalion, at Luberizi military training camp in South Kivu province, 47 km north of Uvira.
UGANDA is to benefit from the World Bank's $2b (sh3,960b) facility for speeding up grants and long-term interest-free loans to help the world's poorest countries cope with the global financial crisis. Uganda is among the world's 78 poorest countries.
Learning, and adaptation, are the two most important factors governing the development process in both the animal and human worlds.
Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Thursday said his organization is working with the Mano River Union (MRU) to create job opportunities for youths in Sierra Leone.
A new report issued by WHO and UNICEF indicates that more than 2,000 children die everyday worldwide, as a result of unintentional or accidental injuries.
VICE President Goodluck Jonathan has been touring the venues Nigeria will present for the Under 17 World Cup the country will host later this year.
The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon has appointed 64-year-old Joseph Masanche of Tanzania, ad litem (temporary) Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) effective January, this year, as part of efforts to bridge gap of seven judges who left the UN court last December.
Genocide-accused Lieutenant Colonel Tharcisse Muvunyi's lead counsel, William Taylor, has opposed to prosecution summoning new witnesses when the defendant's re-trial, as ordered by the UN Appeals court, opens on Monday before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), reports Hirondelle Agency.
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) says the number of suspected cases of cholera in Zimbabwe has now reached almost 36,000 while nearly 1,780 people have died from the infection since the outbreak began over five months ago.
Despite some problems, voter identification and registration in Côte d'Ivoire have been positive overall in the run-up to elections, a key element in resolving a political crisis that in 2002 divided the West African country into a rebel-held north and Government-controlled south, a top United Nations official said today.
Fifty people were feared to have been killed and at least nine abducted in attacks on villages in southwest Sudan, near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo (in DRC), locals said.
The latest round of the United Nations-supported dialogue between the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a leading rebel group entered into its substantive phase today, in a bid to quell the violence engulfing the vast nation's east.
The official death toll as a result of the cholera outbreak has continued to rise, and in less than a week the figure has increased by more than a 100 reported deaths.
The 2009 academic year is off to a rocky start with school doors remaining firmly closed this week, after an announcement by Zimbabwe's education minister that schools will only open in two weeks time.
A top official aid worker with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has been shot and killed by unidentified gunmen in Daynile district in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday, witnesses told Shabelle radio
Ali Moussa Iye is the Chief, Inter cultural Dialogue Section of UNESCO, where he coordinates the slave routes projects and Journal History of Africa. Last year, when Arts and Book Review encountered him in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he had come to participate at the Cetre for Black African Art and Civilization, CBBAC 's international conference held at the State University of Rio De Janeiro, he ...
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