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Southern Sudan might break away from the north if the "troubled relationship" between Sudan's dominant centre and regions on its periphery are not resolved, a new report has warned.
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.
Thousands of civilians have been displaced in another deadly attack by suspected Lord's Resistance Army rebels in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to local sources.
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).
"Without swift, decisive action by the international community there is a danger that the peace agreement will collapse and violence will escalate in Sudan," Gerrit Noltensmeier, the special representative for Sudan of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) said in a statement to mark the anniversary of the signing of the pact.
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.
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.
In keeping faith with his promise to turn around Delta State, standing on the tripod of peace and security, human capital development as well as infrastructure improvement, the state government has reiterated its commitment to its dreams.
In Chatham House's new report evaluating Sudan's prospects under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace agreement (CPA), which brought to an end two decades of war between northern and southern Sudan, Edward Thomas examines the way in which the accord has marginalized other conflicts of interest in the country, such as those between the central government in Khartoum, controlled by the National Congress ...
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.
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.
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
High ranking officers in National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) a rebel movement in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have pledged their loyalty to their leader, General Laurent Nkunda, and refuted recent claims that he had been overthrown by his Chief of Staff, Gen. Bosco Ntaganda.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has thanked United States President George W. Bush for his country's recent commitment to airlift supplies urgently needed by the joint United Nations-African Union (AU) peacekeeping force in the strife-torn Darfur region of Sudan.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has informed the Security Council of his intention to appoint Christopher Ross of the United States as his Personal Envoy for Western Sahara and Michael von der Schulenburg as his Executive Representative for the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL).
At least six soldiers were killed Wednesday in Somalia's war-torn capital Mogadishu after suspected insurgents threw hand grenades, Radio Garowe reports.
Hawiye traditional elders denounced Ethiopia for not fulfilling a previous promise to pull out its troops from Somalia on Wednesday.
ONE UPDF soldier in the Africa Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) was killed yesterday when militants attacked their convoy.
The creation of the new Niger Delta ministry is, undeniably, a giant step in the right direction, and this column must commend President Yar' Adua for taking this bold step.
The Israeli invasion of Gaza is a case of a school-yard bully going after the little guy, pummeling him bloody just because he can.
TWENTY fighters of the Lord's Resistance Army have surrendered to the Congolese army as the three-week multinational assault on the rebels' hideouts in the Garamba jungles continues.
The United Nations refugee agency has reached towns in the strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the scene of bloody attacks carried out by the notorious Ugandan rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
Two new contingents of Nigerian police officers trained in high-risk operations have joined the joint United Nations-African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission in the war-ravaged Darfur region of Sudan.
An AU peace keeper was killed and another one was injured in a landmine blast that hit an AMISOM convoy in Mogadishu, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
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