Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony's failure to sign a peace deal in April drove a nail into the coffin of the Juba peace process—a process that is grinding to an unsuccessful end.[1]
Public Relations Officer of the Ekiti Police Command, Mr Mike Akindipe has disclosed that the force has seized a semi-automatic pump action gun belonging to the the Deputy Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Mr Saliu Adeoti.
Angolan deputy minister of Defence, Gaspar Santos Rufino, said Wednesday in Luanda that the Stand-by Brigade of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) is "an instrument of great value for the support to peacekeeping missions and other operations."
At least 13 people including a senior Islamic Courts militia commander were killed yesterday in heavy battles in a remote part of central Somalia, witnesses and local sources reported.
The Commander of the Land Forces, Lt. Gen. Katumba Wamala, yesterday had a new directive for senior army officers- to stop traveling cheap using bodabodas (motorcycles).
The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel leader, Joseph Kony, will meet the chief mediator, Dr Riek Machar, this Saturday on the Sudan-Congo border, his key negotiator, has said.
Armed men claiming to represent the rebel group Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) attacked twenty villagers from Tampe 15 km east of the regional capital Ziguinchor on 7 May and hacked each of their left ears with machetes,
Ethiopian troops in central Somalia were ambushed Wednesday as they withdrew from one town and were heading back towards the Ethiopian border, locals said.
THE Zimbabwe National Army has issued a statement responding to allegations that soldiers were encouraging and perpetuating political violence that the opposition says has claimed the lives of 25 people.
The claims earlier this week that Kenya's counter-terrorism authorities fear there could be a terrorist attack in the near future should draw our attention to at least two important factors relating to national security.
A provincial commission of disarmament of citizens in illegal possession of guns in the southern Huila Province was officially presented to the public on Wednesday, in Lubango City, at a press conference.
The commitment of President Yar'Adua's administration to give urgent priority to the problems in the Niger Delta has given impetus to hopes that a peaceful settlement might finally be in sight for the troubled region.
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has denounced the killing of one of its truck drivers in Somalia - the second incident of its kind this year - by militiamen who stopped the agency's food convoy at an illegal
