Border Control
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 09:42
Kenya project could offer South Sudan an outlet for oil exports but leave Khartoum out in the cold.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 09:24
Yet, the decision was not prompted by Russia's pressure or economic gains, but rather the small country's safety concerns.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 08:45
Conflict reignited in mid-2012 in eastern Congo with the rapid rise of the Mouvement du 23Mars (M23), a militia that the United Nations says has received significant support from the government of Rwanda.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 07:41
Residents of El Salam camp for the displaced are complaining about the treatment by security forces stationed at the gate of nearby Nyala, the capital of South Darfur. In Mershing, also in South Darfur, Sudanese Armed Forces troops, security forces, and the police besieged the town's market.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 07:37
President Paul Kagame has hit at the international community for trying to forget the bad things that the FDLR (a genocidal force in the jungles of Congo) has done, and focusing on minor issues.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 00:00
United States Secretary of State John Kerry visited Kabul over the weekend in an attempt to work out a deal on keeping American and allied forces in the country after next year. Kerry worked out a preliminary deal – known as the Bilateral Security Agreement – with Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai that would allow a training force (likely of 5,000 to 10,000 foreign troops) in the country after the current combat mission (totaling about 87,000 troops) ends next year.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 00:00
Venezuela has agreed to free a U.S.-chartered oil survey ship and 36 crew members seized last week in a territorial dispute with neighbouring Guyana.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 00:00
Venezuelan Adm. Angel Belisario Martinez told reporters late Tuesday that the ship could leave "after a few more administrative steps." He gave no indication of how long that might take.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013 - 00:00
This Strategic Paper offers an overview of the scope and scale of organized crime in Latin America and Brazil more specifically. It critically reviews Brazil's normative and institutional responses.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013 - 10:01
The joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Sudan's western Darfur region says three Senegalese peacekeepers were killed and one injured in an attack by unidentified gunmen.