Border Control
Monday, August 26, 2013 - 09:12
22 Tajik and Afghan border guards completed a week-long training in the detection of forged travel documents and fight against illegal border crossing on Friday
Monday, August 26, 2013 - 08:44
The United States is alarmed by the escalating fighting between the M23 armed group and the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) in eastern Congo.
Monday, August 26, 2013 - 08:25
Allied Democratic Force (ADF), a Ugandan rebel group based in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is allegedly recruiting children as young as 10 years as child soldiers in their bid to topple the Ugandan government.
Monday, August 26, 2013 - 08:07
An unidentified gunmen looted the office of the American Refugee Committee (ARC) in neighbourhood of the airport in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state, on Saturday.
Monday, August 26, 2013 - 07:54
Congolese soldiers and rebel forces suffered heavy casualties on Sunday as they fought for a fifth day near the eastern city of Goma, a doctor near the front line said.
Monday, August 26, 2013 - 07:52
The UN has opened an investigation into reports that its troops killed two Congolese civilians during protests in the eastern city of Goma, amid fighting with rebels.
Monday, August 26, 2013 - 07:34
U.N. forces joined Congolese soldiers on the front line Saturday where they fought rebels in the country’s volatile east for hours, officials said, as border tensions escalated between Rwanda and Congo.
Friday, August 23, 2013 - 13:58
Palestinian Hamas urged Egypt on Wednesday to reopen the Rafah crossing with the Gaza Strip that was closed after a suspected militant attack on Egyptian policemen near the frontier earlier this week.
Friday, August 23, 2013 - 12:54
The death last year of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi marked the end of an era in Ethiopia. Fully half of the population has never known another leader or another style of governance, and his passing brought with it both hope and trepidation for the country's future. Ten months later, the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) remains firmly in control of all organs of government. This includes the Parliament, which selected a new Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, and Deputy Prime Minister, Demeke Mekonnen, during an extraordinary session on September 21, 2012, marking Ethiopia's first peaceful political transition in modern history. It is significant that neither Hailemariam nor Demeke is a member of the TPLF (Tigray People's Liberation Front), which led Ethiopia since the 1991 overthrow of the Mengistu communist regime, nor are they members of the Orthodox Church, unlike all their predecessors.
Friday, August 23, 2013 - 12:30
Last week, along with Acting Assistant Secretary Don Yamamoto, I attended a conference in Brussels where 80 nations came together to pledge support for Mali as it seeks a pathway back to democracy, peace and prosperity. President Traore of Mali began the meeting by thanking the international community for its help and expressing his gratitude for the fact that, in the north of Mali, people are no longer having their hands and feet cut off by terrorists, women are no longer being raped, and Islam is no longer being defamed as a tool of terrorists. In his speech, he emphasized that, "we must learn our lessons from bad governance and realize that the collapse of this house of cards endangered our people as well as the entire region." He commended all of us "to address the root causes of this crisis, with good governance as the first priority."