Peace Negotiations
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 07:50
THE Senate is apparently about to discuss a motion to permit Kenya troops to go to South Sudan as peacekeepers. Yet there is no peace to keep in South Sudan. Fighting flared up in the key oil town of Bentiu yesterday.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 07:49
The army in South Sudan’s Western Bahr el Ghazal state on Monday vowed to promote and strengthen cooperation for peaceful coexistence among the population, citing its role as an institution set up to protect lives and properties.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 06:43
The official did not provide reasons for the rescheduling, but said Monday’s incident “was the direct result of ongoing incitement and glorification of terrorism that we see in the official Palestinian media and education system.”
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 10:45
Head of the African Union Election Observation Mission (AU EOM), Joaquim Chissano, called on all voters to preserve the peaceful electoral atmosphere that has prevailed in Guinea-Bissau.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 07:02
That meeting was “difficult” and there are still “big gaps” between the sides, the Palestinian official said.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 10:17
Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby report that I have issued an Executive Order (the "order") declaring a national emergency with respect to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by the situation in and in relation to South Sudan.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 09:39
On Tuesday, April 8, U.S. Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Rashad Hussain traveled to the Central African Republic (C.A.R.) with an interreligious delegation of leaders from the United States representing several faiths to demonstrate solidarity between religious communities in the U.S. and the people of the C.A.R.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 09:34
After years of living in the inhospitable jungle of the Central African Republic, some members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Uganda's notorious rebel movement, have expressed their will to surrender their arms and return to their homes in northern Uganda.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 09:07
Minni Arko Minawi, the head of the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM-MM) and the Deputy President of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) has described President Omar Al Bashir’s invitation to the rebel movements to come to Khartoum and offering them guarantees to attend the national dialogue as “illogical”.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 08:59
The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) is working with the South African government and the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) through its Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa (UNREC) to help African states comply with their international obligations on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.