Conflict
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 07:45
The announcement, made late Tuesday by Justice Minister Paulino Wanawila, underscored the animosity that still reigns between government forces under President Salva Kiir and a loose coalition of rebel fighters seen as loyal to Kiir's sacked deputy, Riek Machar.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 07:41
The seven men appeared in apparent good health during a press conference at State House, Nairobi on Wednesday. Four leaders remain in custody in South Sudan, facing trial for attempting to topple President Salva Kiir after fighting broke out in the capital Juba on December 15
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 06:58
January 18th, a Greek shipping firm lost radio contact with one of its vessels, a Liberian-flagged, 75,000-ton oil tanker named Kerala, when it was just a few miles off the port of Luanda, Angola. What happened next is still in dispute. But maritime experts think the Kerala's disappearance marks a dangerous new escalation of the oil-driven piracy that has increasingly tormented mariners across the infamous Bight of Benin.
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 06:38
South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar has told the BBC that treason charges laid against him and some of his allies are "baseless".
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 12:05
The UN Security Council voted Tuesday to not only continue its peacekeepers’ mission in the tumultuous Central African Republic but to authorize the use of force by European Union troops there, the world body said.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 12:01
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to impose a travel ban on and freeze the assets of people suspected of war crimes in Central African Republic.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 11:57
South Sudan’s opposition force, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) has on Tuesday said SPLA soldiers loyal to president Salva kiir has committed serious crimes in Malakal, Bentiu, and Bor towns.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 08:43
"We agreed that we need to first of all strengthen cooperation with each other and increase pressure so that (the sides) more actively work together and seek a compromise," the source was quoted as saying.
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 08:32
“Every one of our borders is tested more than in the past,” he said. “The [neighboring] nations as we know them and the borders as we know them exist de jure but it is doubtful that they exist de facto.”
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 - 08:16
An appeal is made to the American-Armenians to call Members of the U.S. House and Senate panels responsible for writing the Fiscal Year 2015 bill to ask them to eliminate American aid to the Azerbaijani military.